5 - Environment, Ecology, Endocrinology: A Historic, Psychology, Social Journey Among the Native People

Dr. Sudah Yehuda Kovesh Shaheb is an Australian and has worked all his professional life with Indigenous Peoples of the world. He is an Endocrinologist and a Medical Anthropologist. He has been associated with UmonHon and HoCank Tribes in Nebraska for many years. He teaches Medical Anthropology in Havana, Cuba, and is involved in a new project in setting up clinics in Cambodia.

Dr. Sudah Yehuda Kovesh Shaheb graduated from Medical School in London, England and did his Internal Medicine Residency at Universities of Melbourne and Queensland in Australia. He did his postgraduate studies in Endocrinology at the Washington University School of Medicine and University of Miami School of Medicine. He has
taught at Universities of Miami in Miami, Florida and Texas at Galveston, Texas as well as University of West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. He did further postgraduate studies in Medical Anthropology at Brunel University of West London and has been a visiting professor of Anthropology at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Havana for many years. His professional association with the Native Peoples of the world commenced during his medical student days. He has been a consultant endocrinologist to the Omaha Tribe in Nebraska for many years, as well to tribes in other states. He has been involved in international health for many years, and has had projects in Jamaica, Cuba, Myanmar, and Cambodia, among others. He has visited many major native groups in the world, including the Sami / Lapp in Finland, San / Bushmen in Namibia, Orang Asli in Malaysia and Ainu in Japan. He is well travelled having been to more than 100 countries and territories. He lives in Paris, France.

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Education

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• Environment
• Ecology
• Endocrinology
• History
• Psychology
• Social
• Native
• Omaha Tribe
• Nebraska
• Creighton University
• Anthropology
• Shaheb