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Past Presentation

Laws and Rules that May Affect Syringe Service Programs | October 6, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #law and policy #syringe access #syringe services

In this presentation, Jude Leahy, MPH, shares an overview of laws and rules that may affect syringe service programs, provides valuable harm reduction and syringe service planning resources, explains syringe access and syringe service program policy and law timeline, and ...

Date added: 10/6/20

Past Presentation

Domestic Animals and COVID-19 | CDC Updates | October 5, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #cats #covid clinical updates #covid resource drop #dogs #domestic animals #pet covid transmission #pets

In this series of presentations, Dr. Thomas Becker, Medical Epidemiologist and ECHO faculty member, provides a summary and article review of domestic animals and COVID-19. Then, Eileen M. Dunne, PhD, Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Centers for Disease Control ...

Date added: 10/5/20

Past Presentation

SUD Care at Maamwesying, North Shore Community Health Services | October 1, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #indigenous knowledge #Maamwesying #Naandwe Noojimowin #North Shore Community Health Services #SUD recovery

Cheryl Hankard, Naandwe Noojimowin Program Manager, provides an overview of the program and services offered at Maamwesying, North Shore Community Health Services, Inc. and the Naandwe Noojimowin Program. The Naandwe Noojimowin Program serves the First Nations people, focusing on storytelling ...

Date added: 10/1/20

Past Presentation

IHS Update | COVID-19 Clinical Presentation and Treatment Update | October 1, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #IHS updates

In this series of presentations, Dr. Michael Toedt, CMO for Indian Health Service, gives an update on national IHS activities. Then, Dr Paul Sax, Clinical Director of the Infectious Disease Clinic at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor of Medicine at ...

Date added: 10/1/20

Past Presentation

The Role of ACIP in Evaluating and Recommending Vaccines | Clinical Update | September 30, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #ACIP #covid clinical updates #vaccine evaluation #vaccine promotion

In this session, Dr. Tom Weiser, Medical Epidemiologist at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, reviews the role of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in evaluating and recommending vaccines. Then, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation ...

Date added: 09/30/20

Past Presentation

Public Health Policy and Practice Updates | SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence Among Healthcare Workers | September 28, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #public health updates #seroprevalence

In this series of presentations, Brigg Reilley, MPH, provides a number of valuable COVID-19 related resources produced by the FDA and CDC as well as an overview of recent updates in COVID-19 numbers, and rates in Indian Country. Then, Dr. Thomas Becker ...

Date added: 09/28/20

Past Presentation

Introduction to Peer Mentor Services | September 24, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Cherokee Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #patient communication #peer certification #peer recovery support #peer specialists

In the final presentation of the program, Debra Buffaloboy, Peer Consultant for the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, reviews the guiding principles of recovery, provides an overview of current peer specialist roles and certification categories, and explains the diverse duties of ...

Date added: 09/24/20

Past Presentation

Improving Vaccine Hesitancy | September 24, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Maternal and Child Health

Keywords: #childhood immunization #covid vaccines #covid-19 #vaccine hesitancy

In this series of presentations, Dr. Allison Empey, Pediatrician, reviews a common case study in vaccine hesitancy. Then, Dr. Thomas Weiser, Medical Epidemiologist at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, shares a brief overview of current vaccination rates in Indian ...

Date added: 09/24/20

Past Presentation

The Science Behind Leading COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates | Clinical Update | September 23, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #covid vaccines #vaccines

In this session, Dr. Harry Brown, Medical Epidemiologist for the United South and Eastern Tribes, reviews immunology and vaccine science, new (and old) vaccine technologies, and provides an overview of current leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates. Then, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of ...

Date added: 09/23/20

Past Presentation

Public Health Policy and Practice Updates | 1918 Flu Epidemic | September 21, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #historic epidemics #past epidemics #public health updates

In this series of presentations, Brigg Reilley, MPH, provides a number of valuable COVID-19 related resources produced by the FDA and CDC as well as an overview of recent updates in COVID-19 research and practice. Then, Dr. Thomas Becker provides a summary ...

Date added: 09/21/20

	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