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HIV Presentations

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Introduction to HIV PrEP | November 5, 2021 In this presentation, Michelle Iandiorio, MD, ECHO faculty member and clinical director for SCAETC and associate professor for UNMHSC, provides an introduction to PrEP, describes the various HIV prevention methods, differentiates HIV PEP from HIV ...

Date added: 05/12/22

Past Presentation

Fentanyl: What’s True, What’s Not and What Can We Do to Reduce Harm? | March 11, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Peer Recovery

Keywords: #fentanyl #harm reduction

In this presentation, Jenny Hartley, PhD, MD, discusses the fact and fiction of fentanyl use, and harm reduction strategies.

Date added: 05/12/22

Past Presentation

Journey to Health ECHO | May 12th, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #aian #Community healing #covid-19 #Culture as prevention #health #historical trauma #resilience #stress management #trauma

In this presentation, Laura McGladrey, MFNP, presents on Thriving Past the Pandemic - Surge Capacity: Mission Stress, & Keeping Our Batteries Charged.

Date added: 05/12/22

Past Presentation

Medications to Avoid in Patients with Dementia | May 12, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

In this presentation, Jennifer Reagan, PharmD BCACP, discusses common medications for varied disease states and highlights both high risk prescriptions as well as safer medication choices for persons living with dementia.

Date added: 05/12/22

Past Presentation

Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country: HCV | May 10th 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #cure #hcv #hcv treatment #hepatitis c #Screening

In this series of presentations we hear from Dr. Jorge Mera on HCV Elimination with a focus on treatments, screening, prevention, and provider resources. Next, CDR Dawn Benth, PHN; LCDR Casey Marlin, PharmD; and LT Kelsey Kroon, PharmD share on ...

Date added: 05/10/22

Past Presentation

NW Elders ECHO | May 10, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Elders, Knowledge Holders and Culture Keepers

Keywords: #community care #culturally competent care #culture-based strategies #elders #food sovereignty #gardening #gathering #indigenous knowledge #relationality #self care #spiritual care #traditional indigenous knowledge

The Northwest Elders and Knowledge Keepers ECHO session took place on May 10th, 2022. In this session, Jennifer Martin (Cherokee) presents on Gardening and Gathering – Practicing Relationality. The faculty panel members for this session of the Northwest Elders, Knowledge ...

Date added: 05/10/22

Past Presentation

Opioid Failure | May 17, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Advancing Pharmacist Roles in Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Teams

Keywords: #bup #failure #opioid #tapering

In this presentation, Dr. Jonathan Robbins, MD and Dr. Katharine Marshall, MD, describe universal precautions for prescribing opioids in primary care, discuss opioid failure in the context of use for chronic pain and provide strategies for patient-centered options for discontinuation of chronic ...

Date added: 05/9/22

Past Presentation

Trauma Systems for New Mexico | May 11, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: IHS Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #department of health #new mexico #nm #systems #trauma #trauma center

In this presentation, Ms. Liana Lujan, RN, identifies trauma centers in New Mexico, identifies where the appropriate trauma center is for your patient, and explains performance improvement and implementing change for your trauma practice setting.

Date added: 05/9/22

Past Presentation

Community Health Representative Special Skills Training | May 19, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Community Health Representative

Keywords: #coding #documentation #health behaviors

In this presentation, Pam Aguilar leads a CHR skills training focused on Health Behaviors, Coding, and Documentation.

Date added: 05/9/22

Past Presentation

Harm Reduction, SSPs, and Me | May 5, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #harm reduction #mat #OUD #ssp #SUD

In this presentation, Jessica Rienstra, RN, BSN, discusses the goals of Harm Reduction and how it is used throughout healthcare and in our daily lives. She also discusses the cost benefits and increased positive outcomes from utilizing sterile syringe programs, ...

Date added: 05/5/22

	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