Welcome to our new addition "Native American Women in Medicine" - the National Library of Medicine has organized an exhibition honoring the lives and accomplishments of women doctors who are making a difference in the world of medicine. The exhibition, "Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians" is on display at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. We have devoted a space featuring accomplished Native American women doctors from this exhibit. "Click" on their names to view their entire profile.

Dr. Sharon M. Malotte

Dr. Sharon Malotte is a member of the TeMoak Band of Western Shoshones of the South Fork Indian Reservation. She is the first indigenous Nevadan to become a doctor

Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson

Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson's grandfather was a Navajo medicine man, and many patients would travel long distances to see him. Dr. Nez Henderson is carrying on the family tradition by working to improve the health of wider communities as well as individual patients, as a public health physician specializing in the health care of American Indians.

Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord

A Stanford-trained surgeon, Alvord was the first Navajo woman to be board certified in surgery. But when she returned to the New Mexico reservation to work in a Navajo community she discovered, she says, that "although I was a good surgeon, I was not always a good healer.

Dr. Sara K. Dye

Dr. Sara K. Dye was born in Oklahoma City and is a member of the SacFox and Shawnee tribes. Dr. Dye worked as a general medical officer at the Claremore Indian Hospital in Oklahoma and did a residency in general surgery at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, becoming at the time one of only 16 American Indian surgeons practicing in the United States.

Dr. Yvette Roubideaux

Dr. Yvette Roubideaux, M.D., a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe, is an assistant professor in both the College of Public Health and the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She completed a fellowship at the Native American Center of Excellence, at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle.

Dr. Kelly Roberta Moore

Dr. Kelly R. Moore is a member of the Creek Nation of Oklahoma, and served as the clinical director and sole pediatrician for the Pima Indians of the Gila River Indian Community of southern Arizona.

Dr. Marilyn A. Roubidoux

Marilyn A. Roubidoux, M.D., a member of the Sioux and Iowa Nations, works to bring existing medical tools to the underserved to diagnose cancer and identify risk factors for the disease.