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Melissa Blind, PhD (she/her/hers)

Senior Research Associate
University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth
Duluth, Minnesota, United States

Dr. Blind is Cree from George Gordon's First Nation in Saskatchewan. She holds a PhD in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona. She is a Senior Research Associate on the Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team at the University of Minnesota, Duluth campus and has over 10 years’ experience working with Indigenous communities in the field of Indigenous health and dementia research. Dr. Blind’s work has contributed to the development of culturally safe dementia health promotion materials and assessment tools in Canada. She is also the research coordinator for Indigenous Cultural Understandings of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias – Research and Engagement (ICARE) project and the Addressing Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Disparities: The American Indigenous Cognitive Assessment (AMICA) project.

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