Ending the Syndemic Clinical Training - Alaska

Staff serving Alaska Native & American Indian people are invited to participate in the Ending the Syndemic ECHO program. The program provides comprehensive information to effectively address the evolving HCV, SUD, HIV, and Syphilis syndemic. The program offers a free 2-day training & subsequent telehealth clinics.

Dates: September 10th (8am-4pm PT) and September 11th (8am-3:45pm PT)

Where: Anchorage, Alaska (Hotel Captain Cook, Aft Deck Room, 939 W 5th Ave, Anchorage, AK 99501; Please note hotel block closes August 7) & Virtually via Zoom

Register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EndingTheSyndemic_Alaska2024

View the agenda here.

Following the training you can find recordings, materials and information about how to claim CE below!

Submit a Case

Presentations

Resources

Claim CE

Presentations

_{Back to top ▲}

Ending the Syndemic at Your Tribe or Facility

Introduction to Peer Specialists

Indigenous Trauma and SUD Care: Trickster Spirits

Providing Substance Use Disorder Services in Primary Care

Providing Harm Reduction Services Throughout Alaska

Syphilis Response: Best Practices

Providing PrEP and PEP Services at your Clinic

HCV Screening, Management and Treatment Guidelines

National Clinician Consultation Center

^{Starting an Effective Model to End the Syndemic at Ninilchik}

Integrated Treatment: The didgʷálič Model for Addressing the Opioid Crisis in
Indian Country

Resources

_{Back to top ▲}

The Indigenous HIV/AIDS Syndemic Strategy

To support the development of comprehensive solutions to end the HIV epidemic in Indian Country, the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, alongside the Indian Health Service National HIV Program, and other partners, created The Indigenous HIV/AIDS Syndemic Strategy: Weaving Together the National HIV, STI, and Viral Hepatitis Plans.

Hepatitis C ECHO

We invite you to join the Indian Country Hepatitis C ECHO program held the 1^st, 3^rd and 4^th Wednesday of every month at 11am PT. The program is designed to enhance clinicians’ ability to screen, treat and manage patients with hepatitis C through didactic and case presentations, recommendations from peers and a multidisciplinary team of specialists.

HIV ECHO

Each month, ECHO offers an ECHO session with specialists from University of New Mexico focusing on the management and treatment of patients with HIV. The 1 hour long clinics include an opportunity to present cases, receive recommendations from a specialist, engage in a didactic session and become part of a learning community. Together, we will manage patient cases so that every patient gets the care they need.

Peer Recovery ECHO

Each month, the Peer ECHO Program offers an ECHO session with an interprofessional team of behavioral health and peer recovery specialists focusing on supporting patients with substance use disorders. This 1.5 hour long clinic includes an opportunity to present cases, receive recommendations from specialists, engage in a didactic session and become part of a learning community.

Substance Use Disorder ECHO

We invite you to join the Indian Country Substance Use Disorder (SUD) ECHO program held the 1^st Thursday of every month at 12pm PT. The program provides comprehensive information for staff serving American Indian and Alaska Native people to effectively integrate SUD services, an opportunity to present cases, receive recommendations from specialists, engage in a didactic session and become part of a learning community.

Pharmacy Led SUD ECHO

We invite you to join the Advancing Pharmacist Roles in Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Teams ECHO program held the 3^rd Tuesday of every month at 10am PT. The program is designed to equip pharmacists, pharmacy staff, and other healthcare professionals with the necessary tools to effectively assume a critical role in SUD prevention, education, and assistance. Up-to-date clinical guidance, training, and support is offered.

Infectious Disease ECHO

We invite you to join the Infectious Disease ECHO program held the 3^rd Thursday of every month at 11am PT. The 1-hour Infectious Disease ECHO virtual clinics provide an opportunity to be updated on the latest emerging COVID-19 and Monkeypox topics, engage in challenging case discussions, participate in a didactic session and join a learning community to effectively screen, treat, and manage patients with infectious diseases.

CE

_{Back to top ▲}

Claim CE

Following the training a link will be provided here to claim CE.

	Jason Arion Butler is an enrolled member of the Ute Tribe of Fort Duchesne, Utah and is also part Mojave and Cherokee. He resides in Gibson, Idaho with his wife of 22 years, children, and grandchild who are all enrolled members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. He graduated from Idaho State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and earned his Master of Science in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University. He has spent the past 5+ years employed by the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Tribal Health and Human Services Department, where he spent time serving as the Recovery Service Coordinator for the Four Directions Treatment Center, the manager for the Community Health Representative program, and recently accepted the position of Behavioral Health Manager. He strives to incorporate Native culture, traditions, morals, and values into the healthcare services provided to Native communities, implementing these practices into his work with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and advocating for the reconstruction of healthcare practices nationally. Today he says, “I am loving life and am extremely thankful to have found a career path I love.

