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Sloat is an innovative professor who teaches courses as Gender & Science, Western & Nonwestern Medicine, and Medicine & Health: West and East. She also teaches a UM Medical School seminar: Understandings of Health and Disease in the Classical Medical Systems of India and Tibet. Sloat has long volunteered at the University of Michigan Health Center, where she currently serves on the Neuroscience Hospital Advisory Committee and the Neuroscience Patient and Family Partnership Council.
In addition to her research and teaching at Michigan, Sloat was founding director of the university’s Women in Science and Engineering Program (WISE), designed to increase the number of girls and women pursing degrees and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics while fostering their future success. WISE has become a model program nationwide.
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A lifelong interest in medicine, both western and eastern, has led Sloat to many opportunities for travel and study. She has made three treks in Tibet, including a circumambulation of Mt. Kailash in 2004. She participated in a medical expedition in Nepal, and has made several trips in India and Bhutan. Inspired by her trips to the Himalayas, Sloat studied Tibetan medicine at the Shang Shung Institute in Conway, Mass. Her travels also inspired her to study western emergency medicine, and in 1998 she obtained her paramedic license.
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