Walt Hollow, M.D. 
Dr. Hollow is a member of Assiniboine-Sioux tribes.  He is a practicing Board Certified Family Physician, and is the first American Indian graduate from the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Hollow developed the Center of Excellence in 1993, and served as the Director until 2001. He then served as the Director of Faculty Development for NACOE until 2005. He continues to teach for the Indian Health Pathway. His practice is at Group Health Cooperative in Northgate, WA, and serves as a clinic preceptor there.  He is also on the Board of the Seattle Indian Health Board, and continues research in American Indian Health.  He is presently working with the WWAMI Workforce Research Program at the University of Washington and studying workforce issues and higher education for Native American students.

David Baines, M.D.
Dr. Baines is a member of the Tlingit and Tsimshian tribes of Alaska, and is currently a faculty physician at the Alaska Family Practice Residency in Anchorage, Alaska. He is a graduate of Arizona State University in Tempe, and received his M.D. from the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota. He is Board Certified in Family Medicine. His experience includes private practice for fourteen years on the Couer d’Alene Indian Reservation in northern Idaho, Clinical Director of the Nez Perce Tribal Clinic in Kamiah, Idaho, and the Seattle Indian Health Board. He is a past president of the Association of American Indian Physicians and is currently Secretary on the AAIP Board. He is the current chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Minority Populations at The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health and is on the Advisory Committee of the Center of Research on Minority Health at NIH. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Baines is the recipient of the 1993 Gentle Giant of Medicine Award, the 1995 U.S.P.H.S. Primary Care Fellowship, and the 1997 Founders Award for Community Service in Health and Medicine from the National Medical Fellowships. He has been a consultant for the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Academy of Sciences, and D.H.H.S. Dr. Baines frequently lectures on incorporating traditional beliefs with modern medicine. Special interest are teaching, medical politics and policy development, cardiology, emergency medicine, and geriatrics. Recreationally he enjoys spending time with his family, traditional dancing at Pow Wows, riding his motorcycles, hunting (archery and black powder),and traveling. 

Theresa Maresca, M.D. 
Dr. Maresca is a member of the Mohawk tribe, and is a board-certified physician in family medicine. She is the former president of the Association of American Indian Physicians, and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washingon School of Medicine. Her medical practice with the Snoqualmie Tribe of Washington combines her Western and herbal medicine approaches. She maintains a medicinal herb garden at the clinic, and is a frequent speaker on the subject of combining Western and traditional approaches to health.