Psychedelic Association of Arizona Leadership
At PAAZ, we are extremely proud of our dedicated leadership team, each member possessing a shared passion and commitment to revolutionizing mental health care. Our team understands the complex challenges individuals face in their mental health and is devoted to providing innovative and effective alternatives to traditional approaches. Together, we are resolute in our pursuit to make transformative strides in the mental health landscape and empower individuals to lead healthier, more fulfilling lives.
President
Josh Mozell, J.D.
Josh graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in psychology. For the next four years he worked in Arizona's SMI system (serious mental illness) at direct care clinics. At nights, he worked at the county crisis line. Frustrated by the state of care, he went to law school, while working the county crisis line his final two years there. He is now the only attorney in Arizona with a practice 100% devoted to mental health.
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He represents psychiatric hospital systems and stand-alones, psychiatrists and psychologists in front of their boards and consults in building their practices, outpatient clinics, and families fighting insurance companies for mental health care. Along side his practice, is his advocacy work. He was the Chair of Mental Health of America of Arizona for two years, has been the first and only President of the Association for the Chronically Mentally Ill, is the former Chair of the State Bar Mental Health section, is Co-Chair of the Maricopa County Independent Oversight Committee, is a board member of the Columbia University Council on Global MH, and is the founder and President of the Psychedelic Association of Arizona. Recognizing the work he has done, ASU Law selected Josh as the 2020 alumni of the year.
Vice President
Bob Connolly, PSY. D
Dr. Bob Connolly is a clinical psychologist who has been in the education/mental health field for 30 years. He has a wide range of experience that includes treating autism, substance abuse and personality disorders. He also conducts a wide range psychological assessments.Dr. Bob Connolly is a clinical psychologist who has been in the education/mental health field for 30 years. He has a wide range of experience that includes treating autism, substance abuse and personality disorders. He also conducts a wide range psychological assessments.
Board Member
Danica Patrick
As a racecar driver, Danica Patrick broke barriers and set records with her on-track performance. With her racing career behind her, Danica looks to her next chapter as she focuses on her passions: good food, great wine, fitness and helping others achieve their goals.
Danica joined the mainstream ranks by succeeding in the male-dominated world of professional motorsports. Danica was named to TIME’s “100 Most Influential People” list, has graced the cover of many prestigious publications and was featured in pictorials in the 2008 and 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She has appeared in a record-setting 14 Super Bowl commercials, 13 of which were for longtime partner, GoDaddy!
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At just 10 years old, Danica’s racing career began after her parents bought her a go-kart. After winning numerous regional and national go-kart titles, Danica left the Midwest at 16 years old to compete in the cutthroat world of European road racing.
In 2005, Danica stunned the world by leading 19 laps and finishing fourth in her first Indianapolis 500. She became the first woman to lead laps and score a top-five finish in the historic race. In 2008, Danica made history again becoming the first woman to win a major-league open-wheel race in a North American series with her victory in the IndyCar Series Indy Japan 300 race.
In 2013, as Danica transitioned to the NASCAR Cup Series, she made headlines around the world with her record-setting performance in the 55th Daytona 500 race. She became the first woman to win a NASCAR Cup Series pole when she set the fastest time in qualifying 500 and then finished in eighth place, the highest finishing position ever for a woman in the “Great American Race.”
In 2018, Danica closed out her time in racing with the “Danica Double” and competed in two marquee events that were cornerstones of her career: the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500. In 2018, she shattered another glass ceiling when she became the first female host of the ESPY’s – ESPNs Sports Award show, that aired live on ABC.
Moving into her next chapter, retired from racing, Danica’s focus has shifted to her role as an entrepreneur and business owner. Taking the lessons she learned from her years on the track, Danica is the founder and sole proprietor of Somnium, a vineyard in Napa Valley, California. Her entrepreneurial spirit and passion for wine, found her wanting to expand her portfolio and in 2021 created a rose offering under the Danica label. In 2022, Danica entered the home space with the launch of VOYANT by Danica.
Danica is the author of a book Pretty Intense that was then made into the widely popular podcast that she currently hosts bearing the same name, Pretty Intense. In addition to these projects, Danica continues to do inspirational speaking engagements and plans to build upon these initiatives in the coming years.
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For more than 40 years, Chick Arnold was Arizona’s most forceful voice and effective advocate for the rights of the mentally ill.
His 1981 class action lawsuit on behalf of Maricopa County's seriously mentally ill population alleged that the State of Arizona failed to fund a comprehensive mental health system as required by state law. In 1989, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled, in Arnold v. Sarn, that the State had indeed violated its statutory duty, and the State’s subsequent compliance with the Court’s ruling has resulted in additional annual funding in the hundreds of millions of dollars for the benefit of seriously mentally ill Arizonans.
