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Meet the Team

Dornell Pete, MPH, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
She/Her/They
Dr. Pete is of the Water Flows Together Clan, born for the Waters’ Edge Clan. Her maternal and paternal grandfather’s clans are Many Goats People Clan and Clumped Tree People Clan. She is originally from Shiprock, NM. Many of her relatives, including her parents, still live in Shiprock.
She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Epidemiology Department at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. She has worked with American Indian and Alaska Native populations as an Epidemiologist for the Urban Indian Health Institute, the Albuquerque Area Southwest Tribal Epidemiology Center, and Navajo Nation Tribal Epidemiology Center.
Phase I
Dissertation Committee

Amanda Phipps (Chair)

University of Washington
Johanna Lampe
Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Nina Salama

Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Michael Wu
Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Phase II
Postdoc Mentors


Chris Li (Primary Mentor)
Meira Epplein


Nicolette Teufel-Shone
Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Duke University School of Medicine
Rachel Ceballos
Northern Arizona University
University of Utah
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