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Past Presentation

COVID-19 Contact Tracing Experiences | Clinical Update | September 9, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #contact tracing #covid clinical updates

In this session, 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. Then, Antoinette Aguirre & Ryan Sealy, Contact Tracing Leads ...

Date added: 09/9/20

Past Presentation

Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease | September 8, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #alcohol-related #hepatology #liver disease

Brian McMahon, MD, Hepatologist at Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, shares information on alcohol-associated liver disease and new practice guidelines from AASLD focused on the diagnosis and treatment of alcohol-associated liver diseases.

Date added: 09/8/20

Past Presentation

Clinical Update | COVID-19 Contact Tracing in Navajo Nation | September 3, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #contact tracing #covid clinical update #navajo nation

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, gives a weekly clinical update on COVID-19. Then Dr. Jill Moses, Case Management Lead for the Navajo Nation COVID-19 Response and Director of Public ...

Date added: 09/3/20

Past Presentation

Indigenous Harm Reduction | September 3, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Cherokee Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #ODMAP #Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program #syringe services

In this presentation, Vickie Bradley, RN, MPH, Secretary of Public Health and Human Services at Eastern Band Cherokee, provides an overview of their syringe service program.

Date added: 09/3/20

Past Presentation

Challenges in Addressing the Evolving Opioid Crisis During COVID-19 | September 3, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #covid and SUD #covid-19

Dr. Marwan Haddad and Daniel Bryant, LPC, from the Weitzman Institute, shares information on how they have met their SUD patient needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Date added: 09/3/20

Past Presentation

Public Health Policy and Practice Updates | Clinical Updates | September 2, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #covid resource drop

In this session, Whitney Essex, Family Nurse Practitioner at Infectious Diseases Cherokee Nation Health Services, shares dental care and COVID-19 considerations. Then, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, shares clinical updates as well as an ...

Date added: 09/2/20

Past Presentation

Harm Reduction at Lummi Tribal Health Center | September 1, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction

Keywords: #community stories #lummi

In this presentation, Jessica Rienstra, BSN, RN, Valerie Tyler, BS, and Stephanie Rey, BS, share the story of the Lummi Tribal Health Center's Harm Reduction Program - from it's origins to how it's adapted and thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Date added: 09/1/20

Past Presentation

Air Pollution & COVID-19 | Public Health Policy and Practice Updates | August 31, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #air pollution #covid clinical updates #covid resource drop

In this series of presentations, Dr. Thomas Becker provides an overview of the latest research on air pollution and COVID-19. Then, Brigg Reilley, MPH, provides a number of valuable COVID-19 related resources produced by the FDA and CDC as well as an overview ...

Date added: 08/31/20

Past Presentation

Tips for Managing Opioids in the Electronic Health Record | August 27, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Cherokee Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #ehr #opioid treatment #treatment agreements

In this presentation, Dr. James Stallcup, Chief Medical Information Officer and Medical Director at Wilma P. Mankiller Health Center at Cherokee Nation, reviews tips and tricks for managing opioids, treatment agreements and useful tools in Cerner EHR.

Date added: 08/27/20

Past Presentation

Trauma-Informed Care for Transgender/Non-Binary Patients | August 26, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trans & Gender Affirming Care

Keywords: #gender bias #trauma #trauma-informed care

Aster Wolfe, a registered nurse based in Portland, Oregon, presents on the principles and practice of trauma informed care, the trauma exposure of trans and non-binary patients, and the stress response that trauma can cause. Mr. Wolfe also shares how ...

Date added: 08/26/20

	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