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Beverly Hugo

Beverly Hugo

Beverly Hugo is Iñupiaq and was born in 1953 to Mary and Charlie Edwardsen, Sr. at fish camp on the Chipp River near Barrow, Alaska (now known as Utqiaġvik). She attended high school at Mount Edgecumbe School in Sitka, Alaska and is where she met her husband, Pat Hugo who was from the village of Anaktuvuk Pass. They got married in 1973 and moved to Anaktuvuk Pass. In 1976, she was hired as the village's alternate health aide, went on to become a Physician's Assistant, and worked in Barrow for the North Slope Borough Health Department, School District, and the US Public Health Service at the Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital. She has also worked in Barrow as director of the North Slope Borough's Iñupiat Heritage Center and as an Iñupiaq language and culture teacher for the North Slope Borough School District.
Beverly Hugo appears in the following new Jukebox projects:
Interview Title Abstract Archive #: Oral History Project Date of Interview
Beverly Hugo, Part 1

Beverly Hugo was interviewed on March 15, 2005 by Karen Brewster at the Bertha Moses Patient Hostel in Fairbanks, Alaska when she was visiting from her home in Barrow, Alaska. In this first part of a three part interview, Beverly talks about becoming a health aide, her training and education, and communication with doctors. She also talks about handling rescues, terminal patients, and suicides, getting through the difficult times, and coping with death.

 2004-17-05_PT.1 Community Health Aide Program Mar 15, 2005
Beverly Hugo, Part 2

This is the continuation of an interview with Beverly Hugo on March 15, 2005 by Karen Brewster at the Bertha Moses Patient Hostel in Fairbanks, Alaska when Beverly was visiting from her home in Barrow, Alaska. In this second part of a three part interview, Beverly talks about providing health care for Alaska Native people, becoming a physician's assistant, health aide training, and challenges of rural health care and being a community health aide.

 2004-17-05_PT.2 Community Health Aide Program Mar 15, 2005
Beverly Hugo, Part 3

This is the continuation of an interview with Beverly Hugo on March 15, 2005 by Karen Brewster at the Bertha Moses Patient Hostel in Fairbanks, Alaska when Beverly was visiting from her home in Barrow, Alaska. In this third part of a three part interview, Beverly talks about working as a physician's assistant, cross-cultural issues in health care, and use of traditional medicine. She also talks about the qualities that make a good health aide, her mentors, and provides advice for future health aides.

 2004-17-05_PT.3 Community Health Aide Program Mar 15, 2005