Chief Clinical Consultant for
Family Medicine
Ann Bullock, MD
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
P.O. Box 666 John Crowe Hill
Cherokee, NC 28719
828-497-7455
Ann Bullock, MD is a board-certified Family Physician who has worked with the Indian Health Service and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians since 1990. From 2000-2009, she was the Medical Director for the tribe's Health and Medical Division and now serves as its Medical Consultant. She is also the Clinical Consultant for the IHS Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention. Her main interests are related to diabetes prevention and treatment, including the role of prenatal and early life risk factors in the development of chronic disease. She has been an author on a number of IHS Diabetes Best Practices, Standards of Care, and Clinical Guidelines. Dr. Bullock is interested in the development of interdisciplinary programs, including complementary approaches and integrating services which address stress, trauma and depression. She is the course director for Indian Health’s annual primary care conference, “Advances in Indian Health”, which occurs each spring in Albuquerque. All Indian Health System clinicians are invited to attend—check the IHS calendar or the University of New Mexico Office of CME website for information on the current year’s conference. Dr. Bullock is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and a member of the Association of American Indian Physicians. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Primary Care Listserv Discussion moderated by Dr. Bullock on the causes of diabetes
Links of Interest
- Advances in Indian Health (Annual Indian Health Primary Care Update)
- Adverse Childhood Experiences Study website
- American Academy of Family
Physicians
- American
Diabetes Association
- CDC webpage on the Adverse Childhood
Experiences Study
- International Society for Traumatic Stress
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- Low Back Pain: Diagnosis and Treatment, Joint Clinical Guideline
- More about Ann Bullock, M.D.
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- Preventive Services Selector
Tool, AHRQ
(Web-based and/or PDA)
- Primary Care Discussion Forum, Indian Health
- The Trauma Center
Dr. Bullock serves as an advisor to the IHS Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention and has been involved with the development of several Diabetes Best Practice, Standards of Care, and Clinical Guidelines documents. Dr. Bullock gives frequent presentations both in and out of Indian Country on the connection of stress and trauma to chronic disease. She is interested in the development of interdisciplinary programs for diabetes prevention and treatment, including complementary approaches and integrating services which address stress, trauma and depression.
Dr. Bullock is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and a member of the Association of American Indian Physicians. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and served from 2005-2006 on an Institute of Medicine Committee on progress in prevention of childhood obesity.
