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Appendix C: Speaker Biographies (in order of appearance)
Appendix C: Speaker Biographies (in order of appearance)
Pages 81-92
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He is president of the Community Health Council of Seattle/King County, and immediate past-chair of the American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Caucus of the American Public Health Association. He is the urban representative to the American Indian Health Commission for Washington State, and recently joined the Board of Directors for PRO-West, a private health quality review organization for the Northwest.
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Mr. Forquera has spent much of his professional career working to improve the health and well-being of urban American Indians and Alaska Natives, an often misunderstood, overlooked, and gravely underserved population.
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Working with the National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center and the University of New Mexico, she is studying the promoters, barriers, and mechanisms of change in community-based participatory research. With the Northwest Indian College and the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, she is conducting a needs and capacity study of behavioral health at 34 tribal colleges (http://www.iwri.org/health)
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He headed an IHS budget expansion of more than $1 billion to tribes and urban Indian programs that exceeded $5 billion and more than 15,000 employees. He directed the IHS in developing the expansion for tribes to manage their own health care programs through the new selfgovernance compacting process.
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Roger Dale Walker, M.D., is professor of psychiatry, public health, and preventive medicine and director of the Center for American Indian Education and Research at Oregon Health and Science University. His current work draws attention to best practices for the prevention and treatment of addiction and mental health disorders with American Indian populations.
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Over the past 25 years, the American Indian Research Group has studied the prevalence and natural history of addiction disorders, risk and protective factors relating to addiction disorders, the relationship between mental and addictive disorders, and treatment strategies. He and his colleagues have consulted and lectured throughout North America on American Indian issues.
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He is also employed as a preceptor at the Duluth Family Practice Center in Duluth, Minnesota, and volunteers as a preceptor for the University of Minnesota Medical School–Duluth campus. He is a member of the Association of American Family Physicians and the Association of American Indian Physicians.
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She was also a program coordinator for the Cancer Council of the Pacific Island and a principal investigator of a National Cancer Institute–funded research project to investigate health-seeking behaviors of American Samoans in Hawaii. PANEL 4: Action in Cancer Prevention in the Communities JoAnn Tsark, M.P.H., is the research director for Papa Ola Lōkahi and project director of ‘Imi Hale Native Hawaiian Cancer Network (U01CA114630; U54CA153459)
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At Papa Ola Lōkahi, since 1999, she has spearheaded federally funded programs from the NCI, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support programs for cancer prevention and control research and education, and diabetes prevention and control in Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities. Additionally, she has supported efforts in cardiovascular risk factor research with Dr.
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Ms. Lopez was the director for the Diabetes Program, American Legacy Foundation Cessation Project, the State of Oregon American Indian Tobacco Prevention Project, and the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program for the Portland Urban Indian Health Clinic.
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, and most recently the CDC's Promising Practices Assessment of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Expert Panel (start date January 2011)
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