Advisory Council, Consultants & Partners

Advisory Council

As is written in the values and principles of the Center, we draw upon the diverse and unique cultures, ceremonies, customs, and teachings of American Indians and Alaska Natives for strength, wisdom, and guidance. In order to serve in a national capacity, we rely on the commitment of members from across the country to advise on curriculum development, cultural competency, and needs assessment.

Clyde McCoy, PhD, Eastern Cherokee

Dan Dickerson, DO, MPH, Inupiaq

Dolores Subia BigFoot, PhD, Caddo Nation

Dennis Norman, Ed D, ABPP, Descendant of the Southern Cheyenne Nation

Lorrie Miner, JD

Ray Daw, MA, Navajo

Richard Bird, MMS, CCDCIII, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate

Joel Chisholm, MD, Bay Mills Indian Community, a band of the Ojibway tribe

Lakota R. M. Holman, M Ed, Rosebud Sioux tribe

Vanessa Simonds, ScD, Crow Nation, Montana

Raymond Slick, MSW, Meskwaki Tribal Nation

Perry R. Ahsogeak, Barrow Village of Alaska

Ed Parsells, BA, Cheyenne River Sioux Nation

Matt Ignacio, MSSW, Tohono O'odham

Lena Gachupin, MSW, Zia and Jemez Pueblo, and Sun Clan of New Mexico

Jeffrey N. Kushner, MHRA

Roger Dale Walker, MD, Cherokee Nation

Melvina McCabe, MD, Member of the Navajo Nation

Robert Begay, Member of the Navajo Nation

Dana Diehl, MS, Yupik and Athabascan

Jacque Gray, PhD, Choctaw & Cherokee Nation

Connie O'Marra, LCSW, Citizen Potawatomi

John Jewett, MA, Oglala Lakota Nation

James Ward, MA, Choctaw

Richard Livingston, MD, Cherokee Nation

Ex-Officio Member(s)

Karen Hearok, LCSW, Member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Juanita M. Mendoza, MS, Member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona

Rose Weakhee, PhD, Navajo Tribal Member

Consultants

Pamela Baston, MPA, MCAP, CPP

Janie Ferguson, BA, Cup'g Eskimo

Sunny Goggles, MA, Northern Arapaho Nation

Michaela Grey, MPH, Navajo Nation

Maurine Lilleskov, PhD, CHES

Kristina Pacheco, BA, Pueblo of Laguna

Robert Rohret, MPH

Tom Vaughn, PhD

Star Wheeler, MS, Seneca Nation

Kate Winters, MA

Ken Winters, PhD

Janice Yazzie, MA, Navajo Nation

Janet Zwick, BS

Partners

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Behavioral Health Aid Program (BHA) and the Community Health AID (CNA) program

Northwest Portland Behavioral Health Board
Northwest Tribal Epidemiology Center

Comprehensive Drug Research Center, University of Miami
The Comprehensive Drug Research Center (CDRC) is a comprehensive interdisciplinary research center which has been named a Center of Excellence by the University of Miami. From the outset great attention has been paid to the facilitation of research through supportive core functions. Core functions of the CDRC include the following: administration and leadership; project interactions; access to research populations; community epidemiology/geographic information systems; outcomes research; quantitative data management and information systems; qualitative field studies; health evaluation; laboratory research; health economics; training/education; proven research technology; and technology transfer through publication and dissemination. Since 1994, substance abuse and related research such as HIV/AIDS have accounted for more than $200 million funding. For more than three decades, Clyde B. McCoy, Ph.D., has directed the Comprehensive Drug Research Center and health services research at the Miller School – and mentored a generation of researchers along the way. Dr. McCoy has spent more than 30 years preparing new drug abuse researchers and scientists to tackle pressing drug-related issues, such as HIV/AIDS, and helping communities around the world. McCoy joined the medical school faculty in 1974, launching the interdisciplinary University-wide Comprehensive Drug Research Center, where world-renowned researchers convene to study the many implications of drug use. The center is nationally recognized as one of only two federally funded centers for community-based health services research for chronic drug users.

National Association of Drug Court Professionals
Wellness Courts
Healing to Wellness Courts

Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP)

National Indian Health (IHS)Center of Excellence in Tele-health

Mental Health Advisors