Profiles
Everett
Rhoades,
Kiowa, MD, has had an exciting, service-filled life as
physician, teacher, researcher, scholar, author of more
than 100 scientific articles and a book, administrator,
advocate for Indian health, creator of several
organizations, civic leader, husband, father of 5
children, grandfather of 10 and much more. He is best
known nationally and internationally as the first
American Indian Director of the Indian Health Service
and Rear Admiral and Assistant Surgeon General.
Lori Arviso
Alvord, MD,
was the first Navajo woman to become a surgeon.
Currently she is the Associate Dean of Student Affairs
and Minority Affairs at Dartmouth College Medical
School.
Joseph Bell, Lumbee,
MD, is Medical Director and pediatrician at Pembroke
Pediatrics. He also serves as a preceptor for medical
students from the University of North Carolina School of
Medicine. He is a Past President of the Association of
American Indian Physicians
Erik Brodt, Chippewa/Anishinaabe,
MD, is a resident in the family practice residency
program at Seattle Indian Health Board.
Joy Dorscher,
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, MD, has a dual
appointment at the University of Minnesota at Duluth.
She is Director of the Center of American Indian and
Minority Health (CAIMH)
and assistant professor in the Department of Family
Medicine.
Terry
Maresca,
Mohawk, MD, is
a
clinical assistant professor in the Department of Family
Medicine at the University of Washington School of
Medicine. She has a medical practice with the Snoqualmie
Tribe of Washington where she combines her Western
training as a family physician with her knowledge of
herbal medicine. Maresca maintains a medicinal garden at
the clinic and is a frequent public speaker on the topic
of combining Western and Traditional approaches of
health care. She was Director of the Native American
Center of Excellence
Adrienne
Laverdure,
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, MD, cares for
individuals, families and communities at the Peter
Christensen Health Center on the Lac du Flambeau Indian
Reservation. She is a family practitioner.
Her son is a
student at Harvard Medical School.
Raymond Reid,
Navajo, MD, MPH, is field clinical director
for Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian
Health.
Patrick Rock,
Leech Lake Band of Chippewa, MD, is a family
practitioner and Medical Director of the Indian Health
Board (IHB) of Minneapolis.
Yvette Roubideaux,
is
Director of the Indian Health Service. She is the first
woman to hold that position.