 Dr. Jeffrey A. Henderson is the founder, president and CEO of the Black Hills Center for American Indian Health in Rapid City, South Dakota. He is a co-investigator on the Strong Heart Study at the Dakota Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, and an assistant professor at the Native Elder Research Center at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. He is a former-Chair on the Secretary's National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Henderson earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of California, San Diego. He conducted his residency and earned a master's degree in public health at the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Henderson served as clinical director and supervisory medical officer at the U.S. PHS Indian Hospital in Eagle Butte, South Dakota from 1992 to 1994. He earned the Indian Health Service Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Leadership in 1994. He is a member of several professional organizations including the Association of American Indian Physicians. Dr. Henderson has served as a reviewer on several NIH studies and awards. More than 20 of his peer-reviewed articles have been published in medical journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association. Also, Dr. Henderson has written two books: Mashkiki: Old Medicine Nourishing the New and the Handbook of Ethical Research with Ethnocultural Populations and Communities.
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