Follow The Medicine

A gathering of Indigenous Practitioners, Behavior Health Specialist, Medical Health Professionals, and Naturopathic Physicians showcasing the integration and advancement of healing therapies with holistic wellness.

What we Value:

Honor Indigenous Cosmology

This is our world-view, our lifestyle, and our ancestral

practice of medicine.

Attuning to Spiritualiy

Our core belief system of our existence that keeps humanity

centered and aligns our place-to-purpose with the Universe.

Expand Indigenous Medicine

A global movement of traditional practices to heal

by means of ceremony, plant medicine, and admonitions by

the medicine person/practitioners.

Aligning with Holistic Medicine

Advocate the intersection of various contemporary

holistic modalities (naturopathic, western, indigenous) that

addressess the Body, Mind, Spirit connection.

SPEAKERS AND FACILITATORS

Dr. Molina is Pascua Yaqui and Yavapai-Apache. He is the Corporate Compliance Officer for Native Health, an Urban Indian Health Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the former Health Systems Director for the Kenaitze Indian Tribe in Kenai, Alaska. His previous positions were as Chief Executive Officer for Phoenix Indian Medical Center and as Assistant Director and Medical Director for Arizona’s Medicaid program division for the American Indian Health Program. Dr. Molina is the founder of Las Fuentes Health Clinic of Guadalupe, a community medical clinic in his hometown of Guadalupe, Arizona. He is also a Vietnam-era U.S. Navy Veteran.

Dr. Molina is a graduate of the University of Arizona College of Medicine and the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. His specialty training is in obstetrics and gynecology, with his clinical practice having been with the Indian Health Service and Las Fuentes Health Clinic of Guadalupe. Dr. Molina’s academic interests are in Indian health care law and policy related to health care disparities, patient-centered medicine, and research in Indigenous communities. Dr. Molina has published numerous medical articles on the integration of culture and medicine. He has been the recipient of numerous leadership awards, including an honorary doctoral degree in letters, litterarum humanarum (L.H.D.), from A.T. Still University of Health Sciences in Kirksville, Missouri, for his humanitarian work. Dr. Molina’s hobbies are traveling internationally and participating in Indigenous cultural events with his wife, Stephanie Big Crow (Oglala Lakota), and their daughter, Ta’te Was’aka Win (Strong Wind Woman).

Dr. Rosie Banker, ND. is a board certified Naturopathic Physician who earned her degree from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine (SCNM) in Tempe, Arizona. At SCNM Rosie was president of the Applied Kinesiology Club and had a clinical focus on Applied Kinesiology, Physical and Chinese medicines. Prior to studying Naturopathy, Dr. Banker studied Biochemistry at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree with honors. In her free time, Dr. Banker enjoys spending time with her family and pets, hiking, camping, snowboarding and pretty much any other outdoor activity. Dr. Banker is consistently attending seminars to improve her knowledge base to better serve her patients. She also works at her alma mater SCNM to help mold the Naturopaths of the future.

Dr. Michelle Kahn-John, PhD, RN - PMHNP-BC, GNP: A Clinical Associate at the College of Nursing at the University of Arizona, a member of the Diné (Navajo) Nation. Dr. Kahn-John is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and Geriatric Nurse practitioner and has 20 years of clinical experience with the Indian Health Services on the Navajo Nation and with Alaska Natives in Sitka, Alaska. Dr. Kahn-John’s research focuses on the protective relationship between American Indian cultural practices (language, stories, ceremony, spirituality) and physical and psychological health of American Indian populations. She is currently the secretary for a Diné traditional healer organization on the Navajo Nation. Dr. Kahn-John is working on the development of culturally tailored strength-based health delivery methods for American Indian populations as she continues to advocate for innovative and culturally tailored health care delivery models. In her work with tribes, Michelle has served as the director of a large, Indian Health Service mental health department (inpatient and outpatient) over a period of seven years and was successful in establishing an integrated model of healthcare delivery that combined Diné Traditional healing interventions alongside western medicine at the Fort Defiance Indian Hospital in AZ. She was instrumental in establishing the first inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit on the Navajo Nation (also an integrated model). She has skills and experience as an instructor, clinician, a health care administrator, a program developer and as a researcher. Her cultural insights lend to her expertise on the development of tailored, individualized, and culturally relevant health related health and wellness options for AIs.

Gregg Garibay, B.A. is a co-founder and Practitioner of Presence of the Psylogia Institute for the Development of Consciousness, Purpose, and Transformation. An Arizona native, he is a graduate of Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and currently a research/lab assistant with ASU’s psychology department at the Tempe campus. Gregg works with individuals to unlock their unique gifts, resolve setbacks, heal past wounds and trauma, and get them plugged-in to living a life of deep purpose and gratitude.

Ron Interpreter, B.A. is an Entrepreneur, Practitioner, Philanthropist and father to 3 beautiful children Ron is a member of the Navajo Nation with maternal relations of the “White Streak in a Rock” of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, and paternal relations of the “Many Goats” of the Navajo Nation. An accomplished Intuitive Practitioner; Ron facilitates a healing modality he calls “Beeh Ji Zhoni – Beauty Within” to set healthy intentions and initiate self-discipline to create an abundant lifestyle. Synergistic and conscientious nature of being both professional and amiable, Ron has over 25 years of corporate experience in Business Administration, Philanthropy, Human Service, Academic Instruction, and Film / Entertainment.

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