PRIDE IN THE PAST

POWER OF THE PRESENT

FORCE OF THE FUTURE 2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

OCTOBER 8 - 10, 2015

Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort

Phoenix, Arizona

the missing link

in

healthcare

PRIDE IN THE PAST

POWER OF THE PRESENT

FORCE OF THE FUTURE

The Cummings Graduate Institute

for Behavioral Health Studies is an educational and

healthcare teaching program designed to be on the

cutting edge of advances in

mental and behavioral treatment interventions.

The Cummings Institute is dedicated to

preparing highly competent healthcare professionals to

deliver the highest quality of behavioral health services

as part of integrated healthcare teams.

Our innovative and practice-oriented teaching model is

based on the Biodyne Model and has three pillars:

medical literacy,

behavioral interventions,

and entrepreneurship.

We are committed to whole-person healthcare

and access to quality healthcare

for all people.

Who We Are

Program Overview The aim of this conference is to

exchange knowledge, experience, and

new ideas in the design and delivery of

integrated health care. The conference

will focus on four key themes:

Engagement and partnership with

patients, providers, and decision makers

Transforming care systems

Overcoming key barriers to

implementation of integration efforts, and

Entrepreneurial opportunities.

Location

The Conference will take place at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort, Arizona’s

premier Native American owned luxury Phoenix resort. Designed to be an authentic

representation of the Gila River Indian Community's heritage and culture, the

architecture, design, art and legends of the Pima (Akimel O'otham) and Maricopa (Pee

Posh) tribes are celebrated in every detail at our Phoenix resort. The AAA Four Diamond

resort includes Aji Spa with private pool and cafe, Whirlwind Golf Club with two 18-hole

Troon-managed golf courses and the only AAA Five-Diamond and Forbes Five Star award

restaurant in Arizona — Kai.

A group rate of $199 per night has

been arranged for attendees of the

Cummings Institute 2015 Fall

Conference. The rate is available

Wednesday, October 7 through

Sunday, October 11.

Please email Dr. Cara English at

cenglish@cummingsinstitute.com

for assistance with reservations.

PRE-CONFERENCE MEETINGS: Thursday, October 8 3:00 – 4:00 pm Cummings Graduate Institute Staff Meeting

Jackrabbit Room

4:00 – 6:00 pm Cummings Graduate Institute Faculty Meeting

Jackrabbit Room

6:00 – 9:00 pm Welcome Reception for Students, Faculty, and Staff

Beehive Patio

DAY 1: Friday, October 9 7:30 – 8:30 am Networking Breakfast

Jackrabbit Room

8:30 – 9:15 am

Welcome Janet Cummings, Psy.D

Keynote Address Nicholas Cummings, Ph.D, Sc.D

Jackrabbit Room

9:15 – 10:45 am Improving Healthcare in Oklahoma through Integrated Behavioral Health

Larry Ford and Leonard Fowler, Hands to Guide You Jackrabbit Room

11:00 am – 11:45 pm Lunch

Jackrabbit Room

12:00 – 4:30 pm Site Visits Integrative Health Center, University of Arizona

Head to Toe Integrated Pediatrics Specialty Care

4:30 – 5:30 pm Break

5:30 – 8:30 pm Dinner and Social

Rawhide Western Town and Steakhouse, Wild Horse Pass

DAY 2: Saturday, October 10 7:30 – 8:30 am Continental Breakfast

Jackrabbit Room

8:30 – 11:30 am Financial and Legislative Barriers to Integration Roundtable Discussion led by Cara English, DBH

Jackrabbit Room

12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch

Ko-Sin

1:00 – 4:00 pm Entrepreneurship Throwdown Eugene Furnace, DBH (C)

Jackrabbit Room

4:15 – 5:00 pm Conference Wrap-Up

Jackrabbit Room

2015 FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE

AGENDA

SESSION DESCRIPTIONS

2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Welcome Dr. Janet L. Cummings, Psy.D.

