{"id":33587,"date":"2008-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2008\/12\/15\/todays-ctr-seminar-to-focus-on-american-indian-health-issues\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T06:00:00","slug":"todays-ctr-seminar-to-focus-on-american-indian-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2008\/12\/15\/todays-ctr-seminar-to-focus-on-american-indian-health-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s CTR seminar to focus on American Indian health issues"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n<\/TABLE>Donald Warne, M.D., will discuss health policies and disparities among American Indians today at noon in the Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater as part of the monthly Clinical and Translational Research (CTR) seminar series. <\/p>\n

Dr. Warne is executive director of the Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board (AATCHB) and president and CEO of the health care consulting firm, American Indian Health Management & Policy.<\/p>\n

He also is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, S.D., and he comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men.<\/p>\n

He serves as an adjunct clinical professor at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law where he teaches American Indian Health Policy.<\/p>\n

During his career, he has worked as a primary care and integrative medicine physician with the Gila River Health Care Corporation in Sacaton, Ariz. He also spent three years as a staff clinician with the National Institutes of Health in Phoenix conducting diabetes research and developing diabetes education and prevention programs in partnership with tribes.<\/p>\n

Dr. Warne’s lecture is part of an ongoing series of CTR seminars that are typically held on the third Monday of each month. <\/p>\n

The series brings clinical and basic science investigators together to identify new ways to collaborate and answer important clinical questions. <\/p>\n

The seminar will be recorded and available for investigators who cannot attend. <\/p>\n

It also will be televised at the following sites:
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