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Past Presentation

Culture-based Strategies for Substance Use Disorder: Decolonizing Addiction | August 13, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Cherokee Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #decolonization #decolonizing addiction #SUD

Dr. Melissa Lewis, Assistant Professor in Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri, reviews the origins of substance use, Cherokee values of wellbeing, Indigenous understanding of cause of substance use disorders, and culture-based strategies for substance use disorder. ...

Date added: 08/13/20

Past Presentation

Legal and Social Support for Transitioning Patients | August 12, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trans & Gender Affirming Care

Keywords: #legal supports #social supports

Cecelia "Cec" Hardacker, Director of Education at Howard Brown Health Center, provides information, recommendations and tools for healthcare providers to offer support to patients who wish to have gender-affirming surgery.

Date added: 08/12/20

Past Presentation

Clinical Update | August 12, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates

In this session, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, shares clinical updates on COVID-19.

Date added: 08/12/20

Past Presentation

Barriers to Hepatitis C Care Facing People Who Use Drugs | August 11, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv treatment #SUD

Lauren Canary, an infectious diseases epidemiologist, shares information on the barriers to care for hepatitis C facing people who use drugs, and provides some strategies providers can use to help overcome some of these barriers.

Date added: 08/11/20

Past Presentation

Neurological Manifestations of COVID-19 | Question & Answer Panel | August 10, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #antibody testing #covid clinical updates #qa #reinfection

In this series of presentations, Dr. Thomas Becker provides an overview of the neurological manifestations in COVID-19 patients. Then, ECHO faculty answer questions submitted during the telehealth session - from antibody testing to re-infection, faculty tackle all COVID-19 related questions.

Date added: 08/10/20

Past Presentation

Substance Use Disorders: Brains, Behavior & Diagnosis | August 6, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #benzodiazepine #kratom

Dr. Jonathan Robbins, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, shares information to help interpret a “negative” benzodiazepine urine drug screen, discusses how to the determine next steps for further confirmatory testing and how to recognize ...

Date added: 08/6/20

Past Presentation

Substance Use Disorders: Brains, Behavior and Diagnosis | August 6, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Cherokee Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #sud diagnostic criteria #words matter

Dr. Jessica Gregg, SUD ECHO Medical Director and Associate Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, reviews the diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders and examines the different ways in which substance use disorders can develop.

Date added: 08/6/20

Past Presentation

Considerations for COVID-19 Vaccine & Preparation for Influenza | Clinical Update | August 5, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #covid vaccines

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, shares clinical updates on COVID-19. Then, Dr. Thomas Weiser discusses considerations for preparing for a potential COVID-19 vaccine and updates on recent developments from ...

Date added: 08/5/20

Past Presentation

Supporting Peers and Staff in Harm Reduction Programs | August 4, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction

Keywords: #peer mentors #peer recovery support

This presentation is the second of two discussions on peer-centered harm reduction practices. Harm reduction peers integrate their personal lived experiences into the harm reduction and early recovery support services they provide to their community. Good supervision supports harm reduction ...

Date added: 08/4/20

Past Presentation

COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Outcomes | CDC and Clinical Updates | August 3, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #cardiovascular #covid clinical updates

In this series of presentations, Dr. Thomas Becker provides an overview of some recent updates in COVID-19 research focusing on cardiovascular outcomes. Then, Whitney Essex, Family Nurse Practitioner at Cherokee Nation Health Services, provides a CDC and clinical update along ...

Date added: 08/3/20

	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