position: Director
department: Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Dr. Owen, a Tlingit physician, is the Director of the Center of American Indian and Minority Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School on the Duluth campus. Her primary responsibilities include recruiting and retaining Native American students on the path to becoming physicians. She also educates students and the community at large on issues in Native health. She is the current President of the Association of American Indian Physicians.
Project Report 13 January 2022
COVID-19 in endangered Indigenous groups from the Amazonia, Ecuador
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Experiences of rural Australian men with online SMART Recovery mutual-help groups
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Attraction and retention of nurses in rural, remote and isolated locations
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11th Biennial Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) 2024, 2–6 December 2024, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Australia
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Te Tāreitanga: Evolving understanding of health workforce research, 9 December 2024, Dunedin, NZ, and online
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4th International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2025, 16–19 June 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre, Kaurna Country, Australia
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