Profiles
Audrey
Bercier,
Turtle Mountain Chippewa, is a PA student based at the
Quentin Burdick Memorial Healthcare Facility on her
reservation.
Amanda Carey,
Cherokee, “Miss Cherokee 2001-2002”, was a student on
the Native American Physician Assistant Track in the
Arizona School of Health Sciences PA Program when her
profile was written. Now, as a PA, she is happy to be
back home providing primary care at a tribal
clinic.
Martha
Flores,
Yupik, Aleut, has been a PA for 15 years in Bethel
Alaska. Her mother was a medical aide and her daughter,
Teresa, is also a PA, so 3 generations of women have
cared for their people in a remote area of Alaska.
Teresa
Flores,
Yupik,/Aleut, Martha’s daughter, has been working as a
PA in the same hospital as her mother since December
2005. Teresa is in the family practice clinic where she
has her own panel of patients.
Since
early 2005, Shanna
Geiger,
Navajo, has worked as a PA providing primary care at
Native Health, a small, urban clinic in Phoenix,
Arizona. Geiger and her family received their care at
this clinic when she was growing up.
Wabanang
Kuczek, Yaqui,
MPH, PA-C, has provided a great deal of leadership in
the PA world. In her own practice she has honored
traditional knowledge and focused on prevention.
Wilma Toledo,
Jemez Pueblo, became a PA in the early years of the
profession. From 1977 until 2000, she worked full time
at Albuquerque Indian Hospital. Now she is a contract PA
in Albuquerque Indian Hospital’s diabetes program and a
volunteer faculty member at the PA Program at the
University of New Mexico.