Yvette Roubideaux
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.