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Past Presentation

Ending the Epidemics – Wrap Up | May 24, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #disease #elimination #epidemic #hcv #hiv #sti #SUD #syndemic

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, Indian Country ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases at Cherokee Nation, recaps the rationale, program design, leadership policies, and tools that may successfully be used by healthcare providers and tribal decision makers ...

Date added: 05/24/22

Past Presentation

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Tele-Sim | October 4, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: #emergency pediatrics

This presentation is a simulation for attendees to practice the first 10 minutes of management of an acutely ill pediatric patient presenting in an emergency department.

Date added: 05/24/22

Past Presentation

Ventilation Management for Emergency Department Providers | September 20, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: #Acute respiratory distress syndrome #ARDS #covid #covid-19 #ventilation

This presentation reviews the basics of mechanical ventilation, discusses ventilation management of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and COVID-19 ARDS.

Date added: 05/24/22

Past Presentation

Emergency Department Based Alcohol Use Disorder Intervention | August 16, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: #alcohol use disorder #intervention

This presentation seeks to understand the burden of disease caused by unhealthy alcohol use, identify treatment strategies for emergency department patients with alcohol use disorder, and describe how to engage with patients regardless of their treatment goals.

Date added: 05/24/22

Past Presentation

Fluid Responsiveness with Ultrasound | August 2, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: #fluid responsiveness #ultrasound

In this presentation, Dr. Ashley Sullivan defines fluid responsiveness, and speaks to its importance, and provides methods for evaluation.

Date added: 05/24/22

Past Presentation

Medication Selection for Agitated Patients | July 19, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: #agitated delirium

This presentation provides methods for chemical restraint in situations/patients with agitated delirium.

Date added: 05/24/22

Past Presentation

COVID-19 Clinical Update | May 18, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid #covid clinical updates #covid treatment

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, discusses the latest COVID-19 clinical updates, epidemiology, variants, treatments and vaccine updates.

Date added: 05/19/22

Past Presentation

Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country: SUD and Harm Reduction | May 17th 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #harm reduction #risk reduction #Screening #substance use disorder #SUD #SUD treatment

In this series of presentations we hear from Dr. Jessica Gregg, MD, PhD, as she provides a comprehensive overview of Substance Use Disorders, including Medications for Opioid Use Disorder, and shares strategies to reduce stigma. Next, Dr. Samantha Gustafson, PharmD, discusses ...

Date added: 05/17/22

Past Presentation

Finerenone: Evaluating and Understanding this Drug as Treatment | May 12, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #diabetes #finerenone #medications

In this didactic presentation, Emily Castle, PharmD, provides an evaluation of the 2022 ADA update in terms of prescribing finerenone to patients with diabetes. She also provides a literature review for why finerenone is now recommended for use, and ways ...

Date added: 05/17/22

Past Presentation

Mental Health Apps | April 19, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Virtual Care Implementation

In this presentation, Dr. Bud Vana provides an update on the latest digital app-based telehealth services, including describing features, advantages and disadvantages of mental health apps and issues that are emerging around their use, and frameworks for evaluating privacy and ...

Date added: 05/13/22

	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