MatthewMNelsonDO, MPH, MA, FAAFP

Obstetrics, Health and Culture, Rural Health

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Canyonlands Healthcare
467 Vista Ave
Page, AZ 86040
Phone+1 928-645-8123
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Dr. Matthew Nelson is a board certified (ABFM) family medicine physician, clinical professor, and is fellowship trained in obstetrics, affiliated with Canyonlands Healthcare and Banner Page Hospital. He is a fellow of the AAFP. He received his medical and public health degrees from A.T. Still University and anthropology degrees from New Mexico and Utah Valley, and has been in practice since 2015.

Saint Joseph Hospital, IncFellowship, Obstetrics, 2018 - 2019
St Mary's Hospital and Medical CenterResidency, Family Medicine, 2015 - 2018
A.T. Still University, School of Osteopathic Medicine in ArizonaClass of 2015, DO, Sigma Sigma Phi Honor Society
A.T. Still UniversityMPH, Community Health, Delta Omega Honor Society, 2015
University of New MexicoMA, Medical Anthropology, 2009
Utah Valley UniversityBS, Anthropology, 2007

Justina Ford Award for Humanitarianism and Teaching SCL/SMFM, 2018
Outstanding Resident of the Year Award American Osteopathic Foundation and American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, 2017
Namey Burnett Award in Preventive Medicine American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, 2017
Elsie Eyer Commitment to Underserved People Award Nominee Arizona Public Health Association, 2016
Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society 2016
Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award Arnold P. Gold Foundation, 2015
National Health Service Corps Scholar NHSC, 2012
Excellence in Public Health Award US Public Health Service, 2013
Sigma Sigma Phi Medical Honor Society 2013
Signature Program in Child Health Research Grant University of New Mexico: Dept of Pediatrics, 2010
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PubMed

7 citations
“Seeing the Life”: Redefining Self-Worth and Family Roles Among Iraqi Refugee Families Resettled in the United States
Matthew Nelson, Julia Meredith Hess, Brian Isakson, Jessica R. Goodkind> ;Journal of International Migration and Integration. 2016 Aug 1
"My World is Upside Down": Transnational Iraqi Youth and Parent Perspectives on Resettlement in the United States.
Julia Meredith Hess, Brian Isakson, Matthew Nelson, Jessica R. Goodkind> ;Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. 2018 Jan 1
Health ownership in American indigenous communities.
Nelson M > ;Rural Remote Health . 2013

Journal Articles

Partnerships for health: leveraging and centralizing access to community health centers
Nelson, M., In-House, 2/7/2017
Navajo Identities: Constructing Coherence from the Fragments of Chronic Disease.
Nelson, Matthew, The Artifact. 48:1, 2010
A Necessary Shift: Paradigmatic Oscillation in Public Anthropology.
Nelson, Matthew, Popular Anthropology. 1:1, 2010

Books/Book Chapters

Front and Back Stage of Tourism Performance
Chapter: Tropicality, purified spaces, and the colonial gaze: exclusionary policies in cruise tourism and its impact on the Caribbean
Nelson, MatthewRoutledge2020

Family Medicine Resident Earns Recognition for Healthy EffortsDecember 6th, 2017
Health and Wellness Briefs: Dec. 5, 2017December 4th, 2017
ATSU-SOMA Alumnus Named Outstanding Resident of the Year by AOF, ACOFPNovember 4th, 2017
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Adjunct Faculty, Doctoral Committee (University of New Mexico College of Nursing) 2017 - Present
Treasurer, Banner Page Hospital Medical Executive Committee 2020 - 2023
Committee Member, Obstetrics in Family Medicine - St Mary's FM 2016 - 2018
Board Member, Program Review Committee - Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless 2007 - 2011

Co-founder and curriculum development, HealthPartners North Country Healthcare2014 - 2015

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ResearchGatehttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Nelson11?ev=hdr_xprf
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