Yvette Roubideaux

YR portrait B&W Yvette Roubideaux, Rosebud Sioux, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor in the College of Medicine at The University of Arizona.  Her work includes teaching and research on Indian health issues, with a focus on the quality of diabetes care for American Indians/Alaska Natives and Indian health policy. She is the Co-Director of the Coordinating Center for the Special Diabetes Program for Indians Competitive Grant Program, which is a 66-site diabetes and cardiovascular disease prevention demonstration project in Indian health programs. She is currently faculty in the University of Colorado Native Elder Resource Center Native Investigator Program. Roubideaux previously worked in the Indian Health Service as a medical officer and clinical director on the San Carlos Indian Reservation and in the Gila River Indian Community.

Roubideaux has worked on a number of national committees related to diabetes, including the National Diabetes Program (NDEP) Steering Committee, the NDEP American Indian Subcommittee (Chair), and is the current Chair of the American Diabetes Association Awakening the Spirit Native American Team. She was also the President of the Association of American Indian Physicians for 1999-2000 and was appointed to the Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Minority Health in 2000.  She is co-editor of the American Public Health Association (APHA) book entitled “Promises to Keep: Public Health Policy for American Indians and Alaska Natives in the 21st Century.”

Recruiting American Indian and Alaska Native students into health professional and research is also part of Roubideaux’s work.  She is the Director of the University of Arizona/Inter Tribal Council of Arizona Indians Into Medicine (INMED) Program and Director of the Student Development Core of the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona/University of Arizona American Indian Research Center for Health. Roubideaux is one of the founders and past co-Chair of the Native Research Network, Inc., and received the
2004 Indian Physician of the Year Award from the Association of American Indian Physicians. She also received the 2002 Outstanding American Indian Faculty Award at the University of Arizona.

Roubideaux received her MD from Harvard Medical School in 1989 and her MPH from Harvard School of Public Health in 1997.  She completed the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston,
Massachusetts and was board certified in internal medicine.  She completed the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy in 1997.