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Families with Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Members (CDC)

Type: Website

Audience: Community

Keywords: #covid-19 vaccines #vaccines & children

CDC guidance for families to protect their unvaccinated family members, including children who can not get vaccinated yet.

Date added: 12/1/21

Past Presentation

COVID-19 Clinical Updates | Omicron | December 1, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Virology

Keywords: #omicron #variant

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, focus on emerging data on the ...

Date added: 12/1/21

Past Presentation

Initiation of Trans Clinic at Gallup Indian Medical Center | November 22, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trans & Gender Affirming Care

Keywords: #gender-affirming care #transgender care

Dr. Jennie Wei, Internal Medicine Specialist in Gallup Indian Medical Center, shares guidance on starting a clinic dedicated to trans care. Dr. Wei discusses the benefits of having a trans-dedicated clinic and shares resources for collaborating with other groups and ...

Date added: 11/23/21

Past Presentation

Tribal Diabetes ECHO – Hypertriglyceridemia with a focus on reducing the risk of pancreatitis in patients with diabetes | November 18, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #hypertriglyceridemia #pancreatitis

Dr. Carol Greenlee, practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology in Grand Junction, Colorado, discusses hypertriglyceridemia with a focus on reducing the risk of pancreatitis in patients with diabetes. Topics covered include: • Review of Triglyceride metabolism and the development of hypertriglyceridemia ...

Date added: 11/19/21

Enduring CE

PRIME: Influenza Management in American Indian Populations: Engagement, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Type: Enduring CE

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #influenza

Timely recognition and appropriate antiviral initiation are important to mitigate complications from influenza, but unique barriers within Indian Health Service systems can impede patient access and outcomes. In this accredited video, influenza experts serving American Indian communities leverage real-world survey ...

Date added: 11/18/21

Past Presentation

Public Health and CDC/FDA Updates | November 17, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid #covid updates #public health updates

In this presentation, Dr. Eileen M. Dunne, PhD, ECHO faculty member and former Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides a public health practice update and a number of valuable COVID-19 related resources produced by the ...

Date added: 11/16/21

Past Presentation

Virtual Care Medical Home: Best Practices for Remote Clinical Teams | November 16, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virtual Care Implementation

Keywords: #best practices #care #home #medical #remote #telehealth #virtual

In this presentation, Dr. Jessica Whitfield defines virtual care/telehealth, describes benefits of telehealth generally and in I/T/U communities, names benefits and challenges associated with building and sustaining effective remote teams in medical care, and identifies approaches to mitigating challenges in ...

Date added: 11/16/21

Past Presentation

Ask Questions, Get Answers: COVID-19 Vaccine for Children | November 16, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Virology

Keywords: #children #covid #vaccine

Native people and communities have responded to COVID-19 with strength and resilience. We have cared for one another, had each other’s backs, and banded together to ensure our loved ones, including our Elders, are kept safe. With a COVID-19 vaccine ...

Date added: 11/15/21

Past Presentation

Skin and Soft Tissue Infections | November 18, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #covid #id #infection #infectious disease #skin #soft tissue

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, provides a clinical update on emerging COVID-19 topics. Then, Dr. James McAuley, Clinical Director at the Whiteriver Service Unit, IHS, discusses skin and soft ...

Date added: 11/15/21

Past Presentation

Trickster Spirits and the Opioid Response: Cultural Considerations in Addressing Substance Misuse | November 16, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #cultural #indigenous #stories #tails #trauma #trickster

In this presentation, Dr. Danica Love Brown, Behavioral Health Manager at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, discusses indigenous trauma, Trickster Spirits, and other cultural considerations in addressing substance use disorders.

Date added: 11/15/21

	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