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The Mind/Body Connection


SATELLITE SEMINAR #5 Tuesday November 19, 2002 7:30-8:30 pm Topic: The
Mind/Body Connection Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord is Associate Dean for student and
Minority Affairs and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Dartmouth Medical
School. Dr. Alvord is widely regarded for combining modern medicine with the
traditions of her Native American heritage. In her practice in the Navajo
community, she has blended high-tech surgical skills with an understanding of a
culture rooted in the spiritual. It was her Navajo heritage that taught her
balance is the key to health. A cum laude graduate of Dartmouth and Stanford
Medical School (1985), Alvord trained in surgery at Stanford University
Hospital, serving as chief resident in 1990-91. When her training was
complete, the federal Indian Health Service assigned her to the job of general
surgeon at the Gallup Medical Center in Gallup, NM. Her book, The Scalpel and
the Silver Bear, relates her attempt to bring state-of-the-art medical skills to
a Native American culture. Dr. Alvord has served on several national
government panels providing funding for research or setting standards and
guidelines for health care.

The event will begin at 7:00 pm with refreshments and an introduction in Room
3-172.


Jodi Oriel
Student Center
11/15/2002