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Healing Beyond Boundaries: ETSU Hosting Navajo Pioneer
February 21, 2024
JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, Feb. 21 -- East Tennessee State University issued the following news:

Overcoming extraordinary odds to become a surgeon, Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord is the first member of the Navajo tribe to be board-certified in surgery.

Her bestselling memoir, "The Scalpel and the Silver Bear," traces her journey from a Navajo reservation to the operating room.

Early next month, Alvord will share her incredible story in the Appalachian Hig . . .

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