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Patricia Nez Henderson, MD — general medicine (community)

Courtesy Patricia Nez-Henderson, MPH, MD

Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson’s (b. 1965) grandfather was a Navajo medicine man, and many patients would travel long distances to see him. Dr. Nez Henderson is carrying on the family tradition by working to improve the health of wider communities as well as individual patients, as a public health physician specializing in the health care of American Indians.

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