September 2024
9/13: Social Health: The Overlooked Pillar of Health
Emily Balon, MD
Family Medicine Residency of Western MT
Kalispell, MT
Emily Balon, MD is a third-year family medicine resident at the Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana. She earned her MD at the University of Cincinnati after graduating from Wright State University with a BA in Anthropology. Dating back to her undergraduate studies, she has had an interest in human interconnectedness and how it relates to health.
9/20: Topic- Pain
Chris Caldwell, DO
Providence Spine and Pain Center
Missoula, MT
9/27: TBA
McKenzie Keeling-Garcia, DO
Family Medicine Residency of Western MT
Kalispell, MT
October 2024
10/4: IDeA State Pediatric Clinical Trials Network
Paul Smith, DO CPG
Community Medical Center
Missoula, MT
10/11: Cancer & Exercise
John Quindry, PhD
University of MT
Missoula, MT
10/18: Disability Sexologist
Leeann Beers, PhD
Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities
Association of University Centers on Disabilities
10/25: Syphilis
Kristi Aklestad, RN
Public Health and Human Services, MT Human Rights Network
Helena, MT
November 2024
11/1: Topic-TBA
Michael Miller, PharmD
Bryndin Mckenzie, PharmD
St Patrick Hospital
Missoula, MT
11/8: Topic-TBA
Donald K. Warne, MD MPH
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland
Donald Warne, MD, MPH, joined the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health as Co-Director on September 1, 2022. He is an acclaimed physician, one of the world’s preeminent scholars in Indigenous health, health education, policy and equity as well as a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Dr. Warne will also serve as Johns Hopkins University’s new Provost Fellow for Indigenous Health Policy.
Warne comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men, and is a celebrated researcher of chronic health inequities. He is also an educational leader who created the first Indigenous health-focused Master of Public Health and PhD programs in the U.S. or Canada at the North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota, respectively. Warne previously served at the University of North Dakota as professor of Family and Community Medicine and associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as director of the Indians Into Medicine and Public Health programs at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Warne’s career is informed by rich work and life experiences. He served the Pima Indian population in Arizona as a primary care physician and later worked as a staff clinician with the NIH. He has also served as Health Policy Research director for the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona, executive director of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board, and faculty member at the Indian Legal Program of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.
Warne has received many awards recognizing his research accomplishments, educational leadership, and service work, including the American Public Health Association’s Helen Rodríguez-Trías Award for Social Justice and the Explorer’s Club 50 People Changing the World. Warne received a Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University, Doctor of Medicine degree from Stanford University’s School of Medicine, and a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
11/15: Harm Reduction
Lindsy Benes, PhD RN
Montana State University
Missoula MT Campus
11/22: Topic-TBA
Jason Shooshtari, PharmD
Harrison Braidt, PharmD
St Patrick Hospital
Missoula, MT
11/29: HOLIDAY, NO PRESENTATION
December 2024
12/6: Topic- Climate Psychology
Sarah Aronson, MFA LCSW
Missoula, MT
12/13: TBA
Conner Rogan, MD
Family Medicine Residency of Western MT
Missoula
12/20: HOLIDAY-NO PRESENTATION
12/27: HOLIDAY-NO PRESENTATION
January 2025
TBD
February 2025
TBD
March 2025
TBD
April 2025
TBD
May 2025
TBD