Siobhan Wescott, MD, MPH
Dr. Susan and Suzette La Flesche Professor of American Indian Health
Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Health Promotion
Director, American Indian Health Program
Director, Nebraska HEALING Project
Siobhan Wescott, MD, MPH, is director of the American Indian Health Program of the UNMC College of Public Health, where she also is an associate professor in the Department of Health Promotion. She leads the college's Nebraska HEALING Project, which stands for Nebraska Health, Education, Advocacy and Leadership across Indigenous and Native Generations.
Prior to joining UNMC in 2021, Dr. Wescott was co-director of Indians Into Medicine at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, where she also was an assistant professor in its Department of Family and Community Medicine, and an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health at the North Dakota State University.
Earlier, she was an associate scientist and senior consultant at Sanford Research and the University of South Dakota.
- 2008, MD, Harvard Medical School
- 1994, MPH, University of California-Los Angeles School of Public Health
- 1989, AB, Dartmouth College
- American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) health and increasing the number of Native healthcare professionals
- Health education
- Reducing racial bias in biomedical publishing
- Public health for Tribes and Native communities
- Nutrition science, especially vitamin B12 and folate deficiencies
- Wescott S, Johnson R, Lamba S, et al. Feasibility of an Assessment Tool as a Data-Driven Approach to Reducing Racial Bias in Biomedical Publications. J Med Syst. Dec 17 2021;46(1):10. doi:10.1007/s10916-021-01777-w
- Wescott S, Mittelstet B. Three Levels of Autonomy and One Long-Term Solution for Native American Health Care. AMA J Ethics. Oct 1 2020;22(10):E856-861. doi:10.1001/amajethics.2020.856
- Vasquez Guzman C, M L, D Y, et al. The Time is Now: Transforming Recruitment and Retention of American Indian and Alaska Native Medical Students Using the Medicine Wheel Model. J Health Science & Education. November 2020;4(5):1-9. doi:10.0000/JHSE.1000198
- Wescott S. The Art of Medicine in an Alaska Native Way. Physician Family. Fall 2020 ed. Madison, WI: American Medical Association Alliance, Inc.; 2020. p. 16-17.
- Warne D, Wescott S. Social Determinants of American Indian Nutritional Health. Curr Dev Nutr. Aug 2019;3(Suppl 2):12-18. doi:10.1093/cdn/nzz054
- Association of American Indian Physicians
- American Medical Association