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Monica Bertagnolli: I recently welcomed Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to NIH

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Dec 28, 2024, 18:19

Monica Bertagnolli: I recently welcomed Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to NIH

Monica Bertagnolli, Director of the National Institute of Health, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“I recently welcomed Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to NIH for the Federal Indian Boarding School Healing Summit.

This gathering of scientific leaders, community practitioners and boarding school survivors aims to identify initiatives to address the inter-generational trauma caused by the Indian Civilization Act and federal boarding school policies on American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities.

NIH is honored to support this healing effort.”

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Monica Bertagnolli is the Director of the National Institute of Health (NIH), USA. She is the President of Alliance for Clinical Trials In Oncology Foundation.

She previously served as the Richard E. Wilson Professor of Surgery in the field of surgical oncology at Harvard Medical School, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a member of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Treatment and Sarcoma Centers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Dr. Bertagnolli is the Founding Chair of the minimal Common Oncology Data Elements (mCODE) executive committee and has held multiple positions nationally, including being Past President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

In 2021, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, having previously served on the National Academies National Cancer Policy Forum.

Debra Anne Haaland is an American politician currently serving as the 54th United States Secretary of the Interior. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented New Mexico’s 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021 and chaired the New Mexico Democratic Party from 2015 to 2017.

As an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, Haaland is one of the first Native American women to serve in the U.S. Cabinet, marking a historic milestone in American politics.