Keynote Address When It Comes to Innovation, All Textbooks Are Irrelevant

Dr. Nicholas A. Cummings, Ph.D., Sc.D., Founder, Chairman of the Board

Improving Healthcare in Oklahoma through Integrated Behavioral

Health Larry Ford and Leonard Fowler, Hands to Heal You

Larry and Leonard discuss their entrepreneurial venture in Oklahoma. Basing their business model on

the innovative Biodyne Model of Entrepreneurship, they have catalyzed innovations in integrated

healthcare delivery.

Financial and Legislative Barriers to Integration Dr. Cara English, DBH

Despite potential for improving health outcomes and reducing medical costs, integrated care faces

many challenges that prevent implementation for decision makers and independent providers. Health

professionals nationwide have encountered difficulties fiscally sustaining the integrated care model

due to reimbursement constraints. Merging behavioral health and medical fields together means over-

coming a host of barriers that include differences in the way the two fields operate, differing payment

systems, a lack of funding for the initiatives, and concerns about sharing information between behav-

ioral health and medical providers.

This session will provide opportunities for attendees to share strategies that effectively overcome or

work around these barriers, as well as approaches for addressing additional barriers and/or opportuni-

ties to participate in advocacy efforts.

Entrepreneurship Throwdown Eugene Furnace, DBH(C)

According to Jain & Tsang (2014), “[a]ll of us know that you have to be a little crazy to be an

entrepreneur.” This session opens the door to sharing wild ideas for disruptive innovation! Join us as

we fight the status quo, poke holes in opaque paths to entry and payment systems, and develop new

policies, technologies, and programs that respond to the unprecedented opportunities in healthcare

today. A DBH has the right kind of crazy to change our systems of care!

Site Visits Driving directions can be accessed via the QR code to the right.

Visit 1: University of Arizona Integrative Health Center

3033 N Central Avenue • Phoenix, AZ 85012

ihc.arizona.edu

A comprehensive primary care center in downtown Phoenix, the UofA IHC was designed and envisioned

by Dr. Andrew Weil to be the world’s leading integrative medicine institution. The Integrative Health

Center is an affiliation between the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (AzCIM) and District Medical

Group (DMG).

DMG is a not-for-profit entity consisting of over 350

providers representing all the major medical and

surgical specialties as well as subspecialties.

DMG physicians have received several outstanding

awards, including Phoenix Magazine's "Best Doctors in

the Valley" numerous times. Many DMG physicians are

recognized locally, nationally and internationally as

innovative leaders.

Launched in October 2012, the Integrative Health Center is DMG's first step into Integrative Medicine,

and it is the first primary care health center that follows the vision of the Arizona Center for Integrative

Medicine.

Visit 2: Head2Toe Therapy, Inc.

5314 North 7th Street • Phoenix, AZ 85014

headtotoeinc.com

SITE VISITS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9

Head 2 Toe’s new 27,000 square-foot Therapy Center is

unique in the Southwest and is specifically designed from the

ground up for children with special needs. Professionally

painted wall murals are a delight to view from every direction.

Multiple play areas encourage motor function skills and

engage the children to learn as they play. Special treatment

rooms for a full array of therapies focus on every child’s

specific needs. Head 2 Toe offers multiple therapies all in one

location, allowing parents or guardians to avoid multiple trips

and providing opportunities to run errands or enjoy some

quiet time.

PRESENTERS

2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Nicholas A. Cummings, Ph.D., Sc.D. is a former President of the American

Psychological Association. For half a century not only was he able to see the

future of professional psychology, he helped create it. A recipient of the American

Psychology Foundation Gold Medical for a Lifetime of Achievement in Practice

Award, he has received over 30 awards from the APA, the National Science

Foundation, the U.S. Congress, and even the University of Athens. Dr. Cummings

launched the professional school movement by founding the four campuses of

the California School of Professional Psychology. As Chief of Mental Health for

the Kaiser Permanente health system, he developed an integrated behavioral

health treatment model and conducted the medical cost offset research that

demonstrated psychological interventions save medical and surgical dollars.

