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Past Presentation

Safe Sleep | January 28, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #safe sleep #SIDS #sudden infant death syndrome

In this presentation, Anna Stiefvater, will discuss safe sleep practices to reduce the chance of SIDS, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, setting up a safe sleep environment and share valuable safe sleep resources.

Date added: 01/28/21

Past Presentation

How Do Estrogen and Anti-Androgens Work Together? | January 25, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trans & Gender Affirming Care

Keywords: #anti-androgens #estrogen #hormone therapy #hormones

In this brief presentation, Dr. Jerrica Kirkley, Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of Plume, an app to help trans folks get medical care, offers guidance on dosing, lab work, and other considerations for clinicians consulting with patients who may be ...

Date added: 01/25/21

Past Presentation

Household Transmission | CDC/FDA Updates | January 25, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #covid resource drop #household transmission

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

Date added: 01/25/21

Past Presentation

Clinical Update | Vaccine Task Force | January 21, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #covid-19 vaccines

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, gives a clinical update on COVID-19. Then Dr. Kailee Fretland, Pharmacist at the Bemidji Area Indian Health Service, and Dr Holly Van Lew, Pharmacist ...

Date added: 01/21/21

Past Presentation

Clinical Updates | January 20, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #binaxnow #covid clinical updates #visceral adiposity

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services shares the latest clinical updates on COVID-19, focusing on visceral adiposity elevating the risk of critical condition in COVID-19, and evaluation of Abbot BinaxNOW rapid ...

Date added: 01/20/21

Past Presentation

Pancreatogenic Diabetes | January 14, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #diabetes diagnosis #pancreatogenic diabetes

Dr. Mary Carol Greenlee, a practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology in Grand Junction, Colorado, presents about identifying and caring for a patient with pancreatogenic diabetes. Pancreatogenic diabetes is an often misdiagnosed type of diabetes mellitus with a complex endocrinopathy and ...

Date added: 01/14/21

Past Presentation

Clinical Updates | Public Health Policy and Practice Updates | January 13, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #public health updates

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services shares the latest clinical updates on COVID-19. Then, Brigg Reilley, MPH, provides an overview of recent COVID-19 research, as well as a number ...

Date added: 01/13/21

Past Presentation

Asymptomatic Transmission | January 11, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #asymptomatic transmission #public health updates

In this series of presentations, Dr. Thomas Becker provides a summary and article review of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from people without COVID-19 symptoms. Then, Brigg Reilley, MPH, provides an overview of recent COVID-19 research, updated COVID-19 numbers, and rates in Indian Country as ...

Date added: 01/11/21

Past Presentation

Public Health and Scientific Challenges | IHS Epidemiology Update | Monoclonal Antibodies | January 7, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #fauci #monoclonal antibodies #national update

In this series of presentations, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, discusses COVID-19 public health and scientific challenges. Then Dr. Michael Toedt, Medical Director for the Indian Health Service, gives a national update on COVID-19 ...

Date added: 01/7/21

Past Presentation

The Rise of Benzodiazepines – Dangers and Answers (Part 2) | January 7, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #benzodiazepines #tapering

Dr. Christopher Blazes, MD, OHSU Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Director, reviews methods for tapering patients off of benzodiazepines and provides answers to commonly asked questions.

Date added: 01/7/21

	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