Biografia
Tassy Parker, PhD, RN, é socióloga médica e professora titular de Medicina da Família e da Comunidade e professora nas Faculdades de Enfermagem e Saúde da População do Centro de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade do Novo México. O Dr. Parker é um membro inscrito e ancião da Nação Seneca e pertence ao Clã Beaver. O Seneca Nation inclui cinco territórios em Western NY e tem uma inscrição de 8,500 cidadãos. Ela é um membro nomeado pelo Conselho do Seneca Nation Health Board. Por quase duas décadas, o Dr. Parker tem servido à população nativa urbana de Albuquerque como um executivo do Conselho de Diretores da First Nations Community HealthSource. Seu serviço nacional atual inclui o NIH Todos nós Research Program Advisory Panel and the International Association for Indigenous Aging executive and national committees. Dr. Parker?s leadership positions at the UNM HSC include Associate Vice Chancellor for American Indian Health Research and Education, and Director of the Center for Native American Health (CNAH). CNAH is a special project of the NM Legislature that serves all Tribes, Pueblos, Nations, and urban Native communities in NM, and consists of three priority cores: Native American Student and Tribal Health Workforce Development, Public Health Education and Capacity Expansion, and Health Equity Research. Dr. Parker mentors a number of Indigenous health sciences students and early career scientists at UNM and nationally. She provides mentoring and education to mid-career and senior scientists and health care providers interested in improving knowledge and cultural humility competency in American Indian community engagement and health issues. Dr. Parker has a robust collaborative research portfolio established through an innovative national American Indian research network of satellite centers and initiated by her decades? long relationships with colleagues at the University of Colorado and Washington State University. Study topics of her currently funded nine NIH grants include hypertension and cardiovascular disease, COVID-19 testing and vaccine hesitancy/mistrust, suicide prevention among young adults in primary care, opioid and other substance abuse as suicide risk factors, diabetes, several grants that address Alzheimer?s disease and related dementias, and development of a cadre of Native American early career scientists. Significant, tangible results of Dr. Parker?s community based participatory research include studies that resulted in the implementation of depression screening in American Indian primary care using the Patient Health Questionnaire, and the founding and development of the All Nations Wellness and Healing Center in the southeast quadrant of Albuquerque to address the social determinants of health for, predominately, American Indians experiencing homelessness, poverty, violence, racism and discrimination, under- and unemployment, food insecurity, and insufficient transportation.
Educação
Ph.D. em Sociologia Médica
Universidade do Novo México
Albuquerque, NM
MA, Sociologia
Universidade do Novo México
Albuquerque, NM
BA, Sociologia
Universidade do Novo México
Albuquerque, NM
Graduação: Bacharel em Sociologia, University of New Mexico
Graduado: Mestre em Artes em Sociologia, University of New Mexico
Doutoral: Doutor em Filosofia em Sociologia Médica, University of New Mexico
Gênero
Feminino