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Past Presentation

Convalescent Plasma to Prevent or Treat COVID-19 | December 2, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #convalescent plasma #covid treatment

In this presentation, Dr. Evan Bloch, Associate Professor of Pathology and Associate Director in the Transfusion Medicine Division at Johns Hopkins, shares how prior experience motivated use of convalescent plasma, discusses what we've learned about convalescent plasma and why might the ...

Date added: 12/2/20

Past Presentation

Hospitalized Healthcare Workers and Adverse Outcomes | CDC/FDA Updates | November 30, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #health of healthcare workers #healthcare workers

In this series of presentations, Dr. Thomas Becker, Medical Epidemiologist and ECHO faculty member, provides a summary and article review of hospitalized healthcare workers and adverse outcomes from COVID-19. Then, Temet McMichael, PhD, Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for Public Health ...

Date added: 11/30/20

Past Presentation

Consent Practices in Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy | November 23, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trans & Gender Affirming Care

Keywords: #consent #consent practices #hormone therapy #hormones

Gaines Blasdel, a community organizer and gender affirming care researcher presents two models for approaching consent in hormone therapy. He describes healthcare the roles that can assess a patient’s ability to give consent for gender affirming care.

Date added: 11/23/20

Past Presentation

Clinical Update | Vaccine Task Force | November 19, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical update #vaccine task force #vaccine training

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: 11/19/20

Past Presentation

Tobacco, Women, Pregnancy & Baby | November 19, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Maternal and Child Health

Keywords: #e-cigarettes #smoking #smoking and pregnancy #tobacco #tobacco cessation #vaping

In this presentation, Kerri Lopez (Tolowa), will discuss the importance of understanding how smoking cessation is beneficial in the prenatal and postpartum periods of pregnancy for birthing persons and families.

Date added: 11/19/20

Past Presentation

Clinical Updates | Public Health Practice and Epi Updates | November 18, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #covid resource drop #public health updates

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, and Whitney Essex, Family Nurse Practitioner at Cherokee Nation Health Services, share clinical updates on COVID-19 and monoclonal antibody treatment. Then, Brigg Reilley, ...

Date added: 11/18/20

Past Presentation

CDC/FDA Updates | Emerging Topics | November 16, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

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

In this series of presentations, Eileen M. Dunne, PhD, Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the Idaho Division of Public Health and ECHO faculty member, provides a number of valuable COVID-19 related resources produced by ...

Date added: 11/16/20

Past Presentation

The Challenges of and Opportunities for HCV Screening and Treatment of Alaska Native persons Living in Remote Communities | November 10, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv screening #remote communities #rural communities #telemedicine

Brian McMahon, MD, Hepatologist at Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, shares information on the epidemiology of HCV in Alaska, explains who should be screened to detect chronic HCV infection based on recommendations from the CDC & USHSTF, discusses the barriers ...

Date added: 11/10/20

Past Presentation

Relationship-Based Primary Care: The Perfect Prescription for COVID-19 | Billing and Reimbursement: Telehealth is Here to Stay | November 9, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #billing #reimbursement #telehealth #telemedicine #telemedicine sustainability

In this series of presentations, Dr. Steve Tierney and Karen McIntire share the story of how Southcentral Foundation has responded to COVID-19 and approached telemedicine during the pandemic. Then, James Spillane, discusses billing, reimbursement and the sustainability of telemedicine in the Indian Healthcare System. ...

Date added: 11/9/20

Past Presentation

IHS Update | Virtual Visits: A User’s Manual | November 5, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #IHS updates #telehealth #telemedicine #virtual visits

In this series of presentations, Dr. Michael Toedt, Medical Director for the Indian Health Service, gives a national update on COVID-19. Then Dr. Lee H. Schwamm, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Mass General Brigham, share approaches to and a ...

Date added: 11/5/20

	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