	Carrie Sampson-Samuels is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation located in Eastern Oregon. Carrie has an early background in nursing providing patient care in long term and clinical care settings. Carrie then furthered her education in community health and health studies at Portland State University, later advancing her education in healthcare management at Oregon Health and Sciences University while serving in leadership and executive management for a Tribal health organization as the Community Health Director. Carrie has served Tribes from Oregon to Montana and the Treaty 7 Blackfoot Confederacy in Southern Alberta. As the Community Health Aide Project Director for the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, Carrie has provided leadership, advocacy and project management for expansion for the Behavioral Health Aide and Community Health Aide Program under the umbrella and direction of the Tribal Community Health Provider Project. This work has led to the expansion of Tribal Community Health Providers in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Carrie is responsible for leading partnerships with the education institutions, key Tribal partner sites, contract experts and advisory workgroups. This includes development of education infrastructure, education curriculum, recruitment strategies, tools for integration of providers into tribal health organizations, and working with state partners to develop policy and infrastructure for provider reimbursement. Carrie manages and writes multiple grants that support all aspects of this work and provides technical assistance support to the Portland Area CHAP Certification Board. Carrie is the proud mother of 4 daughters and resides on a small ranch on her Tribal homelands.

	Dr. Liu is a generalist OB/GYN at Gallup Indian Medical Center. In addition to her medical degree, she holds a PhD in Health Policy. Among other publications, she served as the chief editor for the 2019 Oxford University Press book: “50 Studies Every Obstetrician and Gynecologist Should Know.” She has formal training in Quality Improvement processes through the Partners Clinical Process Improvement Leadership Program (CPIP), which she utilized to implement emergency contraception at Massachusetts General Hospital. During her six years at Gallup Indian Medical Center she has primary responsibility for preparing and reporting of metrics related to the delivery of obstetric care, and serves on the Continuing Medical Education committee.

	Dr. Hoover is from Chicago, where he grew up and went to medical school, at Rush University, on Chicago’s diverse West Side. He was trained in Urology at Boston Medical Center in Boston’s beautiful South End neighborhood. Dr. Hoover went on to pursue fellowship training in voiding dysfunction and laser prostate surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Hoover is a Board-Certified Urologist, by the American Board of Urology, having achieved this honor in 2018. Dr. Hoover has several peer-reviewed publications, including research studies and medical illustrations. His family is happy to call Gallup home since the end of 2017. In their free time they like to explore New Mexico’s wilderness and go camping. Now that their two girls are growing up, it’s also imperative that we catch Pokemon wherever we go.Dr. Hoover is the only Urologist in McKinley County, New Mexico, and in any of the surrounding counties– it’s just him between Albuquerque and Flagstaff. He’s happy to continue seeing established patients, and is accepting new patients from the entire region. Dr. Hoover believes in communication, candor, and compassion as essential tenets of patient care. Dr. Hoover is an expert in general Urology, male and female voiding dysfunction, kidney stones and kidney stone surgery, BPH and laser prostate surgery, erectile dysfunction, vasectomy, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, testicular cancer. Many of the procedures he do as a Urologist are done in the office including: cystoscopy, vasectomy, urodynamics, treatment foroveractive bladder, and many others. Please call/text or email and let him and his staff know how they can help you.

	Eric Wortmann, MD is the former Director of Emergency Medicine at Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility. Besides patient care, Eric has a deep passion for mentoring aspiring physicians and health care providers. He was the Education Director of Emergency Medicine at Chinle as well as Adjunct Faculty for the US Army teaching Special Forces Medics. He has been a visiting professor of Emergency Medicine in Haiti and has worked in the Dominican Republic since 1989. Eric has a long-time passion as a mid and long-distance running coach. He has lived on Kauai for 30 years. Currently he divides his time between Northern Italy and Hawaii. Recently he was accepted into Doctors without Borders USA and is awaiting his first assignment.

	Corey Detlefs, MD, FACS, is the Trauma Outreach Director and an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix

Submit a Case

Presentations

Resources

Claim CE

Presentations

Ending the Syndemic at Your Tribe or Facility

Introduction to Peer Specialists

Indigenous Trauma and SUD Care: Trickster Spirits

Providing Substance Use Disorder Services in Primary Care

Providing Harm Reduction Services Throughout Alaska

Syphilis Response: Best Practices

Providing PrEP and PEP Services at your Clinic

HCV Screening, Management and Treatment Guidelines

National Clinician Consultation Center

Starting an Effective Model to End the Syndemic at Ninilchik

Integrated Treatment: The didgʷálič Model for Addressing the Opioid Crisis inIndian Country

Resources

The Indigenous HIV/AIDS Syndemic Strategy

Hepatitis C ECHO

HIV ECHO

Peer Recovery ECHO

Substance Use Disorder ECHO

Pharmacy Led SUD ECHO

Infectious Disease ECHO

CE

Claim CE

^{Starting an Effective Model to End the Syndemic at Ninilchik}

Integrated Treatment: The didgʷálič Model for Addressing the Opioid Crisis in
Indian Country