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Past Presentation

NW Elders ECHO | April 9, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Elders, Knowledge Holders and Culture Keepers

Keywords: #AI/AN #aian #elders #indigenous knowledge #indigenous ways #plants #resilience #traditional indigenous knowledge #traditions

The Northwest Elders and Knowledge Keepers ECHO session took place on April 9th, 2024. In this presentation, Jeff King, PhD, LCP discusses Native and Western Worldview Contrasts: A Must-Know in Behavioral Health. The faculty panel and staff members for this ...

Date added: 04/9/24

Past Presentation

Use of Text Messaging Technology in 638 Facilities to Implement Evidence-Based Interventions and Improve Care | May 29, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Grand Rounds

Keywords: #improve care #sms #technology #text #text message

This presentation and knowledge-sharing event includes an overview of how communicating with patients via text message can help health centers to improve clinical quality and health outcomes, including the ability to close care gaps and promote health education among patients. ...

Date added: 04/9/24

Past Presentation

HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in Indigenous Communities | April 18, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #hiv #pep #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep

In this series of presentations, Leslie Stewart, MD, Infectious Diseases physician at the IHS Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility, LT Jade-Ngoc Brookfield, PharmD, clinical pharmacist at Gallup Indian Medical Center and Rydell J. Curley, HIV Health Technician in the Public ...

Date added: 04/9/24

Past Presentation

CHR E-Learning Basic and Advanced | April 15, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Community Health Representative

Keywords: #chr #community health representative #e-learning

In this series of presentations, moderator Bill Adams, MSN, RN, CDCES, CCHW, NHDP-BC, Area CHR Consultant with the Albuquerque Area Indian Health Service (IHS), welcomes speaker LCDR Whitney Moseley, BSN, RN who is a LCDR for the United States Public ...

Date added: 04/9/24

Past Presentation

Dental Care: Tele-health and General Supervision | April 8, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Virtual Care Implementation

Keywords: #dental #dental education #dental therapist #oral #oral health #VCI #virtual #virtual care

In this presentation, Miranda Davis, DDS, MPH; Angela Johnson, LDT; and Marissa Gardner, LDT, discuss tele-health and general supervision in regards to dental care. They cover ideas about what “virtual care” can mean in dentistry, how dental care is provided ...

Date added: 04/9/24

Past Presentation

Correction Insulin & Sick Day Insulin | April 11, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #correction factor #correction insulin #diabetes #ICR #insulin #sick day insulin #t1d #t2d #type 1 #type 2

In this presentation, Dr. Carol Greenlee, endocrinologist, discusses correction insulin & sick day insulin therapy for Type 1 and 2 Diabetes. Dr. Greenlee does an over view on correction insulin and sick day insulin uses. She also goes over the calculation ...

Date added: 04/9/24

Past Presentation

Buprenorphine Long-Acting Injectables | April 16, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #brixadi #bup #buprenorphine #disorder #injectable #LAI #long-acting #opioid #OUD #sublocade

In this presentation, LCDR Draude, PharmD, describes the available buprenorphine Long-Acting Injectable (LAI) agents. LCDR Draude compares and contrasts the LAIs, including dosing and clinical considerations, and discusses the use of LAIs as an approach towards treating opioid use disorder.

Date added: 04/8/24

Past Presentation

Pediatric Sedation & Analgesia, Outside of the OR | April 10, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Program: IHS Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #analgesia #emergency #er #pediatric #peds #sedation #trauma

In this presentation, Dr. David Listman, MD, provides a comprehensive overview of pediatric sedation and analgesia outside of the Operating Room. Dr. Listman will define "successful" or "effective" procedural sedation for children, provide examples of effective and ineffective procedural sedation, ...

Date added: 04/8/24

Past Presentation

How to Implement Gender-Affirming Policies and Procedures with School Districts

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Trans & Gender Affirming Care

Date added: 04/8/24

Past Presentation

Cultural Responsiveness: An Introduction for Peer Professionals | April 4, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #addiction #cultural responsiveness #Peer #substance #SUD

In this presentation, Debra BuffaloBoy (Standing Rock Lakota Nation), CACD II, PWS, PSS, CRM, provides an overview of historical perspectives of culture responsiveness, explores boundaries of cultural responsiveness, addresses ways to embody cultural responsiveness in our work, and steps to ...

Date added: 04/4/24

	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