Aboriginal Health Science Initiative Medicine Wheel Speaker Series

Aboriginal Health Science Initiative

Medicine Wheel Speaker Series

Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2011

Reception 6:30-7:00pm

Hosted by Aboriginal Health Interest Group

Talk 7:00-8:00pm

with guest speaker Lisa Perley-Dutcher,

Director of Aboriginal Health Human Resource Initiative, UNB

Sharing the talk:

Cultural Competency & Cultural Safety 

in the context of providing health services

to Aboriginal Peoples

Location: Theatre A, Tupper Builidng

Biography:

Lisa Perley-Dutcher is a Maliseet woman from the Tobique First Nation. She graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 1990 with a Bachelor of Nursing degree.  She started her career working as a psychiatric nurse, then as a community health nurse for St. Mary’s First Nation. Lisa subsequently worked as the First Nations and Inuit Home and Community Care Coordinator for New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island First Nations.  She served as President of the Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada and in this capacity developed a best practice guideline on cultural competency in collaboration with the Registered Nurses of Ontario. She is currently the director of the Aboriginal Health Human Resources Initiative at UNB, Faculty of Nursing. She is enrolled in the Masters of Nursing Program at UNB and her studies are focused on developing cultural competency with faculty.

For more information please contact Kara Paul at AHSI kara.paul@dal.ca or dalahig@gmail.com