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357 Editors and Contributors Editors Kathleen A. Culhane-Pera, M.D., M.A., is a family physician at Ramsey Family and Community Medicine Residency and West Side Community Health Center. She holds a master’s degree in anthropology. Dr. Kathie, as she is known in the Hmong community, has worked with the Hmong since 1983 and has conducted ethnographic research with Hmong in Northern Thailand. She lives in St. Paul with her husband, Tim, and two children, Sam and Megan. Dorothy E. Vawter, Ph.D., Associate Director, Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics, directs the Minnesota Center’s collaborative work on cross-cultural health care ethics. She has published on cross-cultural health care in The Journal of Clinical Ethics and Minnesota Medicine and co-chaired three conferences for clinicians on traditional Hmong health beliefs and practices. She completed her doctoral studies at Georgetown University and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Phua Xiong, M.D., graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1996 and is a family practice physician at the St. Paul Family Medical Center in St. Paul. Dr. Xiong, who is dedicated to providing culturally responsive care, teaches others about the Hmong and Hmong health care, and acts as cultural broker, advocate, and liaison for both Hmong and Americans. Barbara Babbitt, B.S.N., R.N., M.A., spent many years working in both medical and psychiatric nursing. In 1995 she began working with the Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics in the areas of cultural diversity and health care decisionmaking. Out of this work grew a commitment to improve health care delivery to Minnesota’s growing immigrant and refugee populations. In partnership with other healthcare professionals she continues to research , plan, and implement changes in the way health care is delivered to culturally diverse individuals and families. Mary M. Solberg, Ph.D., M.S.W., is a member of the religion faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College. She was Project Editor for the Encyclopedia of Bioethics and a co-editor of Ethical Challenges in Managed Care: A Casebook. Dr. Solberg is the author of Compelling Knowledge : A Feminist Proposal for an Epistemology of the Cross.Living in Europe and LatinAmerica, working with refugees, and forming part of a cross-cultural family have all deeply affected her work as an ethicist and theologian. 358 Healing by Heart Contributors Elizabeth C.Walker Anderson, B.A., was born in Taiwan and grew up in Southeast Asia. She spent eight years in Thailand interviewing refugees seeking resettlement in the United States. For two years she was a Political Asylum Officer for the INS. More recently, she was the Director of International Services at Regions Hospital in St. Paul. Ms. Walker helped found the Center for Cross-Cultural Health and is completing a law degree. Bruce Bliatout, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.Hyg., Dr.Ac., a Hmong-American, is the Director of the TB Prevention and Treatment Center, Multnomah County Health Department, Oregon. He has served for 17 years on the Governor’s Medical Assistants Advisory Board of the State of Oregon and for 20 years on the Board of Directors of the Hmong-American Association of Oregon. Dr. Bliatout is the author of Hmong sudden unexpected nocturnal death: A cultural study and numerous articles on cultural health. Helen B. Bruce, R.G.N., S.C.M., M.T.D., C.N.M. is a native of Scotland and has been a midwife for more than 30 years. As a new immigrant she found great privilege working with a group of midwives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where her particular responsibility was to the Southeast Asian immigrant populations, many of whom were Hmong. Donald Brunnquell, Ph.D., is the Director of the Office of Ethics for Children’s Hospitals and Clinics in Minnesota, where his work involves consultation, education and policy development . He received his doctorate in child clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1981 and is a Licensed Psychologist in Minnesota. As the 1991 recipient of a Bush Foundation Leadership Fellows grant, he completed a master’s degree in philosophy with a concentration in ethics. Dr. Brunnquell is an Instructor for the Institute of Child Development and Clinical Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches ethics in applied psychology. Karen G. Gervais, Ph.D., is the Director of the Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics. She received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her Ph.D. in philosophy from the...

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