The American Indian Health Research Conference is held annually during the University of North Dakota Indian Association (UNDIA) Timeout Week. This is a week of speakers, classes and events highlighting American Indians in the spring. The American Indian Health Research Conference provides a day long event with national speakers, researchers, students, and community members. This is an opportunity to learn about how to do research with American Indian communities, what research needs to be done in American Indian communities, for students to present their research with American Indians, and opportunities to partner between communities, tribal colleges, and researchers.
6th Annual American Indian Health Research Conference
Friday, April 18, 2008
8:30am-4:00pm
UND Memorial Union View the 2008 Schedule
The annual American Indian Health Research Conference is a venue to share current research activities concerning health risk and health promotion among Native American communities.
Nationally-known speaker on American Indian health research
Student and researcher oral and poster presentations featuring American Indian populations
Alan J. Allery, M.Ed., MHA, Ph.D. is a fallen member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Prior to his passing, he was an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at the Center for Rural Health, the Principal Investigator and Director of the National Resource Center on Native American Aging, and the Director of Student Health Services at the University of North Dakota. His experience included 30 years of work with American Indian people (15 years with the Indian Health Service in various capacities and 15 years with UND developing numerous projects). Dr. Allery also served as the director for Student Health at UND. Student Health is responsible for providing acute care and health promotion services to over 13,000 students. During his tenure at the NRCNAA, he and his team developed a system for conducting community based research and for training American Indian students at the Masters and Ph.D. levels.
Alan’s work was incredibly far-reaching, and he left a consummate legacy of service. His spirited personality and caring demeanor is sincerely missed.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Judith Kaur
Dr. Judith Salmon Kaur is the medical director for the Native American Programs of the Mayo Comprehensive Cancer Center. All three Mayo sites are involved in outreach to American Indians and Alaska Natives through these programs. There are three programs:
Native WEB that does outreach training for nurses serving Native American and other underserved women to provide access to breast and cervical cancer prevention and screening;
Native C.I.R.C.L.E. that provides and develops culturally appropriate cancer education materials for lay persons, allied health and clinicians working in Native communities; and
"Spirit of Eagles" that empowers intervention studies in Native populations, provides scholarship support for students in medicine or biological sciences training and advocates for improved cancer prevention and control in American Indian and Alaska Native Populations. This is a National Cancer Institute funded Special Populations Network. Dr. Kaur's research also includes a special interest in women's cancers, particularly breast and cervical cancer. She is the Principal Investigator for a molecular markers study in breast cancer in American Indian and Alaska Native women and also a mammographic and clinical risk factor analysis study.
Sponsors
The conference was sponsored by the following University of North Dakota programs:
Center for Rural Health
Idea Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Grant
A tribute to the late Dr. Alan J. Allery
Dr. Judith Salmon Kaur is the medical director for the Native American Programs of the Mayo Comprehensive Cancer Center. All three Mayo sites are involved in outreach to American Indians and Alaska Natives through these programs. There are three programs: