CDR Kailee Fretland

CDR Kailee Fretland, PharmD, BCPS, is a direct descendent of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe and is a Public Health Service officer with the Indian Health Service on the Red Lake Nation in northern Minnesota.  She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2006 from the University of Minnesota and completed her Pharmacy Practice Residency at St. Alexius Medical Center in Bismarck, ND.  She started with IHS on the Standing Rock Reservation in Fort Yates, ND, where she developed and managed an anticoagulation clinic. She is currently a Board Certified Clinical Pharmacist and the Pharmacy Director at the Red Lake Hospital where she developed and led pharmacy primary care clinic and medication for opioid use disorder programs.  She is currently the Medication Lead for the Indian Health Service Heroin, Opioid and Pain Efforts (HOPE) Committee and has been serving as the Deputy Lead for the IHS COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force.  CDR Fretland lives with her husband, 3 daughters and enjoys golfing, spending time on Minnesota Lakes in the summer and planning birthday parties!