Chick’s efforts in that case prompted one commentator to assert, “Chick Arnold is to the mentally ill of Arizona what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was to African Americans during the civil rights movement.”
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Maria Baab is the Lead Wellness Coach at Omne Wellness. She specializes in helping women achieve natural hormone balance by addressing internal and external factors that contribute to their symptoms. She uses mineral testing to identify and rectify any imbalances, as well as addressing gut dysbiosis and underlying toxicity.
Maria also promotes lifestyle optimization through custom-formulated supplementation, holistic lifestyle support, education and emphasis on the importance of addressing the emotional body in physical healing. Maria is currently enrolled in the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition certification program, which adds to her wealth of knowledge in the field of Holistic Wellness. She believes that the integration of psychedelic medicine in the alignment of the mind-body-spirit offers a unique perspective that emphasizes modern medicine as a whole.
Maria's vision is to facilitate optimal health accessibility to all, fueling her passion about the availability of alternative and natural treatments alongside traditional medicine. This commitment extends into her personal life, where she enjoys developing her relationship with God, spending quality time with her husband and son, expanding her metabolic wellness through fitness and nutrition, being in nature, and exploring holistic wellness modalities.
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Don Fowls, MD is a nationally known psychiatrist and health care consultant who works with organizations across the country to develop solutions for the many challenges they face today, including integration, value-based reimbursement, managing complex, special populations, and strategic partnerships. Dr Fowls has worked with several national and regional health plans, health systems and providers to address these areas. He has also helped a number of start-up companies with product and business development, enabling them to strategically identify their best opportunities and then successfully pursue them as customers.
Dr Fowls previously served as Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Business Development for Value Options and its parent company FHC Health Systems for eleven years. He also worked at Schaller Anderson Inc. as Executive Vice President, Business Development, and President and CEO of its behavioral health subsidiary.
In Arizona he recently served as the behavioral health advisor to the Practice Innovation Institute, one of the CMS Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative grant awardees to transform the practices of health care providers. As part of this process he co-led the Behavioral Health Affinity Group nationally. He also served as Chief Medical Officer of Mercy Maricopa Integrated Care, the first fully integrated behavioral health plan in the nation.
Dr Fowls is recent past Chairman and current member of the Board of Directors for Copa Health, an AZ based community provider of services for behavioral health and intellectual and developmental disorders. He is also past President and current Chair of Government Affairs for the Arizona Psychiatric Society and a Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association.
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Dr. Sucher was educated at Wayne State University where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1968 and a Medical Degree in 1972. Dr. Sucher’s internship was at Sinai Hospital of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan and he underwent residency training at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.
From 1974 through 1994 Dr. Sucher practiced emergency medicine and served as emergency department director at two Honor Health facilities in Scottsdale (Osborn and Shea). He served as President of the Medical Staff of Scottsdale Healthcare (now Honor Health) Osborn during 1994.
He practices addiction medicine and served as the medical director of the physician health program/professional health programs for the Arizona Medical Board and the Arizona State Board of Dental Examiners from 1992 until November, 2019 when he transferred those programs to Community Bridges, Inc. He was also President of the California Physicians Health Program from its founding in 2008 until May 2020.
He has served as the President of the Nevada Professional Assistance Program since August 2017. Additionally, he serves a consultant in addiction medicine to most other healthcare regulatory agencies and boards in Arizona. He has served as the Acting Medical Director of the Division of Behavioral Health at the Department of Health Services, State of Arizona (2005-2006).
Additionally, he served as the Acting Medical Director of the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services at the Department of Health Services, State of Arizona (2002-2004). He served as the Chief Medical Officer for Community Bridges, Inc. which is a community-based substance abuse and mental health treatment program in the greater Phoenix area and throughout the state of Arizona from 2002 until April 2020. He was appointed to the CBI Board of Directors in April 2020 upon his retirement as CMO.
He was also appointed as a member of Board of Directors of the Community Bridges Foundation in 2020. He also served as the medical director for Community Medical Services from 2011-2016, which is the largest opioid treatment program in Arizona and has OTP programs in 10 other states. He remains as a medical advisor to the CEO and an attending addiction medicine physician for Community Medical Services in their Arizona facilities. He was appointed Medical Director, AZ West Region for CMS effective December 2023
Presently, as a consultant to Community Bridges, Inc. he serves as senior medical director of the CBI Professional Medical Monitoring Program and as Program Director of the CBI/Honor Health Addiction Medicine Fellowship. Dr. Sucher directed the formation of the first Addiction Medicine Fellowship program in Arizona in 2018 as a collaboration between CBI and Honor Health. From May 2019 until May 2023, he served as the Executive Medical Director of Meadows Behavioral Healthcare which is a nationally known treatment facility network for substance use disorders, sexual compulsivity, trauma and eating disorders. In that role he assisted MBH in developing a world class Medication Assisted Treatment Program and also was the Clinical Architect of the Meadows Malibu Health Professionals Treatment Program. In 2021 He became a Medical Advisor to Grace Sober Living Homes in Phoenix, AZ.
