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Dr. Jennie Joe is the Director of the Native American Research and Training Center (NARTC) and is a professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine (and participates as faculty in the American Indian Studies Program). Dr. J. Joe has over 20 years of experience in administration, teaching, and research. She has and continues to conduct training and research projects collaboratively with a number of tribal and native communities. Some of her research endeavors have been with White Mountain Apache Tribe, Navajo Nation, and groups such as American Indian Wildland firefighters, Intertribal Council of Arizona, California Rural Indian Health Board, Battelle Memorial, Institute for Scientific Analysis, etc. In addition to a number of research reports, book reviews, and monographs, Professor Joe also has over 20 chapters published in edited books and 26 articles in refereed journals with a number of other articles in press. She serves on a number of national and international boards. Some of the courses taught by Professor Joe have included Women and Culture, Indians of North America, Living in the Place of the Sacred, Research Methods in Community based Research, Health Policies, etc. Professor Joe is presently a principal investigator on four research projects and has, over the years, received other multiple sources of research funding and has conducted numerous community-based studies. (Navajo)
Dr. Young has been a Research Associate at the Native American Research and Training Center (NARTC) since 1985, where his responsibilities include editing and writing grants and journal articles as well as conducting research about American Indian health and rehabilitation issues. As a grants writer, he has submitted numerous proposals in a variety of disciplines to the NIH, the NSF, the Dept. of Education, and several private foundations. He was a co-P.I. on a 1.5 million W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant with responsibility for working with American Indian tribal leaders in the development of community revitalization projects and helping them to apply for funds to implement them. His public health research interests are chronic diseases, and he has published a number of studies in substance abuse and in diabetes in American Indians, and is co-author with Dr. Jennie Joe of the book: Diabetes as a Disease of Civilization. Dr. Young has written and compiled a 200 page grants writing manual for American Indians interested in conducting cancer research as a part of the Native Researchers Cancer Control Training Project funded by the National Cancer Institute. As part of the NRCCTP project, Dr. Young provided instruction in critical thinking and problem solving strategies in developing and implementing research and training projects, in how to translate a research idea into a grant proposal, and in grants writing and field mentoring. As a member of the SEPTA faculty, Dr. Young is director of faculty and has responsibility for overseeing the evaluation process and for all the reporting requirements of the program.
Dr. Paul Skinner, PhD
Dr. Paul Skinner, Emeritus Professor of Family and Medicine, College of Medicine, has served a lengthy and productive interdisciplinary career at the University of Arizona, and continues his career under emeritus professorial status. Previously, Dr. Skinner served as Dept. Head of Speech and Hearing Sciences, during which he became interested in hearing disorders and diseases, and related speech and hearing problems in Native Americans. Dr. Skinner expanded his interest to health sciences and thus to a larger of perspective of Native American disorders and diseases, and to healing and health.
Subsequently Dr. Skinner received a major federal grant to establish a Native American R&T Center (NARTC) to pursue the role of Psycho-Socio-Cultural, and Cognitive- Behavioral Aspects of Disorders and Diseases and to related processes in Healing and Health in Native Americans. This activity led to Dr. Skinner's transfer to the Dept of FCM in the COM, where he served as Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Native American Center for about a decade. He continues his work in the NARTC, and also currently serves as Director of the Lifestyle and Behavioral Health Unit as an Emeritus Professor of FCM and the COM.
Dr Skinner has served as a Professor of Family and Community Medicine in the College of Medicine for the past 20 years, where he has developed research and training programs and major grants in health sciences. His emergent focus is on Lifestyle, Mind-Body and Behavioral Health, Consciousness and Spirituality, Healing, and Health, and thus Complementary Medicine and Self Healing. He offers numerous presentations: on-going courses, workshops, and national and international conferences; He is author of publications across several refereed journals, and is author/ editor of several related books.
Dr. Jenny Chong, PhD
Dr. Jenny Chong has worked with various Native American communities for over ten years in a number of capacities, as principal investigator, evaluator and/or consultant to the tribes. She has conducted epidemiologic studies to estimate the need for substance abuse treatment on Native American reservations, tested the feasibility of providing substance abuse treatment aftercare to reservation-based Native Americans remotely, evaluated the impact of social and familial networks on substance abuse treatment outcome for Native American women, studied the aspects of spirituality among Native American women in substance abuse treatment, as well as provide consultation to assist a tribal agency relocate their alcohol and drug program administratively. In addition, she had trained substance abuse treatment counselors on understanding the long and short term impact of treatment, as well as worked with counselors and clinical supervisors to understand and use research results to improve treatment outcome.
Tommy Begay, MPH, CHES
Kristin Olson-Garewal, MD, Pascua Yaqui Diabetes Program
Maria Cathy Garcia, MA
Lisa Clore
Pandora Hughes
Depree ShadowWalker, PhD Candidate
James Justice, MD., MPH
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