Welcome -- Conference focus: research and training opportunities for American Indian/Alaska native students -- Keynote address: the choice of a career: the hidden Indian scientist -- Public lecture: Health, science, and the American Indian: responsibility of the university -- Disease states and important research areas for American Indians/Alaska natives -- Introduction -- Cardiology -- Introduction: vasa vasorum and neovascularization of atherosclerotic plaques in human coronary arteries -- Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in American Indians: research directions -- Impact of lifestyle on cardiovascular disease in American Indians -- Drug-related and behavioral disorders -- Introduction -- American Indian alcohol use and abuse: patterns and epidemiology.
(cont) Fetal alcohol syndrome and American Indians: a positive challenge in public health and prevention -- Treatment and prevention of suicide among American Indians -- Depression and related mental illnesses among American Indians: the current state of the art in treatment -- Metabolic disorders -- Introduction -- Obesity and diabetes in American Indians and their interrelationships among the Pima Indians of Arizona -- Historical approach to diet and community support systems for chronic disease -- Compromised immune system -- Introduction -- Cancer death rate rises in native Americans with assimilation and as more live longer -- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) -- AIDS: a view from a community nurse -- Training methods and opportunities -- Introduction -- American Indian students -- Background, training, and careers: where we have come from, what we seek.
(cont) Preserving the circle -- Panel discussions -- Acculturation of the American Indian/Alaska native student to the college and university environment -- Traditional American Indian approach to learning and knowledge in the formal college and university setting -- Recruitment, retention, and support of American Indian/Alaska native students -- Student research presentations -- Introduction -- Abstracts of presented papers -- Presence of anti-rickettsial antibodies in selected members of the Navajo population -- SH and S-S concentration in sperm of mice with different proportions of malformed cells -- Isolation procedures for obtaining pathogens from environmental sources -- Approach to the solid-phase synthesis of 2',5'-linked oligoadenylates.
(cont) Family focused self-help group: dually disabled -- Transfer of antibiotic resistance from Shigella to other enterics -- Ge-We-Tah-Kaa-Mi-Gook-Quay -- Sequencing of the dengue virus type-4, strain H-241 envelope glycoprotein using polymerase chain reaction products -- Conference summation -- Science and the Indian student: educating the Indian student in colleges and universities.
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