Donald Warne, MD, will speak on “Integrating Public Health, Medicine and Indigenous Cultural Approaches to Healing” at noon Oct. 19 at the 2022 Berggren Lectureship.
Dr. Warne, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, serves as Johns Hopkins University Provost Fellow in Indigenous Health Policy and professor and co-director of the Center for Indigenous Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The event will take place in Room 3013 of the Maurer Center for Public Health on the UNMC Omaha campus. Lunch will be served for attendees beginning at 11:15 a.m. in the third-floor commons of the building. The event is open to the community for no charge, but registration is required.
Dr. Warne comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men. He serves as the senior policy advisor to the Great Plains Tribal Leader’s Health Board in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Dr. Warne received his MD from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1995 and his MPH from Harvard School of Public Health in 2002. His work experience includes:
- Primary care physician with the Gila River Health Care Corporation in Arizona;
- Staff clinician with the National Institutes of Health;
- Indian Legal Program faculty with the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University;
- Health policy research director for Inter Tribal Council of Arizona;
- Executive director of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board; and
- Chair of the North Dakota State University Department of Public Health.
Dr. Warne also is a member of the Stanford University Alumni Hall of Fame.
The Berggren Lectureship was endowed by Carol Swarts, MD, to honor the work of Gretchen Glode Berggren, MD, and the late Warren Berggren, MD. After graduating from the UNMC College of Medicine, the Berggrens spent a lifetime pioneering and implementing community-oriented primary care interventions in Africa and Haiti.