This chapter profiles Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, the first Navajo woman surgeon who pioneered integrating traditional Indigenous healing with Western medicine. Born in 1958 in Crownpoint, New Mexico, on the Navajo reservation, she is a member of the Tsinnaajinii’ (Black Streaked Wood/Ponderosa Pine) clan and the Ashihii’ Diné (Salt People) clan (National Library of Medicine, Biography—Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_7.html , n.d.; Dartmouth College, Integrating healing properties of traditional Native medicine with Western practice. https://home.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=69276 , 2023, January 26). She graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1979 with a double major in psychology and sociology, modified with a focus on Native American studies (Dartmouth College, Integrating healing properties of traditional Native medicine with Western practice. https://home.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=69276 , 2023, January 26; Ada Lovelace Day, ALD23: Dr Lori Alvord, surgeon. https://findingada.com/blog/2023/10/11/ald23-dr-lori-alvord-surgeon/ , 2023, October 11; Minority Business Review, Lori Arviso Alvord (Navajo Nation). https://minoritybusinessreview.com/lori-arviso-alvord-navajo-nation/ , 2023, December 22). After initially struggling with sciences, she excelled in pre-medical coursework at University of New Mexico before earning her MD from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1985 (National Library of Medicine, Biography—Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_7.html , n.d.; Astria Health, Lori Alvord, MD. https://www.astria.health/provider-directory/provider/lori-alvord , n.d.; Stanford Magazine, Through Navajo eyes. https://stanfordmag.org/contents/through-navajo-eyes , 2000, January/February). She completed a six-year general surgery residency at Stanford University Hospital and became board-certified in 1994, becoming the first Navajo (Diné) woman ever to achieve this distinction (National Library of Medicine, Biography—Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_7.html , n.d.; Ada Lovelace Day, ALD23: Dr Lori Alvord, surgeon. https://findingada.com/blog/2023/10/11/ald23-dr-lori-alvord-surgeon/ , 2023, October 11; Astria Health, Lori Alvord, MD. https://www.astria.health/provider-directory/provider/lori-alvord ; n.d.; Association of American Indian Physicians, Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord being honored with J.E. Wallace Sterling Lifetime Achievement Award in Medicine. https://www.aaip.org/news/dr-lori-arviso-alvord-being-honored-with-j-e-wallace-sterling-lifetime-achievement-award-in-medicine , n.d.). Practicing at Gallup Indian Medical Center with the Indian Health Service from 1991 to 1997, she learned to combine surgical expertise with Navajo healing concepts of hózhó (harmony and balance) (National Library of Medicine, Biography—Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_7.html , n.d.; Minority Business Review, Lori Arviso Alvord (Navajo Nation). https://minoritybusinessreview.com/lori-arviso-alvord-navajo-nation/ , 2023, December 22). Her memoir, “The Scalpel and the Silver Bear” (1999), co-authored with Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt, has sold over 50,000 copies and became required reading in medical schools nationwide (Astria Health, Lori Alvord, MD. https://www.astria.health/provider-directory/provider/lori-alvord , n.d.; Amazon, The scalpel and the silver bear: the first Navajo woman surgeon combines Western medicine and traditional healing. https://www.amazon.com/Scalpel-Silver-Bear-Combines-Traditional/dp/0553378007 , n.d.). The book won the American Medical Writers Association Will Solimene Award of Excellence (1999) and the Circles Book Award from Georgia College and State University (2000) (Astria Health, Lori Alvord, MD. https://www.astria.health/provider-directory/provider/lori-alvord , n.d.; University of Wisconsin Interfaces. Lori Alvord. n.d. https://interfaces.che.wisc.edu/lori-alvord/ ). She has held leadership positions at Dartmouth Medical School (1997–2009), Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health (2003–present), Central Michigan University College of Medicine (2010–2012), and University of Arizona College of Medicine (2012–2014) (Dartmouth College, Integrating healing properties of traditional Native medicine with Western practice. https://home.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=69276 , 2023, January 26; Ada Lovelace Day, ALD23: Dr Lori Alvord, surgeon. https://findingada.com/blog/2023/10/11/ald23-dr-lori-alvord-surgeon/ , 2023, October 11; Astria Health, Lori Alvord, MD. https://www.astria.health/provider-directory/provider/lori-alvord , n.d.). In 2018, she received the J.E. Wallace Sterling Lifetime Achievement Award in Medicine from the Stanford Medicine Alumni Association (Association of American Indian Physicians, Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord being honored with J.E. Wallace Sterling Lifetime Achievement Award in Medicine. https://www.aaip.org/news/dr-lori-arviso-alvord-being-honored-with-j-e-wallace-sterling-lifetime-achievement-award-in-medicine , n.d.; Astria Health, Stanford University honors Astria Health general surgeon, Lori Arviso Alvord, MD. https://www.astria.health/news/stanford-university-honors-astria-health-general-surgeon-lori-arviso-alvord-md , 2018, December 3). Dr. Alvord currently serves as Chief of Staff and general surgeon at Astria Health in Washington State (Astria Health, Lori Alvord, MD. https://www.astria.health/provider-directory/provider/lori-alvord , n.d.).

