Yvette D. Roubideaux (Rosebud Sioux), M.D., M.P.H., was confirmed as the director of the Indian Health Service by the U.S. Senate in May. Since then, she has been very busy. Sure, she has been putting a lot of time into administering a $4.3 billion national health care delivery system, but she has also been fielding loads of inquiries from the media. Roubideaux is, after all, the first woman to head the IHS in its 54-year history.AIR caught up with Roubideaux this summer. We posed some questions on why she was picked to lead the IHS, what she hopes to accomplish, about the big boost the agency got from the Recovery Act and could get in the federal government’s FY 2010 budget and health care reform. [Read more]
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