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
Director
of the Native American Center of Excellence and 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.
Patrick Rock,
Leech Lakes Band of Chippewa, MD, is a family
practitioner and Medical Director of the Indian Health
Board (IHB) of Minneapolis.
Yvette Roubideaux,
Sioux
Rosebud, MD, 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.