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has devoted her life to improving health care for Native Americans. She is both a physician who has spent years working in tribal communities and a scholar with deep knowledge of American Indian and Alaska Native health issues. A member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe, Dr. Roubideaux is the first woman to lead the Indian Health Service. I know she will do everything she can to ensure we keep our promise to provide quality health care to Native Americans.
Dr. Yvette Roubideaux most recently served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family & Community Medicine at The University of Arizona College of Medicine. She has conducted extensive research on American Indian health issues, with a focus on diabetes in American Indians/Alaska Natives and Indian health policy. Roubideaux previously worked in the Indian Health Service as a Medical Officer and Clinical Director on the San Carlos Indian Reservation and in the Gila River Indian Community. Roubideaux, 46, is a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe. She received her MD from Harvard Medical School and her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.
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has served on the ANTHC Board of Directors since inception. She is the former Chairman of the Alaska Native Medical Center Joint Operating Board and former chairman of the National Indian health Board. She is the current Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Bristol Bay Area Native Corporation. In 1997 she was the recipient of the Alaska Federation of Natives Health Award and in 1998 she received the National Indian Health Board’s Highest recognition, The Jake White Crow Award. She was born and raised in Clarks Point and currently resides in Dillingham. |
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, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is one of the nation’s leading authorities on health care quality and improvement issues. He is also clinical professor of pediatrics and health care policy at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Berwick has served as vice chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the first “Independent Member” of the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association, and as chair on the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. An elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Dr. Berwick now serves on the IOM’s governing Council. He served on President Clinton’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry. Co-chaired by the secretaries of health and human services and labor, the Commission was charged with developing a broader understanding of issues facing the rapidly evolving health care delivery system and building consensus on ways to assure and improve the quality of health care.
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serves as CEO and Medical Director of the Indian Health Board of Minneapolis and an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. The Indian Health Board is an Urban Indian Health Program providing health services to American Indian/Alaska Native people living in Minneapolis. He is currently the Regional Representative for the Bemidji area and President-Elect for the National Council of Urban Indian Health. Dr. Rock is board certified in family practice, completed medical school at the University of North Dakota School Of Medicine, fellowship at the University of Minnesota Health Policy, and residency at Hennepin County Medical Center.
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, a member of the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians and the elected Health Delegate for his tribe, is the Chairman of the National Indian Health Board. Mr. Franklin has spent the last five years on the Board of Directors of Sonoma County Indian Health and the last two on the executive board at California Rural Indian Health Board (CRIHB). He comes from a Fire Fighter/EMT background, having spent a number of years in that field and graduating college with an AS in Fire Science. He has spent a large part of his life proudly serving his Indian community; it is a task that he takes very serious. Today, he works for his own tribe as a Cultural Resources Director, Fire Management Officer and is one of 68 Tribal Historic Preservation Officers in the United States. |
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