Dr Susan Potts Sloan
Dr. Susan Sloan co-founded the Intertribal Alliance of Medical Students in Minneapolis in 1996 and served as its first president.
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Dr Susan Veronica Karol
Dr. Susan Karol was first woman of the Tuscarora Indian Nation to become a surgeon in 1988 and the first woman to be made chief of surgery at Beverly Hospital in Massachusetts in 1996.
Dr Sara K Dye
Pursuing her goal of reducing the number of diabetes-related amputations for Native American populations, Dr. Sara Dye directed the first non-invasive vascular laboratory for the Indian Health Service in 1984.
Dr Patricia Nez Henderson
Dr. Nez Henderson was the first Native American woman to graduate from Yale University School of Medicine in 2000.
Dr Patricia StandTal Clarke
Patricia StandTal Clarke, M.D., who is part Eastern Band Cherokee (Wolf Clan), is a founding diplomat of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, an ordained Protestant minister, and a physician specializing in an integrative medical approach to treating patients.
Lula Mae O’Bannon
Lula Mae O’Bannon (Choctaw) used the opportunities in joining the US Coast Guard SPARS during World War II to expand her horizons and serve the United States’s war effort.
Lula Belle Everidge
Lula Belle Everidge served in World War II as one of the few Native American SPARS.
Valerie Martínez
Martínez, a poet, translator, and playwright, is the author of three books of poetry.
Dr Yvette Roubideaux
Yvette Roubideaux, M.D., a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe, served as director of the Indian Health Service and a senior adviser to the Health and Human Services Secretary for American Indians and Alaska Natives during the Obama Administration.
María Roselia Jiménez Pérez
María Roselia Jiménez Pérez has produced several children’s books in Tojolab’al and has composed several pieces of vocal music in her language as well.