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Faculty Development Seminar Series 2006
"Enhancing Your Healing Presence: Walking in Two Worlds"
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Faculty Development Seminar Series 2006
"Enhancing Your Healing Presence: Walking in Two Worlds"
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Lori Arviso Alvord, MD is currently Associate Dean of Student and
Multicultural
Affairs at Dartmouth Medical School. A member of the Navajo
Tribe,
Lori is also an Assistant Professor of Surgery, Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry and a board certified practicing general surgeon. She
earned her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College (1979, Cum
Laude),
and received her Doctorate of Medicine from Stanford University (1985).
Her surgical residency was fulfilled at Stanford University Hospital
where
she finished as chief resident in 1991. For the next six years, she was
employed by the Indian Health Service (a division of the US Public
Health
Service) in Gallup, New Mexico, providing health care to members of the
Navajo and Zuni tribes.
“The Scalpel and the Silver Bear” (Bantam, 1999), her autobiography, tells the story of her journey from the reservation to become a surgeon and her work to combine Navajo philosophies of healing with western medicine. Married to Jonathan Alvord, Lori has two children, Kodiak and Kaitlyn, and lives in Enfield, New Hampshire. Dr. Alvord has received numerous awards, including an honorary degree of Doctor of Science Honoris Causa from Albany Medical College, The Sirridge “Outstanding Women in Medicine” Award from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, and the Governor’s Award for Outstanding Women from the State of New Mexico. She is also prominently featured in the National Library of Medicine exhibit, “Changing the Face of Medicine,” honoring pioneering women physicians over the past 150 years. The exhibit ran through 2005 and will tour the country throughout 2006. |
Walking in Beauty: Living in Balance |
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A Report from the Medical Director, I.H.S.-Billings Area Speaker: Terry Dennis, MD |
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Moderator: Terry Maresca, MD Panel: LeeAnna Muzquiz, MD, Lori Alviso-Alvord, MD Walt Hollow, MD, Freida Eng, MD |
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Speaker: Mark Wicks, MSW |
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Evan Tlesla
II Adams is a Coast Salish actor and physician from the Sliammon
Band
near Powell River, BC, Canada.
He stars in the Emmy-winning TV-movie LOST IN THE BARRENS and its nominated sequel CURSE OF THE VIKING GRAVE. He also stars as Thomas Builds-The-Fire in the Miramax feature SMOKE SIGNALS, written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre. SMOKE SIGNALS won the coveted Audience Award for best film, and the Filmmakers Trophy when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. He also won Best Actor awards from the American Indian Film Festival, First Americans in the Arts, and a 1999 Independent Spirit Award for ‘Best Debut Performance’. He is currently a regular on the CBC drama DA VINCI’S CITY HALL. Aside from his career in the arts, Evan has completed three years of pre-med studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC), a Medical Doctorate at the University of Calgary in 2002, and recently completed his Aboriginal Family Practice residency program – during which he was Chief Resident – at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is currently the President of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada (IPAC), Director of the Division of Aboriginal People’s Health in the Department of Family Practice, UBC, and is the Acting Site Director of the Aboriginal Residency Program. |
Native Healing: Bridging Two Worlds Speaker: Evan Tlesla Adams, MD |
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Speakers: Wayne Keaton, M.D. Alvin Goo, Pharm.D |
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Speaker: Jan Longboat |
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