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Past Presentation

Syphilis Screening, Treatment and Management | March 27, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, MD, FACP, Indian Country ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services (CNHS), shares how you and your staff can continue to recognize, stage, and treat syphilis.

Date added: 03/20/24

Past Presentation

Vascular Lesions | April 16, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Dermatology

Keywords: #derm #dermatology #lesions #Vascular

The Indian Country Dermatology ECHO provides comprehensive information to support Indian Health Service, Tribal, and Urban Indian clinicians to improve dermatologic care and access for American Indian and Alaska Native people. In this session, Dr. Devon McMahon, MD, dermatology resident ...

Date added: 03/18/24

Past Presentation

Infectious Disease Update | Zoonotic Infections in Indian Country | March 21, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #covid #hiv #respiratory #sti #syphilis #testing #treatment

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, including COVID prevention, treatment updates, as well as HIV antiretroviral guidelines, International AIDS Society ART, penicillin ...

Date added: 03/18/24

Past Presentation

CHW/CHR Competency Overview, How to track it and a tool to communicate | March 18, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Community Health Representative

Keywords: #chr #community health representative #competencies

In this series of presentations, moderator Michelle Archuleta, MS, MA, National CHR Consultant with the Indian Health Service (IHS), welcomes speakers Dr. Samantha Sabo, DrPH, MPH, Professor at Northern Arizona University, and Louisa O’Meara, MPH, Sr Research Coordinator at Northern ...

Date added: 03/18/24

Past Presentation

Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections | March 20, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #group a strep #iGAS #streptococcus

In this presentation, Dr. James McAuley, Chief Medical Officer at the Whiteriver Service Unit, IHS, and Professor of Medicine with the University of Arizona, Tucson, provides the latest update on invasive group a streptococcal (iGAS) infections, including background of streptococci, ...

Date added: 03/18/24

Video

Sharing Our Stories – Living a Beautiful Life in Recovery

Type: Video

Audience: Community

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

Keywords: #Community healing #Recovery #Red Lake #substance use disorder #SUD

Recovery is possible. Hear inspiring recovery stories from Red Lake community members, and share them with your patients. Long version (10:59) is embedded below, along with a link to a shorter version (3:45). See also this video intended for providers.

Date added: 03/18/24

Video

Community Healing – Best Practices

Type: Video

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #community #Community healing #Red Lake #substance use disorders #SUD

The Red Lake Nation’s approach to serving and supporting community members who experience substance use disorder is restoring hope and healing the community. By focusing on a community-based, person-first approach, they save lives and restore families. The Bridging Program increased ...

Date added: 03/18/24

Past Presentation

Benign Skin Lesions | March 19, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Dermatology

Keywords: #benign #derm #dermatology #lesions #skin

Date added: 03/15/24

Past Presentation

The Month in Virology Clinical Update | March 20, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #cdc #covid #covid clinical updates #covid treatment #hcv #measles #rsv

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases at Cherokee Nation, provides a clinical update on respiratory viruses, measles, HCV and the latest CDC respiratory guidelines.

Date added: 03/15/24

Past Presentation

A National Initiative to Eliminate HCV in the United States | March 20, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #daa #direct acting antiviral #eliminate #elimination #hcv #hep #hepatitis #hepc #national

In this presentation Dr. Karla Thornton provides an update on the national initiative to eliminate HCV in the United States, including a background on the epidemiology of the the public health crisis, current barriers to getting hepatitis C treatment, examples ...

Date added: 03/14/24

	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