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Bret Benally Thompson, MD

Bret Benally Thompson serves as NACHP’s Director of Indigenous Health and Cultural Guidance, and is the Principal Investigator for the Indian Health Service Indians Into Medicine (INMED), Wisconsin Partnership Program IIMAGIN and Oneida Food Sovereignty grants. Benally Thompson is a member of the White Earth Nation, is a palliative care physician at UW Health and Meriter, and has been involved with NACHP since before its inception.

As an alumnus of University of Minnesota-Duluth, he was part of their program to support Native American students during medical school. He completed both his family medicine residency and a fellowship in palliative care and hospice medicine in Alaska.