Earth: Empowering All Relatives to Heal

Noshene Ranjbar, MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Integrative Psychiatry Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson. She feels fortunate to live and work on the Tohono O’odham Nation homelands and the lands of the Pascua Yaqui tribe.

Noshene holds a bachelor’s degree and an MD from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Her local and state outreach is extensive, including Tucson, Phoenix, and Prescott, all in Arizona; Standing Rock Reservation straddling North and South Dakota; Bismarck, North Dakota; and Boston.

Her publications include books, monographs, and journals; op-ed pieces, blogs, podcasts, and video interviews; and regional, national, and international conference presentations. Her list of honors and awards is equally lengthy.

Noshene comes to our third-Saturday discussion with high praise for the mind-body medicine training she and her colleagues are offering to Indigenous populations.