Foreseeing the industrialization of healthcare, he founded American Biodyne, the nation's first and only

psychology-driven managed behavioral health organization which, before his stepping aside, grew to 25

million covered lives in all 50 states, with 10,000 employed psychologists and social workers. Other

organizations he founded are the National Academies of Practice, the National Council of Professional

Schools of Psychology, and the American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association. He was founder

of the Nicholas A. Cummings Doctor of Behavioral Health progam (DBH degree) at Arizona State

University with Provost Elizabeth Capaldi before withdrawing it after seven years. In 2015, at age 91,

with his daughter Dr. Janet Cummings and an intrepid team which includes Dr. Cara English, he founded

the Cummings Graduate Institute, the first provisionally-licensed, free-standing university in 23 years.

Dr. Cummings has written over 450 journal articles and 51 books, 11 of them with his daughter, and 1

of which has been published in Mandarin and is now in 1700 universities in China. He continues as

Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Nevada, Reno, and Board Chair of the

Cummings Foundations.

Janet Cummings, Psy.D., is the daughter of Dr. Nicholas and Dorothy

Cummings and is an internationally-recognized psychologist. Janet’s academic

background includes degrees in pre-med, linguistics, and clinical psychology.

Janet completed her internship and post-doctoral residency at Arizona Biodyne,

and remained as a staff psychologist there for several years. With supervision

from some top Biodyne psychotherapists, she became a master psychotherapist

and expert in the Biodyne Model. She has continued to utilize the Biodyne Model

exclusively in her private practice and other work settings. She has served as the

president of the Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Foundation since its inception

in 1995. Under Janet’s guidance, the foundation has sponsored many projects

aimed at furthering the integration of behavioral health into primary care

medicine, including The Cummings Psyche Award (the premier scientific award in

the mental health field, with a $50,000 prize) and the launching of the first Doctor of Behavioral Health

(DBH) Program at Arizona State University. Janet is the author of over two dozen journal articles and

book chapters, and she has co-authored or co-edited ten books with her father. She functioned as a

professor in several university programs, including the University of Nevada and the DBH program at

Arizona State University. Janet’s latest endeavor is as President of the Cummings Graduate Institute for

Behavioral Health studies, where she also teaches Pathophysiology and Psychopharmacology. Janet

resides in Reno with her two children, Mary and Kent. Of the many jobs that Janet has held, she

considers motherhood to be the most important and the most rewarding.

PRESENTERS

2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Cara English, DBH, comes from a long line of educators, nurses, and

community servants. Her current role as the Director of the Doctor of Behavioral

Health program for the Cummings Graduate Institute is the culmination of her

passions of health, psychology, and social justice, and her genetic predisposition

towards education, medicine, and community service. While completing her

bachelor’s degree in psychology, Dr. English contributed to the continuing

education of licensed psychologists in Arizona as a staff member at the Arizona

Psychological Association (AzPA). Dr. English continued her training at Northern

Arizona University, where she chose to pursue an applied master’s degree

program in community counseling while gaining field experience at a homeless/

domestic violence shelter for women and children, and at a locked, residential

substance abuse/dual diagnosis treatment for adolescents. Her work as a

community-based and school counselor was honored with the Greater Phoenix

Child Abuse Prevention Council’s Bullying Prevention Award. Dr. English began pursuing the innovative

Nicholas A. Cummings Doctor of Behavioral Health (DBH) degree in 2011. Cara gained experience

serving as a behavioral health consultant in a free, school-based community health center in Chandler,

Arizona, where she specialized in treating and preventing childhood and family obesity, prediabetes, and

type II diabetes. Dr. English graduated in December 2013, and joined the ASU Doctor of Behavioral

Health program as a full-time instructor in January of 2014. She was thrilled to be invited to serve as the

DBH program’s Director as the degree’s visionary founders, Drs. Nicholas and Janet Cummings, moved

the program to a new venue. She looks forward to the positive impact this program and its national and

international graduates will have on patient care. Dr. English resides in the Phoenix area with her

devastatingly handsome husband of 13 years and their extremely precocious 9-year-old son.

