Front Line Indigenous Partnership Program

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Founded: 2020
Faculty Leads: Valerie Dobiesz, MD, MPH
Status: Active Program
Regions of Focus: Tsehootsooi Medical Center in the Navajo Nation Fort Defiance Arizona, Gallup Indian Medical Center New Mexico, Cheyenne River Health Center South Dakota
Research Theme: public health, health disparities, vulnerable populations, health inequities, pipeline programs

Description

The mission of the Front Line Indigenous Partnership (FLIP) program is to improve Native American health and eliminate existing health disparities by empowering emergency medicine health care providers serving indigenous populations to provide the highest quality care through educational, clinical and administrative partnerships. The program created clinical exchanges with Brigham and Women’s Hospital emergency medicine physicians providing clinical care at Tsehootsooi Medical Center in Fort Defiance to enhance clinical capacity. The program also sponsors monthly educational didactics, an annual Native American Emergency and Rural Medicine conference, emergency medicine resident physician clinical rotations, and nursing educational and administrative support.  The program is supported by a generous anonymous donor. Learn more here (FLIP).

Team

Valerie Ann Dobiesz, MD, MPH
Director, Front Line Indigenous Partership Program
Dr. Valerie Dobiesz has expertise in medical education and women’s health and is collaborating on developing an assessment tool to evaluate challenges to maintaining medical education during conflict and insecurity. Dr. Dobiesz is an emergency medicine...
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The FLIP Team includes the following members based at Brigham and Womens Hospital.