Indian Health Staff in the ACOG Today News
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- Healthcare needs grow, money doesn’t
- Haffner Native Women’s Health Award
- Teaching ob/gyn care for American Indians
- Committee provides consultation to AI/AN hospitals
- Two Fellows honored for decades of serving Native American women
- US OB/GYNs helping to create residency program in Kabul
- William Haffner MD receives ACOG award
- ACOG cervical cancer screening recommendations
- Week calls attention to plight of uninsured
- Project focuses on VBAC
- Preparing for emergency cesarean
Two Fellows honored for decades of serving Native American women
ACOG and the IHS recognized William H.J. Haffner, MD and Alan G. Waxman MD for their extraordinary service to American Indian and Alaska Native women. Dr. Haffner was recognized for 30 years of service, Dr. Waxman for 25 years. Story (WORD - 25k)
From left, Michael H. Trujillo, MD, MPH, Director of the Indian
Health Service; Linda R. Chambliss MD, Chair of ACOG’s Committee on American
Indian Affairs; Dr. Waxman; and Dr. Haffner.
ACOG cervical cancer screening recommendations
- Evidence-based Practice Bulletin in August Green Journal (WORD 36k)
- Alan Waxman MD
- IHS 1976 - 2000 - primarily at Gallup Indian Medical Center
- OB/GYN Chief Clinical Consultant, IHS,1994 - 2000
- Currently faculty University of New Mexico, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Consultant: ACOG Committee on American Indian Affairs
William Haffner MD receives ACOG Award
- Dr. Haffner receives the 2002 ACOG Distinguished Service Award
- USPHS 1971 - 2001
- Gallup Indian Medical Center 1971 - 1981
- IHS OB/GYN Senior Clinician 1980 -1994
- PHS Chief Medical Officer, 1990 - 1994
- F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, OB/GYN Department, Professor (current); former Chair of the OB/GYN Department, 1992 – 2003; Acting Associate Dean for Faculty Development 2006 – present
- Clinical practice National Naval Medical Center
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