Larry Ford has nearly two decades of experience in healthcare. He started his

career nearly two decades ago as a Registered Respiratory Therapist, and over

the years he was able to obtain immense knowledge and education in disease

management. Larry has started several disease management programs and

support groups. The most recent was an outpatient program for patients with

chronic respiratory failure that was very successful at reducing hospital

readmissions. During his years of working in various leadership positions in

healthcare, Larry realized the need for change in healthcare. He has served in

various leadership positions, including CEO and Director of Clinical Operations

and the state representative for public relations chair for Respiratory Care. Larry

later returned to school, and earned another bachelor’s degree in Behavioral

Science and Ethics from Mid-America Christian University. He went on to

complete a Master’s degree from the University of Oklahoma in Human Relations. In 2012 he was then

admitted to the Doctor of Behavioral Health program at Arizona State University. He credits Dr.

Cummings and the Doctor of Behavioral Health Program for introducing him to Integrated Behavioral

Health. Through the immediate knowledge gained through the Doctor of Behavioral Health Program,

Larry was able to cofound a CARF-accredited organization called Hands To Guide You, Inc., an

outpatient clinic for Behavioral Health. Hands To Guide You was founded on the very principles of

integrated care, population health management, and improving the quality of care. He believes there is

no health without behavioral health and envisions a healthcare system where physical and behavioral

health providers work together to provide collaborative and patient-centered care.

Leonard Fowler is from Los Angeles, California, by way of Chicago, Illinois. He

has over 20 years working with families and children. Leonard Fowler has a

master’s degree in social work from the University Of Kansas with a concentration

in Clinical Child and Family Therapy. He has worked for the Los Angeles

Department of Children and Family Service and community-based not-for-profit

organizations in addition to acting as CEO/President of his own company, Circle of

Life Family Counseling, LLC, with the mission of improving the lives of the families

and communities that he served. In 2013, he began a new journey with the DBH

program at Arizona State University with the same mission in mind: improving

the lives of the families and the communities we serve. Leonard Fowler met Larry

Ford while attending the Arizona State University Doctor of Behavioral Health

Conference. They hit it off right away and and created a partnership based upon the revolutionary

Biodyne entrepreneurship training with a vision to advance integrated care. From this came Hands to

Guide You, Inc. an outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic serving the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,

metropolitan area. Leonard Fowler is a board-licensed social worker in the state of Oklahoma. He was

also a voting council member for the Ryan White Title IV Program, governing five million dollars for

programs providing integrated services in the Kansas City area.

PRESENTERS

2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Eugene Furnace is an educator, trainer, author, and speaker. He has earned

degrees and certifications in psychology, nursing, and business administration.

Eugene has provided counseling and health promotion for nearly 15 years and has

taught undergraduate and graduate students for 8 years. As a professional,

Eugene has provided direct care and offered clinical consultations for practitioners

and managerial consultations for administrators and business owners.

Integrative, whole-person care has been Eugene’s orientation in delivery and

management of counseling and health services with a firm belief that mental

health is inextricably associated with physical health and overall well-being. He

has posited this model from the patient bedside to the executive office as a

counselor, as a clinical director, and as a consultant. As an educator, Eugene has

taught and tutored courses in psychology, sociology, human anatomy and

physiology, and business. Additionally, he has provided exam preparatory

assistance for individuals seeking advancement and/or licensure as nurses, marriage and family

therapists, and clinical social workers. Currently, Eugene is a Staff Development Officer for Riverside

University Health System – Behavioral Health, overseeing training and fidelity for contracted service

providers, and continues to teach in an adjunct capacity.

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AREA ATTRACTIONS

2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Friday evening will find us at Rawhide, an 1880’s Western town with a steakhouse, saloon, and

shops. Live action shows will make us feel like we’re back in the wild West!

In addition to historical fun, Wild Horse Pass offers many other entertainments, including a spa, golf

course, pool, equestrian center, outlet mall, and casino. There’s even a boat ride on the resort’s

two-and-a-half-mile river. All facilities on the resort are available via complimentary shuttle or boat ride.

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Directions from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport:

Take AZ-143 South

Merge onto I-10 East toward Tucson

Exit Wild Horse Pass Blvd

Turn right onto Wild Horse Pass Blvd

Continue on Wild Horse Pass Blvd through two signal lights

Follow the signs onto to the resort grounds

and guest registration

Hotel and

Guest Rooms

Thursday evening’s

Welcome Reception

will be held on the

Beehive Patio.

Conference sessions

will be held in the

Jackrabbit Room.