Bush Foundation Fellowships

Mark P. Butterbrodt

1992 Medical Fellow
South Dakota

Area of Study: Medical Education and Research
Long-Term Goal: To improve clinical, teaching, and research skills in order to use a public health focus to ameliorate areas of need (asthma, substance abuse, and effective pediatric health care maintenance) in an underserved population

Butterbrodt is the senior physician and the Indian Health Service clinic on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in English literature, he studied medicine at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, receiving his medical degree from the University of Minnesota in 1977. He did his pediatric residency at the University of Iowa and became a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service in 1980. Butterbrodt used his fellowship to study asthma rates among the children of people living in the inner city and in areas of rural poverty, exploring ways to screen and effectively manage asthma in these populations. Butterbrodt adapted his screening and management techniques to the prevention of diabetes and has since focused on Native populations.

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  Giving Strength article about Mark Butterbrodt's work