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This chapter profiles Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, the first Navajo woman surgeon who pioneered integrating traditional Indigenous healing with Western medicine. Born in 1958 in Crownpoint, New Mexico, on the Navajo reservation, she is a member of the Tsinnaajinii’ (Black Streaked Wood/Ponderosa Pine) clan and the Ashihii’ Diné (Salt People) clan (National Library of Medicine, Biography—Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_7.html , n.d.; Dartmouth College, Integrating healing properties of traditional Native medicine with Western practice. https://home.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=69276 , 2023, January 26). She graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1979 with a double major in psychology and sociology, modified with a focus on Native American studies (Dartmouth College, Integrating healing properties of traditional Native medicine with Western practice. https://home.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=69276 , 2023, January 26; Ada Lovelace Day, ALD23: Dr Lori Alvord, surgeon. https://findingada.com/blog/2023/10/11/ald23-dr-lori-alvord-surgeon/ , 2023, October 11; Minority Business Review, Lori Arviso Alvord (Navajo Nation). https://minoritybusinessreview.com/lori-arviso-alvord-navajo-nation/ , 2023, December 22). After initially struggling with sciences, she excelled in pre-medical coursework at University of New Mexico before earning her MD from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1985 (National Library of Medicine, Biography—Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_7.html , n.d.; Astria Health, Lori Alvord, MD. https://www.astria.health/provider-directory/provider/lori-alvord , n.d.; Stanford Magazine, Through Navajo eyes. https://stanfordmag.org/contents/through-navajo-eyes , 2000, January/February). She completed a six-year general surgery residency at Stanford University Hospital and became board-certified in 1994, becoming the first Navajo (Diné) woman ever to achieve this distinction (National Library of Medicine, Biography—Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_7.html , n.d.; Ada Lovelace Day, ALD23: Dr Lori Alvord, surgeon. https://findingada.com/blog/2023/10/11/ald23-dr-lori-alvord-surgeon/ , 2023, October 11; Astria Health, Lori Alvord, MD. https://www.astria.health/provider-directory/provider/lori-alvord ; n.d.; Association of American Indian Physicians, Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord being honored with J.E. Wallace Sterling Lifetime Achievement Award in Medicine. https://www.aaip.org/news/dr-lori-arviso-alvord-being-honored-with-j-e-wallace-sterling-lifetime-achievement-award-in-medicine , n.d.). Practicing at Gallup Indian Medical Center with the Indian Health Service from 1991 to 1997, she learned to combine surgical expertise with Navajo healing concepts of hózhó (harmony and balance) (National Library of Medicine, Biography—Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord. Changing the Face of Medicine. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_7.html , n.d.; Minority Business Review, Lori Arviso Alvord (Navajo Nation). https://minoritybusinessreview.com/lori-arviso-alvord-navajo-nation/ , 2023, December 22). Her memoir, “The Scalpel and the Silver Bear” (1999), co-authored with Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt, has sold over 50,000 copies and became required reading in medical schools nationwide (Astria Health, Lori Alvord, MD. https://www.astria.health/provider-directory/provider/lori-alvord , n.d.; Amazon, The scalpel and the silver bear: the first Navajo woman surgeon combines Western medicine and traditional healing. https://www.amazon.com/Scalpel-Silver-Bear-Combines-Traditional/dp/0553378007 , n.d.). The book won the American Medical Writers Association Will Solimene Award of Excellence (1999) and the Circles Book Award from Georgia College and State University (2000) (Astria Health, Lori Alvord, MD. https://www.astria.health/provider-directory/provider/lori-alvord , n.d.; University of Wisconsin Interfaces. Lori Alvord. n.d. https://interfaces.che.wisc.edu/lori-alvord/ ). She has held leadership positions at Dartmouth Medical School (1997–2009), Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health (2003–present), Central Michigan University College of Medicine (2010–2012), and University of Arizona College of Medicine (2012–2014) (Dartmouth College, Integrating healing properties of traditional Native medicine with Western practice. https://home.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=69276 , 2023, January 26; Ada Lovelace Day, ALD23: Dr Lori Alvord, surgeon. https://findingada.com/blog/2023/10/11/ald23-dr-lori-alvord-surgeon/ , 2023, October 11; Astria Health, Lori Alvord, MD. https://www.astria.health/provider-directory/provider/lori-alvord , n.d.). In 2018, she received the J.E. Wallace Sterling Lifetime Achievement Award in Medicine from the Stanford Medicine Alumni Association (Association of American Indian Physicians, Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord being honored with J.E. Wallace Sterling Lifetime Achievement Award in Medicine. https://www.aaip.org/news/dr-lori-arviso-alvord-being-honored-with-j-e-wallace-sterling-lifetime-achievement-award-in-medicine , n.d.; Astria Health, Stanford University honors Astria Health general surgeon, Lori Arviso Alvord, MD. https://www.astria.health/news/stanford-university-honors-astria-health-general-surgeon-lori-arviso-alvord-md , 2018, December 3). Dr. Alvord currently serves as Chief of Staff and general surgeon at Astria Health in Washington State (Astria Health, Lori Alvord, MD. https://www.astria.health/provider-directory/provider/lori-alvord , n.d.).