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Contact: Carolyn Gonzales 277-5920
cgonzal@unm.edu

Sept. 12, 2007

“Health Policy and Native Americans” Lecture at UNM

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico hosts “Health Policy and Native Americans,” a lecture by Donald Warne, MD, MPH, on Thursday, Sept. 20, from 12:30-1:45 p.m. at the UNM Student Union Building’s Santa Ana Room. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Warne, a clinical professor at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, teaches American Indian Health Policy and assists in the development of the American Indian Policy and Leadership Development Center. Warne is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, S.D. and comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men.

Warne received his MD from Stanford University in 1995 and a master of public health from Harvard University with a concentration in health policy in 2002. He is a certified diabetes educator, and he is certified by both the American Board of Family Practice and the American Board of Medical Acupuncture. He has completed fellowships in alternative medicine from the Arizona Center for Health and Medicine and in minority health policy from Harvard Medical School.

The lecture is part of the RWJF Center for Health Policy’s Fall Lecture Series. For more information about this or other upcoming lectures, contact Cathleen Rineer-Garber, 220-2892, or the RWJF Center at (505) 277-0130 or via email at rwjf@unm.edu.

The RWJF Center for Health Policy at UNM seeks to encourage greater ethnic and racial representation in the national health policy dialogue. The Center accomplishes this by providing educational opportunities for doctoral students in the social sciences at UNM; increasing awareness about the need for greater ethnic diversity in US health policy decision-making; and conducting independent research and supporting a national research agenda that promotes a better understanding of health issues, including access, cost, and health care quality to inform the policy debate.

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