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Jules Rosen M.D. is the CEO and CMO of Summit Behavioral Health Consultants. Until July of 2019, he served as Chief Medical Officer of Mind Springs Health (MSH) in W. Colorado and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Prior to joining Mind Springs Health in August of 2013, Dr Rosen was Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Chief of Geriatric Psychiatry at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and Professor at the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. He has authored over 75 peer-reviewed articles in his subspecialty of geriatric psychiatry and has been the recipient of numerous NIH grants.

Dr. Rosen spent 32 years of his career at the University of Pittsburgh and gained a national reputation as an educator and researcher. However, he always maintained an active clinical practice. He realized that while behavioral health treatments (therapy / medications / other) are effective, obstacles to accessing care and the absence of objective rating instruments in clinical settings are limitations to the success of treatments. His work at the Katz Graduate School of Business focused on exploring the relationship between cost efficiency and clinical outcomes among vulnerable populations (frail elderly and mental illness). Establishing in multiple studies that the ā€œbest evidence-based careā€ yields the best financial outcomes for the medical system, Dr. Rosen sought to explore if this concept could be validated outside of academic centers.

In 2013, Dr. Rosen left the University of Pittsburgh to serve as CMO of MSH, the community mental health in 10 counties across rural western Colorado. At MSH, he and his team engaged in a year-long Lean Six Sigma exploration of an innovative approaches to address the growing demands for behavioral health services without concomitant growth in financial support or workforce resources called Phase-based Care (PBC). PBC, based on scientific evidence and clinical measurements, received of two of the most prestigious national awards for healthcare innovation in 2019 and 2020, and is now being implemented nationwide.