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Past Presentation

Substance Use Disorder | April 15, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Community Health Representative

Keywords: #harm reduction #mat #substance use disorders #SUD #syringe services

Dependence on opiates such as painkillers and heroin continue to cause overdose and trauma to families across Indian Country. There is no perfect solution, but approaches such as Harm Reduction and Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT) can greatly reduce overdose ...

Date added: 04/15/21

Past Presentation

Behavioral Health Aide (BHA) Curriculum Updates & Student Recruitment | April 13, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: CHAP ECHO Learning Collaborative

Keywords: #behavioral health aide #BHA

This presentation will cover the creation and building of the Behavioral Health Aide (BHA) Education Program that is being stood up at Northwest Indian College and Heritage University Fall 2021. Please join us as we go over the curriculum that ...

Date added: 04/13/21

Past Presentation

Hepatitis C Screening | HCV Elimination at Rosebud | April 13, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #hcv elimination #hepatitis c #hepatitis c screening #rosebud

In this series of presentations, Whitney Essex, FNP, provides an overview of Hepatitis C screening recommendations and successful screening strategies in Indian Health Service, Tribal and Urban Indian clinics. Then, Dr Hannah Wenger, shares the HCV elimination story from the Rosebud IHS ...

Date added: 04/13/21

Past Presentation

Gender-Affirming Primary Pediatric Care | April 12, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trans & Gender Affirming Care

Keywords: #defining gender-affirming care #gender-diverse youth #pediatrics #primary care in transgender health #youth

Dr. Vinny Chulani, Medical Director of Phoenix Children's Adolescent Medicine Program, covers the basics of primary care for gender-diverse youth, including recommendations for sexual and social health screenings, approaches to primary care, and important aspects of the clinician’s mindset and ...

Date added: 04/12/21

Past Presentation

Clinical Updates | April 12, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, shares valuable COVID-19 clinical, epi, variant, and vaccine updates.

Date added: 04/12/21

Past Presentation

Steroid Induced Hyperglycemia | April 8, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #glucocorticoid treatment #glucose control #hyperglycemia #steroids

Dr. Mary Carol Greenlee, practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology in Grand Junction, Colorado, discusses caring for patients undergoing glucocorticoid treatment, which can worsen glucose control in patient with a pre-existing diagnosis of diabetes, or cause steroid-induced diabetes in patients who ...

Date added: 04/8/21

Past Presentation

Hepatitis C | April 8, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Community Health Representative

Keywords: #hcv #hcv testing #hcv treatment #hepatitis c

Like HIV, hepatitis C often has no symptoms until it appears as late stage liver cancer. New testing and treatments are greatly reducing deaths from this disease that affects millions of Americans. Find out how new treatments are simple, highly ...

Date added: 04/8/21

Past Presentation

Post Overdose Care – Addressing Vicarious Trauma | April 6, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction

Keywords: #historical trauma #post overdose care #trauma #trauma-informed care #vicarious trauma

In this presentation, Dr. Danica Love Brown, Behavioral Health Manager at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, discusses best practices for providing support following an overdose reversal as well as vicarious trauma, historical trauma, and ways we can support ...

Date added: 04/6/21

Past Presentation

Team Based Care & Medications for Opioid Use Disorder | April 6, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #mat #opioids #OUD #team-based care

In this presentation, CAPT Cynthia Gunderson discusses the impact of implicit bias and how perceptions and beliefs can impact overall community wellness, explores the role of advanced practice pharmacists in supporting recovery and assuring access to treatment, and describes available ...

Date added: 04/6/21

Past Presentation

Hepatitis C Elimination – An Introduction | April 6, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #hcv elimination programs #lummi

In this series of presentations, Dr Jorge Mera and Dr Justin Iwasaki, provide an overview of the HCV Elimination ECHO curriculum, introduce elimination concepts and provide examples of HCV elimination programs.

Date added: 04/6/21

	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