Native American Partnership Grant with Dr. Leolani Ah Quin

Leolani Ah Quin currently serves as the Wellness Center Director for the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona where she is building on a current movement in the community to build capacity across all disciplines to establish a disease prevention and crisis response model. Dr. Ah Quin is an active lead in these efforts and is supported by the medical, psychiatric care providers, and local schools; thus increasing accessibility of much needed services. She is a 2017 Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and a recipient of the 2018 Cummings Graduate Institute Biodyne Award for the individual that most embodies the Biodyne model of integrated behavioral healthcare. In 2019 while working as the director of Elbowoods Memorial Health Center’s behavioral health department, Dr. Ah Quin was appointed to the North Dakota Board of Social Work Examiners, and participated in North Dakota State BRSS TACS training to create policy change and implement recovery supports across the state. As a trained provider in integrated behavioral health she has been a primary influence in redefining the provision of healthcare delivery services in Indian Country and in developing integrated health care through comprehensive behavioral health services, and integrated behavioral health in both primary care and as an adjunct to psychiatric services. Dr. U. Grant Baldwin is the Assistant Director of Academic Programs at Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies, where he serves as a faculty member, subject matter expert, a student advisor and mentor, a member of the academic leadership team, and a leader in student and alumni services. Dr. Baldwin is also the Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Health and Behavioral Medicine in The Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina region, and most recently joined the faculty at Morehouse School of Medicine as an Adjunct Professor.

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