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AAIP Member Dr. Dorothy Rhoades Recent Promotion
August 12, 2020
We are proud to acknowledge the recent promotion of Dr. Dorothy Rhoades (Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma), one of our AAIP members, to Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City.
Dorothy Rhoades, MD, MPH, is the Director of American Indian Cancer Research Initiatives for the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Dr. Rhoades earned her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She completed the American Indian Health Fellowship at the University of Washington where she also earned a Master of Public Health degree in epidemiology. She went on to complete the Native Investigator Development program at the University of Colorado Health Sciences for additional training American Indian health research. She then became faculty for the Native Investigator program, a role she continues today as mentor for American Indian junior investigators embarking on research careers in American Indian health. Her research focused on American Indian health with a particular focus on chronic diseases as well as quality of data available for the study of American Indian health disparities. Her current research focuses on American Indian cancer disparities. Dr. Rhoades also sees patients as a hospitalist at the medical center.
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, there were only 7 American Indian or Alaska Native full-time women faculty at the full professor rank in 2018 out of a total of over 9600. Congratulations Dr. Rhoades on your achievement and long term service to science and to our people!
https://www.aamc.org/system/files/2020-01/2018Table11.pdf
Dorothy Rhoades, MD, MPH, is the Director of American Indian Cancer Research Initiatives for the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Dr. Rhoades earned her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She completed the American Indian Health Fellowship at the University of Washington where she also earned a Master of Public Health degree in epidemiology. She went on to complete the Native Investigator Development program at the University of Colorado Health Sciences for additional training American Indian health research. She then became faculty for the Native Investigator program, a role she continues today as mentor for American Indian junior investigators embarking on research careers in American Indian health. Her research focused on American Indian health with a particular focus on chronic diseases as well as quality of data available for the study of American Indian health disparities. Her current research focuses on American Indian cancer disparities. Dr. Rhoades also sees patients as a hospitalist at the medical center.
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, there were only 7 American Indian or Alaska Native full-time women faculty at the full professor rank in 2018 out of a total of over 9600. Congratulations Dr. Rhoades on your achievement and long term service to science and to our people!
https://www.aamc.org/system/files/2020-01/2018Table11.pdf