Appendix A
Workshop Agenda
ADVANCING HEALTH EQUITY FOR NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH
May 6, 2014
Hotel Albuquerque
Alvarado Salon, Room D
800 Rio Grande Boulevard, NW
Albuquerque, NM
8:30 – 8:45 | Welcome, Blessing, and Overview |
Antonia M. Villarruel, Ph.D.1 | |
Roundtable Co-Chair | |
Associate Dean for Research and Global Affairs | |
University of Michigan School of Nursing | |
Gabriel R. Sanchez, Ph.D. | |
Executive Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | |
Center for Health Policy | |
University of New Mexico | |
Blessing | |
8:45 – 9:45 | Keynote Speaker |
Moderator: Antonia M. Villarruel, Ph.D. | |
Roundtable Co-Chair | |
The Power of Protection: American Indian/Alaska Native Youth Resilience | |
Teresa LaFromboise, Ph.D. | |
Professor, Graduate School of Education | |
Stanford University | |
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1 Now at the University of Pennsylvania.
9:45 – 11:15 | Panel #1: Youth Voices |
Moderator: Melissa Simon, M.D., M.P.H. | |
George H. Gardner Professor of Clinical Gynecology | |
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine | |
Lia Abeita-Sanchez | |
University of New Mexico | |
Iris Sisneros | |
Native American Community Academy | |
Mary Lou Gutierrez | |
Newcomb High School | |
Shyann Lee | |
Newcomb High School | |
Micah Clark | |
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center | |
Kyle Smith | |
University of New Mexico | |
11:15 | Break |
11:30 – 1:00 | Panel #2: Health and Mental Health |
Moderator: Francisco Garcia, M.D., M.P.H. | |
Director, Pima County Health Department | |
Tucson, AZ | |
Culturally Based Interventions for the Prevention of Substance Use/Abuse Among Native American Youth | |
Who Are Preteens/Early Adolescents | |
John Lowe, Ph.D. | |
Wymer Distinguished Professor of Nursing | |
Florida Atlantic University | |
The Joys and Challenges of Helping Native Youth Tell Their Stories About Health and Wellness | |
Susie John, M.D., M.P.H. | |
Pediatrician, Northern Navajo Medical Center Teen Life Program | |
Shiprock, NM | |
By Age 7 . . . The Development of Our Next Seven Generations | |
Gayle Dine’Chacon, M.D. | |
Director, Center for Native American Health | |
School of Medicine | |
University of New Mexico | |
1:00 – 2:00 | Lunch |
2:00 – 3:45 | Panel #3: Education |
Moderator: Jeffrey Henderson, M.D., M.P.H. | |
President and CEO, Black Hills Center for American Indian Health | |
American Indians and the Health Professions: A Growing Crisis | |
Sam Deloria | |
Director | |
American Indian Graduate Center, Inc. | |
Albuquerque, NM | |
Tribal Science: Ensuring the Evolution and Practice of Indigenous | |
Scientists and Researchers in the 21st Century and Beyond | |
Jacqueline Bolman, Ph.D. | |
Director, Center of STEM (Science, Technology, | |
Engineering, Mathematics) Excellence | |
Humboldt State University | |
Valuing Traditions and New Pathways | |
Valerie Romero-Leggott, M.D. | |
Vice Chancellor for Diversity | |
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center | |
Executive Director, School of Medicine Combined | |
B.A./M.D. Degree Program | |
3:45 – 4:00 | Break |
4:00 – 4:45 | Concluding Reflections |
Victor Medrano | |
Division Director, Division of Program Development and Operations | |
Office of Adolescent Health, Office of the Assistant | |
Secretary for Health | |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | |
Cathy Malone, M.B.A. | |
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | |
Mildred Thompson, M.S.W. | |
Roundtable Co-Chair | |
Director, Center for Health Equity and Place | |
PolicyLink | |
4:45 | Workshop Adjourns |