About Snow Creek Medicine

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Dr. Allison Kelliher is an Alaska Native physician originally from Nome Alaska. She is Koyukon Athabascan.  In addition to her practice as a board certified Family and Integrative Medicine doctor, she incorporates Alaska Native traditional healing and other botanical and holistic modalities.  

She has a background in biomedical research and received her undergraduate BS in Indigenous Medicine from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (2001).  Dr. Kelliher is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine (2005) and the Alaska Family Medicine Residency (2009).  She has a breadth of experience having practiced full spectrum family medicine in addition to serving her community as the first and only Tribal Doctor, MD at Southcentral Foundation where she worked as a traditional healer.  

Dr. Kelliher has apprenticed with healers including: Alaska Native, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Ayurvedic, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Western herbalists.   She is the founder and former director of the American Indian Collaborative Research Network (AICoRN), a Practice-Based Research Network at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of American Indian Physicians. She currently serves as Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Indigenous Health and teaches at the University of Washington WWAMI medical school as adjunct faculty.

Stephen Long is the Operations Manager for Snow Creek Medicine.  He is originally from Anchorage Alaska and has a BA in Marketing from the University of Alaska Anchorage (2010).

Stephen has a background in business consulting and operations. He served as Network Operations Lead for a rural telecommunications company serving the remote island of Adak, located on the Aleutian Chain of Alaska and inhabited by fewer than 200 residents.  

He has a strong interest in medical equity, especially for underserved rural populations, along with healing modalities such as the use of plant based medicine and community support for mental and physical well-being.