Paul Charlton, MD, MA | Topher Jentoft, MD

Paul Charlton, MD, MA works as an emergency medicine physician at the Gallup Indian Medical Center where he currently serves as the emergency department director. He completed medical school at Dartmouth and his residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington/Harborview. Dr. Charlton also holds a master’s degree from Georgetown University in Conflict Resolution, which drives his motivation to improve health care systems to address issues of quality, equity, and social justice. In addition to his clinical contributions, his academic niche is conflict management and health care, for which he holds academic affiliations with several universities focused on this topic. He lives in Gallup, New Mexico, with his wife and two children, and is an active climber and trail runner.

Christoper “Topher” Jentoft, MD, currently serves the Diné as Clinical Director at Chinle Health Care Center. Previously, he served the White Mountain Apache Tribe at the Whiteriver Indian Hospital for 10 years. Starting as a full-spectrum family physician, he later moved to full-time work in the ER. Topher was founding clinician of the local Jail Clinic and HIV/AIDS Ryan White Clinic, Deputy Director of the Emergency Department, Medical Director of the local EMS agency, coordinator of unofficial, ad hoc“Middle Management Committee” of medical staff leadership, High-Risk Team Coordinator during Alpha and Delta COVID-19 surges, and Deputy Infection Control Officer under Incident Command during Omicron. His professional interests include blunting morbidity and mortality resulting from man-made inequities in health while working towards their ultimate resolution.