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Past Presentation

The Vargus Nerve: Simple Tools to Help it Function in Our Favor | July 8, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

This hour long session with Dr. Darryl Tonemah, a PhD of Psychology Counseling and Cultural Studies of Kiowa, Comanche, Tuscarora heritage, focuses on self-care and the Vagus Nerve, as well as self-care for providers. He provides actionable tools to deal ...

Date added: 07/8/20

Past Presentation

Harm Reduction Peers: Centering Programs in Lived Experience | July 7, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction

Keywords: #peer recovery support #peer specialists

This presentation is the first of two discussions on peer-centered harm reduction practices. In this session, moderator Jude Leahy, provides a content discussion on harm reduction peers and has a panel discussion with several peers who are working in the ...

Date added: 07/7/20

Past Presentation

MIS-C | COVID-19 Clinical Updates | July 6, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #multisystem inflammatory syndrome

In this series of two presentations, Dr. Thomas Becker, provides an overview of some recent updates in COVID-19 research focusing on MIS-C. Then, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee National Health Services, and Whitney Essex, Family Nurse ...

Date added: 07/6/20

Past Presentation

Primary Care Considerations in Transgender Health | June 24, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trans & Gender Affirming Care

Keywords: #primary care in transgender health #transgender care

Dr. Maddie Deutsch, Medical Director of UCSF Transgender Care, shares important information regarding a wide spectrum of topics, including health disparities for transgender individuals, gender-affirming interventions, and primary prevention and screening for this population.

Date added: 06/24/20

Past Presentation

COVID-19 Testing Strategies – Results, Lessons Learned & Tips for Tribes | COVID-19 Clinical Updates | June 24, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates

Public health officials throughout Indian Country are working together to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Expanding access to reliable screening is critical to containment efforts. In this series of presentations, public health officials Sarah Wilborn, PA (serving Swinomish) and Luke McDaniel, ...

Date added: 06/24/20

Past Presentation

CDC, FDA Research & Resources | June 22, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #covid resource drop

In this presentation, Dr. Alexander Wu, an Epidemic Intelligence Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides a number of valuable COVID-19 related resources produced by the FDA and CDC. Dr. Wu also provides an overview of some ...

Date added: 06/22/20

Past Presentation

IHS COVID-19 Clinical Readiness and Patient Care | June 18, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #ambulatory care #covid clinical updates #phased reopening

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jeff McCollum, Director of the Division of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention at IHS, provides a situation report on the COVID-19 pandemic in Indian Country. Then, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at ...

Date added: 06/18/20

Past Presentation

Opportunities for Telemedicine Beyond the COVID-19 Emergency | Clinical Update | June 17, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #telehealth #telemedicine

In this series of presentations, Dr. James Stallcup, CMIO and Medical Director at the Wilma P. Mankiller Health Center at Cherokee Nation, discusses success and opportunities for continuing telemedicine beyond the COVID-19 emergency. Whitney Essex, Family Nurse Practitioner with Infectious Diseases for ...

Date added: 06/17/20

Past Presentation

COVID-19 Epi Updates | CDC, FDA Research & Resources | Returning to Work Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic | June 15, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #covid resource drop #return to work

In this series of presentations, Dr. Alexander Wu, an Epidemic Intelligence Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides a number of valuable COVID-19 related resources produced by the FDA and CDC. Dr. Wu also provides an overview ...

Date added: 06/15/20

Past Presentation

Questions about Metformin Recall | June 11, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #metformin #metformin recall

The FDA recently alerted patients and health care professionals to nitrosamine impurity findings in certain metformin extended-release products. As clinicians continue to receive questions about the recent FDA alert, Dr. Mary Carol Greenlee, practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology in Grand Junction, ...

Date added: 06/11/20

	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