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 | |
___________________
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 |