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Meet our 2008 Committee Leaders!
Our Executive Leadership serves on a one year term with elections held at the end of the year. Leaders are nominated and confirmed by membership vote. The duties and responsibilities to the committee are performed in conjunction with their normal job assignments.
AIANCOAC Chair - CAPT Gina Pahona
CAPT Gina L. Pahona (Lumbee) is the Chair of AI/ANCOAC and the Mentoring and Career development Subcommittee. She is the current Reno District Environmental Health Officer (EHO) in Sparks, Nevada responsible for the provision of environmental health services to the 28 Tribes located in Nevada, Utah, and southeastern California. Originally from a small Community (Prospect) in NC, CAPT Pahona received her BS in Environmental Health from East Carolina University in 1987 with the help of the IHS 437 Scholarship Program. She began her PHS career as an environmental health COSTEP with the IHS in 1986 and was assigned to the Whiteriver Service Unit (AZ) as a Field EHO in November 1987. Later she accepted a Service Unit EHO position for the Hopi Tribe and Kaibab-Paiute Tribe. While stationed on the Hopi Reservation in AZ, CAPT Pahona received her Masters degree in Public Health Policy and Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995. In 1999, CAPT Pahona transferred to the Aberdeen Area as the Sioux City District EHO before returning to Phoenix Area, as the Reno District EHO in 2004. CAPT Pahona joined the AI/ANCOAC in 2006 in the hopes of assisting with mentoring activities. She now finds herself serving as the 2008 Chair and looks forward to working with the AI/ANCOAC membership at large. Please feel free to contact her at gina.pahona@ihs.gov or via phone at 775.784.5327 x237.
Vice Chair-elect, CAPT Rita Lookingglass
CAPT Rita A. Lookingglass, MSN, RN (Navajo) is the Chair-Elect and the Membership & Nomination Subcommittee Chair of the AI/ANCOAC. She is originally from Flagstaff, Arizona and is the Director of Public Health Nursing at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center. CAPT Lookingglass is a former IHS 437 Scholarship recipient with experiences in the COSTEP
program, Pediatric and Clinical Staff Nursing, Public Health Nursing, and Case Management. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Arizona State University in 1982 and her Master of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Phoenix in 2000. Please feel free to contact her at rita.lookingglass@ihs.gov or at 602.248.4196.
program, Pediatric and Clinical Staff Nursing, Public Health Nursing, and Case Management. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Arizona State University in 1982 and her Master of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Phoenix in 2000. Please feel free to contact her at rita.lookingglass@ihs.gov or at 602.248.4196.
Secretary:
LCDR Joseph L. Jones (Kaw and Otoe) is the Secretary and Recruitment and Retention Subcommittee Chair of the AI/ANCOAC. He is currently the Sr. Field Engineer for the Oklahoma City Area Indian Health Service Office of Environmental Health and Engineering Pawnee Field Station. He oversees the Sanitation Facilities Construction Program (SFC) for six tribes in North-Central Oklahoma and four Tribes in Northeastern Kansas. Joseph was born in Oklahoma and lived there until his family moved to Alaska in 1987. He spent his high school years in Eagle River Alaska, before moving back to Oklahoma to attend college at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK. He received a B.S in Civil Engineering and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from OSU. Joseph started working for IHS while still in
school, returning for multiple summers to work for the Alaska Area OEH&E. Upon completion of his course work in 2001 he took a job in Okmulgee, OK working for the OCAIHS-OEH&E, SFC program. He now makes his home in Pawnee with his wife and two sons. Please feel free to contact him at joseph.jones@ihs.gov or at 918-762-6588.
school, returning for multiple summers to work for the Alaska Area OEH&E. Upon completion of his course work in 2001 he took a job in Okmulgee, OK working for the OCAIHS-OEH&E, SFC program. He now makes his home in Pawnee with his wife and two sons. Please feel free to contact him at joseph.jones@ihs.gov or at 918-762-6588.
Treasurer:
CDR Dora R. Bradley (Navajo) is the Treasurer and Awards Subcommittee Chair of the AI/ANCOAC. She is the Director of the Office of Continuing Education at the Indian Health Service (IHS) Clinical Support Center in Phoenix, Arizona overseeing the professional continuing education support for nurses, physicians, dentists, and pharmacists at all levels of the agency, Tribal and Urban settings across the country. Originally from Chinle, AZ, Dora received her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Arizona State University in 1987 and a Masters of Public Health degree in Health Administration and Policy from the University of Arizona. She is an IHS 437 Scholarship recipient beginning her career with the COSTEP program, and later as a Pediatric and Clinical Staff Nurse serving various tribes and communities in IHS and USPHS. Please feel free to contact her at theodora.bradley@ihs.gov or at 602.364.7777.
