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Past Presentation

Implementing Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) Program via Telemedicine in Rural Practice | October 19, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #MOUD #starting an MOUD program #telehealth #virtual care

Dr Paula Cook provides an overview of medication-assisted treatment approaches to opioid use disorder (MOUD) in outpatient settings with a focus on telehealth, including updates on telehealth policy that impact MOUD and clinical tips for adjusting to providing MOUD in ...

Date added: 10/20/21

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STD Trainings (IHS)

Type: Website

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #training

DEDP offers STD training sessions about STD diagnosis, screening, treatment and identifying those at risk regularly throughout the 12 IHS Areas. Find out dates, locations and times at this website.

Date added: 10/20/21

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Infectious Diseases Resources for Tribes (CDC)

Type: Website

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #zika

These resources compiled by the CDC provide information about some infectious diseases for which AI/AN populations have an increased health burden. A link to Zika virus resources for AI/AN communities is also included.

Date added: 10/20/21

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TIP 57: Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services (SAMHSA)

Type: Website

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction Infectious Disease Journey to Health

Keywords: #tic #trauma-informed care

This manual helps behavioral health professionals understand the impact of trauma on those who experience it. The manual discusses patient assessment and treatment planning strategies. These strategies support recovery and the development of a trauma-informed care workforce.

Date added: 10/20/21

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What is Trauma? (TICIRC)

Type: Website

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #tic #trauma-informed care

This website is intended to help providers and others understand trauma and the associated health risks, as well as the core principles of trauma-informed care.

Date added: 10/20/21

Policies & Procedures

Key Ingredients for Successful Trauma-Informed Care Implementation (SAMHSA)

Type: Policies & Procedures

Program: Infectious Disease Harm Reduction Journey to Health

Keywords: #tic #trauma-informed care

This brief draws on interviews with national experts on trauma-informed care to create a framework for organizational and clinical changes that can be practically implemented across the health care sector to address trauma. It also highlights payment, policy, and educational ...

Date added: 10/20/21

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Trauma-Informed Care Resources (IHS)

Type: Website

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease Harm Reduction Journey to Health

Keywords: #tic #trauma-informed care

Trauma-Informed Care Resources for providers serving AI/AN people.

Date added: 10/20/21

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PEP Guidelines for Providers (CDC)

Type: Website

Audience: Clinical

Program: HIV Infectious Disease

Keywords: #pep #post-exposure prophylaxis

This CDC resource contains guidelines and information on post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for providers.

Date added: 10/20/21

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Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (HIV.gov)

Type: Website

Audience: Clinical

Program: HIV Infectious Disease

Keywords: #pep #post-exposure prophylaxis

PEP, or post-exposure prophylaxis, is a short course of HIV medicines taken very soon after a possible exposure to HIV to prevent the virus from taking hold in your body. This site provides basic information, tools, and guidance on PEP ...

Date added: 10/20/21

Training

Ready, Set, PrEP

Type: Training

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: HIV PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) Infectious Disease

The Ready, Set, PrEP program provides free PrEP HIV-prevention medications to thousands of people living in the United States, including tribal lands and territories, who qualify.

Date added: 10/20/21

	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