Adana Omágua Kambeba is a leader of the Kambeba People (Omágua, “People of the Waters”), originally from the Amazon. She was the first Indigenous woman from the Amazon to graduate with a medical degree from UFMG and the first woman of her people to achieve this feat in Brazil. She is notable for being the first doctor in the country to officially register both her names (Indigenous and Portuguese) on her professional license and in the records of the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM).
Adana also broke new ground by forming a CFM commission for the integration of Indigenous Traditional Medicine and Scientific Medicine. She practices in the fields of Family and Community Medicine, women’s health, and humanized childbirth. She is also a Cannabis Prescriber and participates in discussions about ancestral medicine with the Psychedelic Parenthood Community and the Indigenous Ayahuasca Conference.
Currently, while in shamanic training, she seeks to promote a dialogue between traditional and Western medicine for Indigenous health, and she serves as an educator, speaker, and spiritual counselor.
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