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Advisory Members // ETHICS: Ethics Training for Health in Indigenous Communities Study
ETHICS - Community Panel
The community panel consists of AIAN community members who have partnered with academic institutions on NIH-funded research grants.
CeCe Big Crow (Oglala Lakota)
Board Secretary, The Visions of SuAnne Big Crow, Inc.
Brenda Dial Deese, PhD (Lumbee Tribe)
Project Site Coordinator, Intertribal Talking Circle for the Prevention of Substance Abuse in Native Youth
Amanda Gaston, MAT (Zuni Pueblo)
Project Manager for Native It’s Your Game, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
Vanessa Hiratsuka, PHD, MPH
Senior Researcher, Southcentral Foundation
Lynnette Jordan (Ojibwe & Colville)
Interim Director of Operations and Director of Family Services, United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
Billie Jo Kipp, PhD
Associate Director, Research and Evaluation, Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute
Travis L. Lane (Navajo/Southern Ute)
Assistant Director, Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
Beverly Patchell, PhD, APRN, CNS, PMH-BC (Cherokee/Creek)
Past President, National Alaska Native American Indian Nurses Association
Assistant Professor (Retired), University of Utah College of Nursing
Antony Stately, PhD (Ojibwe/Oneida)
CEO, Native American Community Clinic
Sandra Stroud (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Project Director, Yappalli
Emily White Hat, JD (Sicangu Lakota/ Rosebud Sioux Tribe)
Project Evaluator, Sanford Research/USD (Sioux Falls, SD)
ETHICS – Academic Panel
The Academic Panel consists of AIAN scholars and Allies who have conducted NIH-funded research with AIAN communities
Jyoti Angal, MPH, CIP
Director, Regulatory Knowledge Core within the Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health
Julie Baldwin, PhD
Regents' Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Northern Arizona University
Director, Center for Health Equity Research (CHER), Northern Arizona University
Ronny A. Bell, PhD, MS
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Forest School of Medicine
Director, Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity, Forest School of Medicine
Jada L. Brooks, PhD, MSPH, RN (Lumbee)
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daniel Dickerson, DO, MPH, (Inupiaq)
Associate Research Psychiatrist, UCLA, Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
Rodney C. Haring, PhD, MSW
Research Faculty, Roswell Park Cancer Institute in the Office of Cancer Health Disparities Research, Cancer Prevention, and Population Sciences
Scarlett Hopkins, RN, MA
Community Engagement & Clinical Support Core Director, Center for Alaska Native Health research
Research Associate, Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Lee Anne Nichols PhD, RN (Cherokee)
Associate Professor, University of Tulsa Health Science Center School of Nursing
Tassy Parker, PhD, RN
Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Associate Professor of Nursing, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Irene Vernon, PhD (Mescalero Apache/Yaqui/Mexicana descent)
Professor and Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies (retired), Colorado State University
Melissa L. Walls PhD (Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nations Anishinabe)
Director, Great Lakes Hub for the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
Associate Professor, International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.