{"id":71417,"date":"2021-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2021\/07\/15\/siobhan-wescott-md-named-endowed-professor-of-american-indian-health-at-unmc\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T17:12:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:12:38","slug":"siobhan-wescott-md-named-endowed-professor-of-american-indian-health-at-unmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2021\/07\/15\/siobhan-wescott-md-named-endowed-professor-of-american-indian-health-at-unmc\/","title":{"rendered":"Siobhan Wescott, MD, named endowed professor of American Indian health at UNMC&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>A framed picture of a dirt road with low hanging clouds and forested landscape hangs in the office of Siobhan Wescott, MD, MPH, the&nbsp;new endowed professor&nbsp;and director of&nbsp;American Indian health in the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An Alaskan Athabascan, Dr. Wescott grew up just&nbsp;outside Fairbanks&nbsp;in a tiny 400 square foot cabin with an outhouse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&nbsp;picture&nbsp;is a reminder to&nbsp;never forget where I come from,&#8221; Dr. Wescott said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her journey to&nbsp;become the inaugural holder of the Dr. Susan and Susette (Inshata&nbsp;Theumba) LaFlesche Professorship in Public Health&nbsp;at UNMC&nbsp;has taken Dr. Wescott from Alaska to the hallowed halls of&nbsp;Dartmouth College, where she earned a degree in government,&nbsp;the University of California&nbsp;where she earned her master&#39;s degree in public health,&nbsp;to&nbsp;Harvard&nbsp;Medical School&nbsp;where she earned her medical degree,&nbsp;and eventually to the University of North Dakota where she was&nbsp;most recently&nbsp;the&nbsp;co-director of the&nbsp;48-year-old&nbsp;Indians&nbsp;into&nbsp;Medicine program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wescott has always been&nbsp;a staunch advocate for&nbsp;Alaskan Natives&nbsp;and&nbsp;American Indians,&nbsp;especially&nbsp;when it comes to issues of health equity and educating the next generation.&nbsp;She has cultivated a nationally recognized voice, especially through her work with the American Medical Association.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She said she&nbsp;is delighted to know that the professorship she is stepping into at UNMC is named after Dr. Susan and Susette LaFlesche, two sisters from the Omaha Tribe whose lives spanned the&nbsp;19th and&nbsp;20th centuries.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dr. Susan was the first Native American physician, quite a feat in Victorian times when only one medical school in the world accepted women,&#8221; Dr. Wescott said. &#8220;Susette and Dr. Susan were tireless public health advocates for American Indians and those living in rural Nebraska.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These strong women, Dr. Wescott said, who continually tried to better the lives of others&nbsp;are&nbsp;reminiscent of another key figure, without whom, this endowment would not be possible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dr. Carol Swarts&nbsp;is an unstoppable force of nature who well into her retirement has continued to serve others as&nbsp;locum tenens&nbsp;(a&nbsp;physician who steps in and temporarily fulfills the duties of another physician),&#8221; Dr. Wescott said. &#8220;It&rsquo;s just amazing to me how she gives so selflessly of her time.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the&nbsp;LaFlesche&nbsp;sisters and&nbsp;Dr.&nbsp;Swarts,&nbsp;Dr. Wescott&nbsp;said&nbsp;she couldn&rsquo;t pass up the opportunity&nbsp;to lead the new&nbsp;NE &#8211; HEALING (Nebraska &#8211; Health, Education, Advocacy and Leadership across Indigenous and Native Generations) project&nbsp;at UNMC.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are very few endowed professorships for American Indians&nbsp;in health. This&nbsp;is an acknowledgement that the status quo is not meeting the needs of local tribes and American Indians\/Alaska Natives in general,&#8221; she said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&rsquo;s an exciting opportunity to make a better system and take the resources of UNMC and coordinate better to address chronic illness and health disparities among the&nbsp;American Indian&nbsp;people of this state and&nbsp;the&nbsp;region.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Swarts&nbsp;said she&nbsp;created the Dr. Susan and Susette (Inshata&nbsp;Theumba) LaFlesche Professorship in Public Health as a tribute to their lives of service, healing and advocacy for Native people. It is in this&nbsp;spirit,&nbsp;that&nbsp;she hopes&nbsp;Dr. Wescott&nbsp;will carry forward the work of Dr. Susan and Susette LaFlesche.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&rsquo;s obvious that one of the neglected areas of public health in the state is among our American Indian population, and to get someone of Dr. Wescott&rsquo;s caliber who understands the challenges&nbsp;of those communities,&nbsp;will hopefully greatly impact the health of the tribes,&#8221;&nbsp;Dr.&nbsp;Swarts said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both Dr. Wescott and Dr. Swarts said any impact will only be brought about by building trust&nbsp;first.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It takes time to build trust, and you can only do that by listening,&#8221; Dr. Wescott said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Swarts agreed, adding that&nbsp;partnerships will be forged&nbsp;only through listening,&nbsp;asking the tribes what they know their needs are and coming alongside in collaboration with them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wescott said&nbsp;one of the first things&nbsp;she would like&nbsp;to do is&nbsp;invite&nbsp;the tribes and American Indians in the state to take part in creating a memorial quilt for&nbsp;those in their communities who lost their lives to COVID-19.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To help us mourn our loved ones and heal together,&#8221; she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In welcoming Dr. Wescott to&nbsp;the&nbsp;UNMC College of Public Health Dean Ali Khan, MD, MPH, said:&nbsp;&#8220;Dr.&nbsp;Wescott has traveled a long road for her education and public health practice as an Alaskan&nbsp;Native to her new home in Omaha. We are excited to welcome her to inspire us to be better health partners with native and indigenous communities. And we&nbsp;thank Dr. Carol Swarts for her generous gift to make this endowed professorship possible.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are Nebraska Medicine and UNMC. 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