Dr. Cynthia Greywolf

<p><i>Season two of “Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up,” continues with an intimate exploration of historical trauma with our host, Indrias Kassaye, and MFP alumna Dr. Cynthia Greywolf, a psychiatric nurse scientist beginning her second year as a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Texas at Austin.</i></p><p><i>Dr. Greywolf’s scholarly pursuits are influenced by her personal experiences growing up on a Cherokee reservation in Oklahoma, and a deep-rooted desire to understand why substance use and behavioral health disorders are prevalent within Indigenous communities, and how best to address them.</i></p><p><i>Dr. Greywolf opens up about her childhood and journey to becoming a Ph.D. prepared nurse scientist and educator, one of less than 30 in the entire United States. Her story provides a rare glimpse into the unique challenges faced by Indigenous scholars - from their formative years and throughout their academic and career trajectories.</i></p><p><i>Accelerating the training of Indigenous psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners will be critical to addressing the unmet substance use disorder and mental health needs of Indigenous communities.</i></p><p><i>Dr. Greywolf’s successful experiences providing culturally appropriate behavioral health interventions to Indigenous communities highlights the urgent need to diversify the behavioral health workforce and scale-up the availability of the kind of appropriate care that she and her fellow Native American researchers have been developing and implementing.</i></p><p><i>To learn more about Dr. Cynthia Greywolf’s work, visit </i><a href="https://emfp.org/mfp-fellows/doctoral/cynthia-greywolf" target="_blank"><i>https://emfp.org/mfp-fellows/doctoral/cynthia-greywolf</i></a><i></i></p>