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Indigenous champion wins award for outstanding achievement

23 Nov 2006 15:50

Kelly Moore, MD, Chair of the Indigenous Peoples Working Group of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) campaign for a United Nation’s Resolution on diabetes, has been named the 2006 Indian Physician of the Year by the Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP).

Beyond her role for the Unite for Diabetes campaign, Dr Moore is a clinical consultant in the Indian Health Service Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The award was presented to Dr Moore at the recent 35th Annual AAIP Meeting and National Health Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, by Dr Susan Sloan, President of the AAIP Board of Directors.

“The Indian Health Service is honored to have Dr Moore selected for this prestigious award," said IHS Director Charles W Grim, DDS, MHSA. "This award represents the quality and dedication of IHS employees who are helping to improve the lives and health of so many American Indians and Alaska Natives.”

The International Diabetes Federation is extremely proud of Dr Moore’s commitment to diabetes awareness especially among indigenous peoples.

“The Unite for Diabetes campaign is delighted with Dr Moore’s global advocacy on behalf of people living with diabetes, her selection as 2006 Indian Physician of the Year is a deserved accolade for outstanding achievement,” said Martin Silink, President-Elect of IDF.

Dr Moore is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma, is a nationally recognized expert in type 2 diabetes and childhood obesity in American Indian and Alaska Native youth. She serves as a liaison member for AAIP on the Committee on Native American Child Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr Moore has helped to develop educational and health communication materials, primarily for American Indian and Alaska Native audiences. She is a member of the American Diabetes Association Youth Project Design Team, the American Diabetes Association Awakening the Spirit Team, and the National Institutes of Health Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools Steering Committee. She serves as Chair of the American Indian and Alaska Native Workgroup of the National Diabetes Education Program.

In 1987 she began her career with the IHS on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. During the mid-1990s, she served as the Clinical Director and sole pediatrician for the Pima Indians of the Gila River Indian Community of southern Arizona. While serving the Pima Indians, she became interested in the growing public health concern of type 2 diabetes in American Indian youth and began her clinical research.

Since that time, Dr Moore has served the IHS as a medical administrator and diabetes consultant. Along with her interests in type 2 diabetes in childhood and its links with childhood obesity, Dr Moore served as the IHS Chief Clinical Consultant for Pediatrics from 2002 to 2004.

She is a 1983 graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and completed a residency in pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Tulsa Medical College.

Dr Moore is a commissioned officer in the US Public Health Service and holds the rank of Captain.

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