In 2022 he was appointed as a member of the Board of Governors of Via Linda Behavioral Health Hospital. VLBHH is a joint venture between Honor Health and Universal Health Services. Effective November 2023, Dr. Sucher has accepted a position as Lead Addiction Medicine Physician-Malibu Professionals Program with All Points North (APN). Dr. Sucher is a member of the medical staffs of Honor Health Osborn, Shea and Thompson Peak Hospitals as well as Banner Behavioral Health Hospital all in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is the medical director of physician health for Honor Health and the consultant for physician health for the Banner Health system.
He holds teaching positions throughout the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. These include Midwestern University, AT Still University and the University of Arizona Medical Schools. Dr. Sucher is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. He was granted Diplomate Status by the American Board of Addiction Medicine in 2009. He is also certified as a Medical Review Officer by ASAM. Additionally, he is a Past President of the Arizona Society of Addiction Medicine. He is a nationally known speaker on addiction medicine and professional health issues. From January 1995 through July 2001 Dr. Sucher served as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Rural/Metro Corporation. His responsibilities included oversight and management of all medical issues of the corporation including education and training, quality improvement, corporate compliance, government relations and business development. From early 2000 until July 2001, he served as CEO of Rural/Metro Latin America which provided services in Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. Rural/Metro Latin America was a $ 55MM annual revenue business unit of Rural/Metro Corporation. Rural/Metro Corporation was, at that time, the 2 nd largest ambulance company in the United States.
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Jennifer is an Attorney here in Arizona. Despite being a fairly new lawyer with mountains of student loan debt, she quit her job in 2021 to dedicate her life to filing a lawsuit against the United States, called Jennifer N. Murphey v. The United States of America. The point of the lawsuit is to bringing justice to all our forgotten brothers and sisters, our families and fellow humans. She spent several months in isolation researching and writing and created the biggest lawsuit in history to bring an end and awareness to this deadly so-called war. Taking a leap of faith, she filed that lawsuit by herself on July 21, 2022, knowing that others would find and join her.
Whether the lawsuit ultimately succeeds is of no consequence to her. She wanted to bring the truth to the American people and the courts to counter the propaganda and programming that has caused millions to misperceive what the so-called war on drugs really is, to blindly medicate themselves and their families with deadly pharmaceuticals, all while believing they are doing the right thing by persecuting those who use drugs not made by big pharma.
The deadly so-called war on drugs is really a war on humans, minds, free-thinking, informed consent, non-complaint consumerism, freedom, and much more. The lawsuit seeks to create transparency in pharmaceuticals and end the criminalization of personal choice. Jennifer knows within the depths of her soul that many will come to join her in this pursuit of freedom of humanity.
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Jennifer Montjoy relocated to Tucson, the traditional homeland of the Tohono O’odham peoples, in 2016 upon completing a Master of Science in Nursing degree from Vanderbilt University. She has since worked as a psychiatric provider and an integrated, holistic philosophy guide her practice.
Jennifer holds a PhD from the University of Arizona after studying biobehavioral neuroscience for several years. Her dissertation is titled: Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP): Clinical outcomes and self-transcendence in depression and chronic PTSD.
Ceremony and ritual are important aspects of Jennifer’s personal and KAP practice; she participated in Web of Life’s 1-year ministry ordainment program and was ordained in September 2021. Animism, is a non-religious, earth-honoring spiritual practice emphasizing the sacred connection between human and non-human peoples. To date, Jennifer has facilitated hundreds of individual KAP sessions and trained more than 100 licensed clinicians.
When she’s not working, Jennifer enjoys hiking, dancing, riding her Sportster, traveling, and spending time with her furry family.
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Dale has worked in the fire and medical service for the past 32 years, 30 of which has been with Mesa Fire and Medical Department (MFMD). He is currently a captain/paramedic, but has served in multiple and varied positions and roles during the tenure with MFMD. Dale is most proud of his current role as a peer support coordinator for firefighters, all City of Mesa employees and their families.
For the past 13 years, Dale has worked in and around the behavioral health system representing paramedics, firefighters, police officers and nurses. As the peer support coordinator, Dale helps to find, develop and vet resources for first responders and their families, including treatments for post traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, and family support and resiliency programs. Currently, Dale is working with state lawmakers to help create legislation to provide more resources for first responders, their families and our community.
“I believe the best way to help and support an individual is to help and support the community to which they belong.”
- Dale Crogan (2024)
Dale’s community begins with his wife, Cindy, and their three wonderful daughters Ruby (15), Lucy (12), and Ivy (9). Dale hopes to continue to benefit his community through his participation in the non-profit which is aligned with his values of service to others.