UNIVERSITY NEWS - FEBRUARY 2004

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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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This event is being sponsored by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for the Shortage in Nursing, the Indian Health Council, Inc. and the FAU Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing/Faculty Development & Student Nurses Association.