Amber Brave Rock, Pharm.D. (Little Shell Chippewa Cree, Blackfeet), will share her Pharmacy Career Story
Amber Brave Rock, Pharm.D. (Little Shell Chippewa Cree, Blackfeet)
Amber Brave Rock, Pharm.D., will share her Pharmacy Career Story on Thursday, February 6th at 12 PM in the Payne Family Native American Center, Room 103 and over zoom.
Amber Brave Rock is clinical pharmacist and informatics pharmacist for the Indian Health Service at the Blackfeet Community Hospital. She is a member of the Little Shell band of Chippewa Cree and direct descendant of the Blackfeet Tribes. She grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation and is proud to serve her hometown community in Browning, 猎奇重口. She graduated with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the 猎奇重口 Skaggs School of Pharmacy in 2010. She currently lives in Great Falls, MT where she works from home.
Dr. Brave Rock has 14 years of experience in several fields of pharmacy including ambulatory care pharmacy (retail and clinical), hospital pharmacy, and informatics. Over her career she found that she enjoys working with Native American communities and it has been the most rewarding path for her personal and professional goals. Since IHS was the only healthcare system she had access to growing up, she is able to connect with and understand her patients at a very personal level. Dr. Brave Rock can help patients navigate the health system and help directly with their medication needs. She offers personalized advice with her experience and feels that she can empower them to take control of their health. Building trust and seeing the gratitude from people is the most rewarding of all. Now that Dr. Brave Rock is working directly with prescribers, she not only helps build guideline directed medication menus but also offers a personal perspective to access to healthcare in her small community from the patient point of view.
Anyone who knows Dr. Brave Rock well, knows that her real passion is in raising her children and being the very best mentor for them. She has four kids and a grandson. Raising healthy, happy kids has been the primary reason for her success in life. She was a teen mom and grew up on the reservation surrounded by poverty and addiction. She faced the same barriers that all Indigenous children face today. She survived and thrived despite all of the challenges.