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DeAnna Fay Finifrock, RN, PHN, MSN, of Cloquet, Minn., a public health nurse at the Fond du Lac Reservation, located near Cloquet. She has been employed as a tribal nurse in the Fond du Lac Human Services Division's Public Health Nursing Department since 1989, providing a wide variety of nursing services for the Fond du Lac community members and the Fond du Lac Human Services Division. When the Fond du Lac Reservation was notified in June 2003 that their Comprehensive Cancer Control and Prevention grant had been funded through the Centers for Disease Control, Ms. Finifrock was assigned to the grant as the comprehensive cancer program manager. During the past three years she has guided the planning process of the Fond du Lac Reservation's Wiidookaage Comprehensive Cancer Plan and has initiated several community outreach programs to increase awareness regarding the burden of cancer among American Indians. Breast Cancer programming is especially important to DeAnna because she is a breast cancer survivor. | 