2021 Plenary Sessions

Colleen Cordes, PhD, is the President of the Board for the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association and is assistant dean of non-tenure eligible faculty in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University.

Deepu George, PhD, is an LMFT in charge of a PCBH program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Family Medicine residency program. He is a passionate advocate for social justice issues, redesigned medical training and is a contributing voice to the CFHA podcast.

Monica Williams Harrison is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker that provides consultation for agencies around Integrated Care and practices Integrated Care at Hartford Healthcare. Monica is also the National Association of Social Workers Board Director Representative for Region II (Connecticut and New York City).

Jeffrey Ring, Ph.D. is an author, leadership coach, and consultant working to improve successful team leadership and functioning. He is also a bilingual Spanish-speaking health psychologist with a focus on fostering seamless integrated whole-person health care. For nineteen years, he served as Director of Behavioral Sciences and Cultural Medicine at the Family Medicine Residency Program at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, and he holds a Clinical Professorship in Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. His work has focused on health equity and justice and culturally responsive and respectful care. Dr. Ring is the first author of the book Curriculum for Culturally Responsive Care: The Step-by-Step Guide for Cultural Competency Training.

Dr. Ring has expertise in self-care, resilience and well-being and has provided teaching, coaching and facilitation for a wide array of businesses and healthcare organizations. In the summer of 2016, he taught mindfulness meditation to approximately 1200 agricultural workers in Spanish in Central California. In both 2019 and 2020 he was involved in planning and facilitation of travel for health care leaders through Alabama to better understand connections between slavery, racism, mass incarceration, environmental injustice, poverty and health inequities.

Eboni Winford, Ph.D., MPH is the Director of Research and Health Equity and a licensed psychologist/Behavioral Health Consultant at Cherokee Health Systems in Knoxville, TN. Dr. Winford provides clinical care to patients in primary care settings while supporting the development and implementation of initiatives designed to achieve health equity for CHS patients through translational research, clinical practices, and education.

Dr. Blake is Vice President, Healthcare Quality at the American Medical Association where she leads payment and quality initiatives of the AMA’s Professional Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability strategic focus initiative. Her team focuses on the impact of new payment models and coding requirements on practices, the characteristics of high performing practices, and the integration of behavioral health care into practice. From 2013 until 2016, she was executive director of the PCPI®, which includes the National Quality Registry Network™. Dr. Blake was co-chair of the Health Information Technology Policy Committee of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology until April 2017. She is a member and treasurer of the Governing Committee of the National Evaluation System for health Technology (NEST) coordinating center, a public private partnership advancing innovation and use of real-world evidence throughout the total product life cycle of medical devices. She is an AMA subject matter expert on a wide range of health technology innovations including artificial intelligence, terminology, clinical registries, appropriate use criteria and clinical decision support tools. Dr. Blake is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist who received her education and training from the University of Chicago, Stanford University and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. From 1988 until 2011, Dr. Blake practiced at the New Mexico Heart Institute, where she also served as President. She is a part-time member of the Johns Hopkins University medical faculty.

I am an Associate Professor in the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine, where I also completed residency and fellowship training in Primary Care Practice Transformation. As a faculty member I continue to blend clinical care with leading practice transformation locally and around the state of Colorado. I provide direct patient care at AF Williams Family Medicine Clinic, and I precept residents and other health professionals.I help lead cross clinic practice transformation activities for the CU School of Medicine’s primary care clinics, and I recently helped our clinics rapidly transition to virtual health during the COVID pandemic.

My scholarly work focuses on finding and disseminating solutions to common problems faced by health care teams. I am the Associate Director of the Practice Innovation Program where I help deploy practice facilitation, data systems, and peer learning networks to disseminate evidence-based approaches into the daily workflows of busy healthcare teams. Our program’s mission is to foster innovation and improvement in health and healthcare. We aim to be a leading source of innovative tools, support, education, evaluation, and research designed to improve healthcare practices, systems, and communities of health. It has been a rewarding challenge to adapt our methods of support to numerous clinical content areas and to grow the network of trained physicians, practice facilitators, and other healthcare team members adept at making improvements in their own settings.

Dr. Ken Loving, Chief Executive Officer, became Access’ CEO in July 2010 and previously served in the roles of CMO and Medical Director. Dr. Loving has been a practicing family physician at Access since 1996 and is bilingual in English and Spanish. He received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Chicago, and completed his residency training in family medicine at Cook County Hospital Family Practice Residency program. Dr. Loving completed the University of Wisconsin Physician Leadership Development Program in 2009. As CEO, Dr. Loving develops and implements Access’ strategic goals and objectives and gives direction and leadership toward the achievement of Access’ philosophy, mission, and goals, along with ensuring an environment where Access providers and staff provide high quality healthcare services.

Dr. Sunderji is the Psychiatrist in Chief/ Chief of Staff at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care, where she oversees quality of medical care and implementation of quality standards for mental health care. After completing her psychiatry residency at the University of Toronto, she completed a Master of Public Health, with a Certificate in Quality, Patient Safety, and Outcomes Research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and a certificate from the Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the University of Toronto where she is now a core faculty member. She has been a practicing psychiatrist for over 10 years, is active in research, teaching and administration, and has received international and national recognition for her leadership and research in collaborative care quality improvement and education. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Toronto and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She coordinates the annual Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Care Conference, and is Co-Editor of the journal Families, Systems, & Health(a journal of the American Psychological Association and the official journal of the CollaborativeFamily Healthcare Association).

Dr. Lisa Tshuma is an Assistant Professor at A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona, where she leads the Integrated Care Alliance of community health center(CHC)leaders, medical and behavioral healthcare providers, and interdisciplinary faculty through a 5-year HRSA funded project. This project aims to increase faculty, student and CHC partner capacity in the areas of opioid use disorder/substance use disorder (OUD/SUD) prevention and treatment, integrated primary care behavioral health (IPCBH), and wellness. She is a multilingual, nationally certified physician assistant, and a certified health professional and a diplomat of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She holds a Doctorate of Behavioral Health, a Master of Physician Assistant Studies, a Master of Public Administration, a Bachelor of International Studies and a certificate of Non-Governmental Organization Management and Grassroots Development.She has received national awards from the American College of University Women and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. Dr. Tshuma currently serves on several national health professions’ education and accreditation committees. Her passion for health equity in marginalized populations is evident in her clinical work at CHCs and free clinics, leadership in health professions’ education and clinical research on Alzheimer’s disease in Latinx populations. Her research interests also include cognitive bias in clinical decision making and medical education, the impact of integrated behavioral health medical education, quality improvement through team-based care and other upstream approaches to health systems transformation.