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Starting and Maintaining a Gender Care Clinic | June 25, 2024

Type: Limited Access Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #affirming #care #gender

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jennie Wei, MD, MPH, shares the story of Gallup Indian Medical Center initiating a gender-affirming care clinic. Dr. Wei discusses the basic logistics of clinic set-up, augmenting services, streamlining care, building patient panels, ongoing ...

Date added: 05/7/24

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Indigenizing Gender-affirming Care | June 25, 2024

Type: Limited Access Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #affirming #care #gender #indigenized #model

In this series of presentations, Dr. Itai Jeffries (Yesah/Occaneechi), PhD, reviews an Indigenized gender-affirming care model and provides examples of Indigenized gender-affirming care considerations.

Date added: 05/7/24

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Gender-Affirming Care Gathering Welcome | June 25, 2024

Type: Limited Access Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #affirming #care #gender

In this series of remarks, Rick Haverkate, the IHS National HCV/HIV Program Director, provides a welcome and introduction to the Gender-affirming Care Gathering program. Rick describes access to gender-affirming care in Indian Health Service and Tribal facilities and provides a ...

Date added: 05/7/24

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Maternal Mental Health: How to provide support for pregnant and postpartum people and their families | May 28, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Care and Access for Pregnant People

Keywords: #birthing #maternal #mental health #pregnancy

In this series of presentations, we focus on Maternal Mental Health: How to provide support for pregnant and postpartum people and their families featuring updates from the 2024 Family Care Plans and HRSA’s Maternal Mental Health Hotline. The Family Care ...

Date added: 05/1/24

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NASH Update 2024 | May 1, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #aasld #fatty liver #hepatitis #liver #MASLD #nafl #NAFLD #NASH #SLD

In this presentation, Dr. Richard Manch, MD, provides a comprehensive overview and update as it relates to Steatotic Liver Disease (SLD) and particularly, Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD). Furthermore, Dr. Manch provides an American Association for the Study ...

Date added: 05/1/24

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Journey to Health ECHO | April 11, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #*ceremonial #*culturally informed care #*first nations #*Indigenous health #*soul wound #*wholistic health #aian #american indian #decolonizing #healthcare #historical trauma #indigenous #indigenous perspective #medicine wheel #mental health #trauma #trauma care #traumatic #wellness

In this presentation, Renee Linklater, PhD (Rainy River First Nation), discusses Working in the Context of Indigenous Health: Trauma and Culturally Informed Care. Please note: the presentation on 4.11.24 was not recorded.

Date added: 05/1/24

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Vaccine Confidence Toolkit

Type: Download

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology Infectious Disease

Keywords: #resource collection #vaccination #vaccine confidence #vaccines

The Vaccine Confidence Toolkit from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona is a compilation of useful online vaccine related resources. Included in the toolkit are several hyperlinks to organizations and websites that support and promote vaccinations. The toolkit includes items ...

Date added: 04/30/24

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Policies & Procedures

IHS PrEP Policy

Type: Download Policies & Procedures

Audience: Clinical

Program: HIV PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis)

Keywords: #guidelines #hiv #IHS #prep

From 2017-2021, the Native population was the only racial or ethnic group of people to see an increase in new HIV diagnoses. A simple but powerful tool called HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) can effectively prevent someone from acquiring HIV when ...

Date added: 04/26/24

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Understanding the Bi-directional Relationship Between Periodontal Disease and Diabetes | May 9, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #diabetes #gum #periodontal

In this presentation, CAPT Eric Jewell DDS, MDS, National Indian Health Service (IHS) Periodontal Consultant describes periodontal (gum) disease, examines the bi-directional relationship between periodontal disease and diabetes and identifies the pathways that relate periodontal disease to diabetes.

Date added: 04/26/24

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Self-Care and Healing through the Elements (Fire, Earth, Air and Water) | April 25, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO

Keywords: #caregiver training #dementia care #elements #healing #self care

In this presentation, Jillene Joseph (Aaniiih), Executive Director for the Native Wellness Institute, shares practical self-care and healing strategies through the elements - fire, earth, air and water.

Date added: 04/24/24

	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