“My priority is to provide quality psychiatric care as a Dine woman psychiatrist to the Native people I serve.” -- Dr. Mary H. Roessel. Read more about Dr. Roessel and her impact. WomensHistoryMonth WomenInMedicine NLM_NIH
Dr. Mary H. Roessel was the first person in her Navajo community to attend medical school and become a doctor.Dr. Mary H. Roessel was the first woman Navajo psychiatrist to provide Indian Health Service clinical care in New Mexico.Dine
traditions with my western medical knowledge. As a Native American psychiatrist, I felt I could make an impact on relieving emotional and psychological illness in my Native patients, with the"As a Native American psychiatrist, I understand the psychological, social, emotional, and cultural issues confronting Native patients," says Dr. Mary Hasbah Roessel."This helps cut through the barriers that so often confront our Native people when they negotiate the western medical field.
Receiving her doctor of medicine degree in psychiatry from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 1987, Dr. Roessel was the first person from her Navajo community to attend medical school and become a doctor. She was not the first in her family to practice the healing arts, however. Her grandfather was a Navajo healer. As a child, Dr. Roessel remembers being inspired by the friendship between her grandfather and Dr. Karl Menninger, a psychiatrist and family friend.
In 1987, Dr. Roessel began her psychiatry residency and internship in Albuquerque at the University of New Mexico. After passing her psychiatric boards, Dr. Roessel spent two years as an American Psychiatric Association/National Institutes of Mental Health fellow and trainee consultant. Since that time Dr. Roessel has served as a general psychiatrist to both outpatient and inpatient populations in New Mexico.
Dr. Roessel is a member of the Association of American Indian Physicians and of the American Psychiatric Association Committee of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiian Psychiatrists. In 1991 she was awarded the Senescu Award for Community Psychiatry by the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry, recognizing her work with the local populationsThe completion of medical school was the biggest obstacle.
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