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UNIVERSITY NEWS - FEBRUARY 2004
MEDIA CONTACT: Andrew LaPlant
FAU Professor to Host Forum on Native American Indian and Native Alaskan Tribes BOCA RATON, FL (February 11, 2004) - Florida Atlantic University Native American nursing professor Dr. John Lowe is hosting an open forum on Native American Indian and Native Alaskan care. The event, which is free and open to the public, will explore past, present and future caring needs for the health, education and well-being of Native American Indian/Native Alaskan people. Juanita Koziol, senior public health analyst, and Dixie Stuart, chief nursing consultant to the Cherokee nation, will be among the nine-member panel. The forum will take place in the Majestic Palm Room at the University Center on the Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road, on Friday, February 13, 2004 at 5 p.m. Forum participants will have the opportunity to discuss the issue with Native American Indian/Native Alaskan registered nurses and leaders, including two who work at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The six other leaders participating
from around the country are Jim Henson, tribal leader of the
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees; Dr. Karine Crow, director
of nursing at Northern Arizona University; Ursula
Knoki-Wilson, health leader of the Navajo Nation; Dr. Barbara
Dahlan, director of recruitment and retention of American
Indians into nursing at the University of North Dakota; Tom
Lidot, consultant and grant writer for Native American
programs and Nancy Lewin, director of the campaign for the
shortage of nursing at Johnson and Johnson.
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