Yvette Roubideaux, MD — internal medicine
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Dr. Yvette Roubideaux (b. 1963), 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. She has been an assistant professor in both the College of Public Health and College of Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She has dedicated her career to improving American Indian health care through teaching and research, focusing on diabetes as a pervasive chronic disease. In 2001 she co-edited a book on Indian health policy with Mim Dixon, PhD, entitled Promises to Keep: Public Health Policy for American Indians and Alaska Natives in the 21st Century.
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