The NACOE Lecture Series is geared toward Native American & Minority Health and will provide lectures to the local community health care professionals, general campus, pharmacy students, and the public. This lecture series will provide healthcare professionals in the community and pharmacy students the opportunity to learn more about the healthcare needs of minority groups in the United States. This lecture series will feature faculty and scholars from all over the country. Speakers will deliver lectures on various topics about minority health and provide a question-and-answer session after each lecture.
Spring 2025 Lecture Series:
January 18th, 2025 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm at the Adams Center West Auxiliary Gym
LEVI HORN (Northern Cheyenne) Former Griz Football/NFL Player Motivational Speaker
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February 6th, 2025, 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
Amber Brave Rock, Pharm.D., will share her Pharmacy Career Story in the Payne Building, Room 103
Amber is a clinical pharmacist and informatics pharmacist for the Indian Health Service at the Blackfeet Community Hospital. She is a member of the Little Shell band of Chippewa Cree and a direct descendant of the Blackfeet tribes. Amber grew up on the Blackfeet reservation and is proud to serve her hometown community in Browning, Montana. She graduated with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the 老虎机攻略 Skaggs School of Pharmacy in 2010.
Amber has 14 years of experience in several fields of pharmacy, including ambulatory care pharmacy (retail and clinical), hospital pharmacy, and informatics. Over her career, she found enjoyment in working with Native American communities, and it has been the most rewarding path for her personal and professional goals. Since IHS was the only healthcare system she had access to growing up, she is able to connect and understand patients at a very personal level. She is able to help patients navigate the health system and help them directly with their medication needs. To Amber, building trust and seeing people's gratitude is the most rewarding part of all.
Amber has four kids and a grandson. Raising healthy, happy kids has been the primary reason for her success in life.
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March 5th, 2025 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
Dr. Meagan Rides At The Door will provide a lecture on Historical Trauma in Education in the Payne building, Room 103, and Zoom is available:
Dr. Maegan Rides At The Door, LCPC, has served as the Executive Director of the 老虎机攻略 National Native Children’s Trauma Center in Missoula, MT, since 2015, working to support NNCTC’s mission which is to co-facilitate trauma-focused healing in tribal communities. Maegan utilizes her knowledge in culturally trauma responsive care to provide training and technical assistance with a wide variety of systems of care including but not limited to schools, child welfare, juvenile justice, and healthcare. She provides administrative oversight for all center activities, including personnel management, relationship building with partner leads, and communication with federal sponsors. She is the Principal Investigator on the center’s major awards. She carries a Blackfeet name by marriage but is an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Sioux and Assiniboine Tribes and a descendant of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
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PREVIOUS Fall 2024 Lecture Series:
October 15th, 2024: Everybody's Medicine,
Presenter: Darnell Davis Rides At The Door
Darnell Davis Rides At The Door, Nii Too Kim Mii (Lone Camper)
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November 7th, 2024: "A Framework for Indigenous Health- A Strengths-Based Focus on Improving Outcomes"
Presenter: Dr. Donald Warne (Oglala Lakota)
Donald Warne, MD, MPH, is an acclaimed physician and one of the world’s preeminent scholars on Indigenous health, health education, policy, and equity. Co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, Dr. Warne created the first Indigenous health-focused Master of Public Health and PhD programs in the U.S. A member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, Dr. Warne comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men and previously serving as a primary care physician for the Pima Indian population in Arizona and a staff clinician with the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Warnes’s award-winning career in research, educational leadership, and service is characterized by rich work and life experiences.
This is in collaboration with the Presidential Lecture Series.
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December 3rd, 2024:
Presenter: Dr. Ann Douglas, Director of the Riverwalk Crisis Resource Center, Western Montana Mental Health Center
Titled "Suicide Awareness Education"