We are excited to announce Melody Brown-Clark
@MBrownClark (Cherokee Nation) as our President-elect. She will work closely with @AAIPDocs and President Brianna Sells Baldwin (Navajo Nation) to uplift #NativesInMedicine and #NativeHealth.
HUGE thank you to @vlocarmen for highlighting us! I am so proud to be mentioned alongside these accomplished and brilliant incoming Native physicians!!!
https://t.co/WHtiTxSuXB
Beyond excited to announce that I matched with @UMNobgynres. Incredibly grateful to get to train with the department who has supported me for the last several years! 🥹❤️💛
At #ACGME2025 presenting on how AI/AN medical student and resident representation has been worsening over the last 18 years. What are the steps institutions, PDs, and faculty can take to help close this gap? Come chat! @acgme@anams1975@aaipdocs
The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans.
Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.
Melody Brown-Clark, a fourth-year medical student at Northwestern University Feinburg School of Medicine, is pursuing a career in psychiatry with the hope of one day serving the Cherokee people.
https://t.co/tK2MWjTWeu
So proud of this piece written in collaboration with Dixie Blumenshine, @KyleLakatos, @rosalie_brooke, @TasceB
We address the profound underrepresentation of AI/ANs in medicine, what has been done, and what’s next.
Read more here: https://t.co/wkqJc5rAe3
This morning, students from the North American Indigenous Student Organization (NAISO) painted the Rock for Indigenous People’s Day.
About an hour ago, members of MSU’s Turning Point USA chapter replaced NAISO’s message with this:
Hi #MedTwitter! I’m Melody, an M4 @NUFeinbergMed, and I am so excited to be applying #Psychiatry for #Match2025. I’m passionate about the intersection of chronic illness and mental health, narrative medicine, and Indigenous mental health disparities. 🧠
What an exciting day for the Cherokee Nation, the Cherokee people and the community! 💜✨ Today, we broke ground on a state-of-the-art adult drug treatment center in Tahlequah! Osda!
When @GovStitt rejected federal dollars to feed children across Oklahoma this summer, we didn't hesitate to step in and help the kids who live on our reservation, both Native and non-Native. That's the Cherokee way. #CherokeeGoodness
🚨 @AmerMedicalAssn just adopted 3 new #civichealth resolutions to boost civic engagement among healthcare workers, Native Americans, and those in the carceral system! 💪 🩺
Interested in joining the civic health movement? Get your FREE badge: https://t.co/nDg5BiqY3I
The @AmerMedicalAssn now recognizes the significance of the land-grant university system and the Indian trust responsibility as part of their health equity and advocacy work. In 2024, @OSUMedicine at @CherokeeNation graduated their first class of doctors. @DrBray@ChuckHoskin_Jr