Dr. Drassen Ham is a medical anthropologist with research interest in culturally-informed care. She has Master’s degrees in Anthropology and Public Health and received her PhD from the University of Kansas. Dr. Drassen Ham’s research and work examines how providers use cultural competency education in clinical and other health services. She is focusing on evaluating and rethinking standard educational approaches to clinical cultural competency and better positioning person-centeredness in health services education. She teaches cultural competency, epidemiology, and community development methods and speaks locally and nationally about challenges in cultural competency education. She is a Fellow in the Society for Applied Anthropology, a Tilford Diversity Commission Fellow, and a Wichita State University Online Faculty Fellow. Dr. Drassen Ham received the WSU Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009 and the Rodenberg Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2015.