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Past Presentation

Time to FAST Forward – Update in Trauma Ultrasound | October 11, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Keywords: #anesthesia #trauma #ultrasound

In this presentation, Dr Ashley Sullivan, Emergency Ultrasound Director at Gallup Indian Medical Center, provides an update on moving beyond the FAST Exam, discusses the role of regional anesthesia in trauma and shares best practices on contrast enhanced ultrasound use ...

Date added: 10/11/21

Past Presentation

COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters | Influenza | October 6, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #covid updates

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, and Whitney Essex, ECHO faculty member and Family Nurse Practitioner at Cherokee Nation Health Services provide the latest update on COVID-19 ...

Date added: 10/5/21

Past Presentation

Utilizing ODMap Data | July 26, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Overdose Mapping and Application (ODMAP)

Keywords: #ODMAP #Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program

Mark Tuttle, Epidemiologist for Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, provides guidance on how to utilize ODMap data effectively.

Date added: 10/5/21

Past Presentation

National Map Filters and Tools | June 28, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Overdose Mapping and Application (ODMAP)

Keywords: #ODMAP #Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program

Mark Tuttle and Vickie L. Bradley provide instruction on how to use the national map filter and tools as part of the ODMap system.

Date added: 10/5/21

Past Presentation

ODMAP Data Entry, Management and Setting Overdose Alerts | May 24, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Overdose Mapping and Application (ODMAP)

Keywords: #ODMAP #Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program

Mark Tuttle and Vickie L. Bradley provide instruction on data entry and management of the ODMap system.

Date added: 10/5/21

Past Presentation

History of ODMap / Requesting Access to ODMap | April 26, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Overdose Mapping and Application (ODMAP)

Keywords: #ODMAP #Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program

Mark Tuttle and Vickie L. Bradley provide a history of ODMap and demonstrate how to request access for ODMap.

Date added: 10/5/21

Past Presentation

Overview of ODMAP | March 22, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Overdose Mapping and Application (ODMAP)

Keywords: #ODMAP #Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program

Mark Tuttle, Epidemiologist for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, provides a brief overview of the ODMAP system.

Date added: 10/5/21

Past Presentation

Addressing Community Needs During the Time of COVID | September 23, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #community health #community impact

In this session, Behavioral Health ECHO faculty members and participants join in a discussion of what they have experienced in their respective roles as teachers, students, caregivers, and how their needs have or have not been addressed as the COVID-19 ...

Date added: 10/5/21

Past Presentation

Mitigating Risks: Pharmacist Role in Suicide Assessment | October 5, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

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

Keywords: #assess #assessment #mitigating risk #pharm #pharmacist role #risk #role #suicide #suicide assessment

In this presentation, LCDR Teresa Grund discusses suicide assessments as a risk mitigation strategy. She’ll focus on identifying three different suicide screening tools and the role of a pharmacist in suicide assessment and care coordination, and empowering pharmacists to engage ...

Date added: 10/4/21

Past Presentation

Gender Affirming Surgery: Coordination and Optimization for Primary Care | September 27, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trans & Gender Affirming Care

Keywords: #gender-affirming care #gender-affirming surgery #gender-diverse youth

This short presentation offers tips and strategies for primary care providers seeking to support patients who are considering gender-affirming surgery through identifying affirming providers, making the most of surgical consultations, and managing logistical and interpersonal concerns.

Date added: 09/28/21

	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