VENDORS:

Indian Health Board of Minneapolis
Scott County Public Health
Women of Nation
Wisdom Steps
Spirit of Eagles
American Heart Association
ACS
Sage
Mayo Clinic Behavioral Health
National Resource Center on Native American Aging
Indigenous Peoples Task Force
ShareHouse
Lupus Foundation of Minnesota

SPEAKERS:

Georgia Fox, Medicine Fox Consultant | David Perdue MD, MPH | Ray Begay, MD | James Jarvis, MD | Monte Fox

Bill Weiers, Registered Pharmacist | Lorelei DeCora, RN BSN | Additional Speakers

Georgia Fox, Medicine Fox Consultant:

Ms. Georgia Fox is known among her people as a natural helper. She recognizes her grandmother for instilling native traditional and spiritual teachings. Georgia is a creative thinker, researcher and visionary. She automatically thinks outside the box; she likes searching for solutions, alternatives and possibilities. From a native perspective she loves and enjoys philosophy, psychology, recovery and wellness.

Georgia’s background consists of working as an addiction counselor and vocational rehabilitation counselor with native teachings. She currently works for the Three Affiliated Tribes Gerald Tex Fox- Correctional Facility in providing training for adult inmates on Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) and Native Teachings.


Topic: “Honoring Our Life”

• By healing our heart, mind and spirit, we can then honor our past, acknowledge our present, the now, then look to the future.
• We can learn to shift the false image of ourselves as pursuers of wellness knowing we are wellness, we are consciousness.
• Honoring our ancestors is the first step in reclaiming our spiritual heritage and finding our center of peace within.
• We have the ability to change, grow, create, and strive for inner freedom and oneness with the greater energies.

David Perdue MD, MPH

Dr. Perdue is a gastroenterologist at the University of Minnesota. A member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, Dr. Perdue has a special interest in improving the health disparities of Native Americans. Using medical sociology, epidemiology and outcomes research methods, Dr. Perdue is working to develop culturally-sensitive strategies to curb the disproportionately high incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer experienced by Minnesota’s American Indian population.

Topic: Colorectal Cancer

• What is colon caner
• The importance of prevention and early detection
• Risk factors

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Ray Begay MD

Dr. Begay is a physician in Family Practice in Caneyville, Kentucky. He also practices administrative medicine for the Navajo Transport Service. He is a consultant for the Cultural Enrichment Program at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Topic: Music in Healing

• Discuss Music Therapy as culture-bound
• Discuss music in healing

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James Jarvis MD

Dr. Jarvis is the Director of Pediatric Rheumatology at Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma and Professor of Pediatrics at Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center. He has a strong interest in understanding the factors causing the high rate of rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and inflammatory muscle diseases in Native Americans.

Topic: Lupus in the Native American population

• Unique aspects of lupus in Native Americans
• Treatment of lupus

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Monte Fox

Monte Fox earned a degree in Exercise Physiology from North Dakota State University. He has researched physical activity and its physiological effects on the Native American population, and presently is the White Earth Diabetes Project Coordinator, and owner of the Fitness Fox Company. Monte inspires audiences to find the “medicine bag” within themselves to stop the progression of diabetes and obesity in their homes and communities, and adopt a positive outlook in moving toward a healthier lifestyle.

Topic: Physical activity

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Bill Weiers, Registered Pharmacist

Bill Weiers is a registered pharmacist with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Pharmacy. Bill joined the pharmacy in April 2007. He graduated from the University of Wyoming College of Pharmacy in 1991.

Topic: Resources to Help You Control Your Prescription Costs

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Lorelei DeCora RN BSN

Lorelei DeCora, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, is a trainer for the Seva Foundation, Native American Diabetes Project. Lorelei provides education on how to develop a “Talking Circle Curriculum” to fight diabetes. She provides training to individuals who would like to become facilitators of the program.

Topic: Diabetes and the development and use of Talking Circles

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Additional Speakers

Lana White-King, MD
Patrick Rock, MD
Tiffany Beckman, MD
R. Dale Walker, MD

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