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2007 Outstanding Alumni Award

Janet L. Cummings, Psy.D. ‘92, president of the Nicholas & Dorothy Cummings Foundation of Reno, Nevada, is the College Outstanding Alumni Winner from the School of Professional Psychology. Named for her parents, the Nicholas & Dorothy Cummings Foundation is a nonprofit educational and research institute dedicated to excellence, innovation, and the importance of behavioral health services, especially as they pertain to integrating behavioral health with primary care. The foundation funds a number of internally generated research, educational, and demonstration projects.

Janet also has an independent psychology practice in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is the secretary/treasurer of the University Alliance for

Behavioral Care, Inc., and is on the board of directors of the Cummings Foundations for Behavioral Health, Inc. She is an adjunct

professor of psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno, and theForest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri. Cummings co-authored six books with her father and published numerous articles and book chapters on such topics as fetal alcohol syndrome, managing suicidal patients, holistic and alternative medicine, and treating substance abusers. She produced a teaching video. A Psychological Autopsy, used by Wright State’s School of Professional Psychology, the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office, and the Suicide Prevention Center, Inc., of Dayton.