Resource Library - Indian Country ECHO

These guidelines, published in 2019, offer clinical protocols for the administration of gender-affirming hormone therapy including both exogenous and supplemental dosing guides for estrogen and testosterone. It includes pros, cons, dosing recommendations, and lab recommendations for monitoring purposes.

Date added: 03/31/22

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CSF Transgender Care Guidelines

Type: Download

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trans & Gender Affirming Care

Keywords: #clinical guidelines #transgender care

These guidelines, published in spring 2019, offer clinical protocols for the care of gender-diverse youth including puberty blockers, gender-affirming hormones, behavioral healthcare, and social and legal transition. It includes labs to check, dosing recommendations, and other specific guidelines for care.

Date added: 03/31/22

Past Presentation

Ending the Epidemics – An Introduction | April 19, 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 series of presentations, Rick Haverkate, the IHS National HCV/HIV Program Director, provides a welcome and introduction to the Ending the Epidemics program. Then, Dr. Jorge Mera, Indian Country ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases at Cherokee ...

Date added: 03/29/22

Past Presentation

Gender Affirming Care in Indian Country through the Lens of a Case Example-Returning to the Sacred Circle | March 28 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Keywords: #behavioral health #culturally competent care #gender-affirming care

Tavi Hawn explains the many forms of gender-affirming care and how it can look from both behavioral health and medical care standpoint. Tavi also emphasizes how both forms of care must be presented with the patient's Indigeneity in mind.

Date added: 03/29/22

Past Presentation

Native American Behavioral Health | March 22, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Reclaiming Native Psychological Brilliance

Keywords: #behavioral health #Native behavioral health standards #native brilliance

This session focused on the impact of western world view on Native American Behavioral Health standards.

Date added: 03/29/22

Past Presentation

Nurturing Psychological Brilliance and Resilience in Native Young Adults | February 22, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Reclaiming Native Psychological Brilliance

Keywords: #native brilliance #Native youth #resilience #youth engagement

This presentation focuses on the brilliance inherent in Native youth and how to nurture it.

Date added: 03/29/22

Past Presentation

Behavioral Health ECHO | March 24, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #behavioral health #behavioral health aide #cultural #cultural considerations #culturally competent care #culture-based strategies #traditional indigenous knowledge #traditional intervention

In this presentation, Dr. Danica Love Brown, Behavioral Health Director at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, discusses the integration of Indigenous Trauma Care in behavioral health.

Date added: 03/24/22

Past Presentation

Merging Mentation and What Matters: Brain Health in Aging | March 24, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #aging #Brain Health #dementia #mentation

In this session, Emily Trittschuh, PhD, discusses brain health in aging and the 4Ms of aging; Mentation, Mobility, Medicines, and Matters (as in what matters). This is shared with an emphasis on prevention and that person-centric care should be our ...

Date added: 03/24/22

	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