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Past Presentation

Structured Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose | June 13, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #glucose #glucose self-monitoring

Dr. Mary Carol Greenlee, a private practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology in Grand Junction, Colorado, presents on the efficacy and potential benefits of self-monitoring of blood glucose.

Date added: 06/13/19

Past Presentation

Siletz Community Health Clinic: Implementing a Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Program | June 6, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #mat #medication assisted treatment #opioids #siletz

Lisa Taylor, a family nurse practitioner at Siletz Community Health Clinic, shares the story of the Siletz Community Health Clinic in creating a medication-assisted treatment program to combat the opioid epidemic in their community. She also discusses practical implementation of ...

Date added: 06/6/19

Past Presentation

Managing Pain in Patients with Substance Use Disorder | May 16, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #addiction #pain management

Dr. Jonathan Robbins, Internal Medicine Physician at OHSU, shows how the neurobiology of pain mirrors the neurobiology of addiction and identifies ways to improve pain management in patients with substance use disorders.

Date added: 05/16/19

Past Presentation

Integrating Culture-Based Strategies to Address SUDs | May 2, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #culturally competent care #culture-based strategies #indigenous health promotion

Dr. Melissa Walls, Director of the Great Lakes Hub for the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, examines the role of culture as a health promoting factor in AI/AN communities. She also conceptualizes dimensions of Indigenous culture most important ...

Date added: 05/2/19

Past Presentation

Helping with Diabetes: Avoiding Harm | May 2, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #glucotoxicity #uncontrolled diabetes

In this presentation, Dr. Mary Carol Greenlee, practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology in Grand Junction, Colorado, shares information about several harmful effects of uncontrolled diabetes, how to avoid these harmful effects, as well as strategies to support patients in reducing ...

Date added: 05/2/19

Past Presentation

The Role of Behavioral Interventions in Substance Use Disorder Treatment | April 18, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #behavioral health #experiential therapy #motivational enhancement therapy

Dr. Danica Love Brown, Behavioral Health Manager at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, describes different types of behavioral therapies, including cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, motivational enhancement therapy, and experiential therapies, and how they can assist in ...

Date added: 04/18/19

Past Presentation

Alcohol Use Disorder Pharmacotherapy | April 4, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #alcohol use disorder #pharmacotherapy

Dr. Zeina Saliba, Medical Director of George Washington University Hospital Psychiatric Services, discusses pharmalogic options for treating alcohol use disorder, their benefits, side-effects, and risks. Dr. Saliba also shares dosage guidance.

Date added: 04/4/19

Past Presentation

Introduction to Peer Recovery Mentors: A New Perspective in Non-Traditional Settings | March 21, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #peer mentors #peer recovery support

O'Nesha Cochran, a certified peer recovery mentor, shares her story and provides an overview of peer recovery support, how people interested in peer recovery can become certified, and potential barriers to peer support.

Date added: 03/21/19

Past Presentation

Surveillance To Detect Hepatocellular Carcinoma | March 12, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hepatocellular carcinoma #hepatology #liver disease #liver screening

Incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is rising quickly in the United States, and AI/AN people are being affected greater than any other group. Dr. Brian McMahon, Director of the Liver Disease and Hepatitis Program at the Alaska Native Tribal Health ...

Date added: 03/12/19

Past Presentation

The Language of Addiction | March 7, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #non-stigmatizing language #words matter

Dr. Karla Thornton, Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, speaks about the importance of using non-stigmatizing language in substance use and shares the language recommended by the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Date added: 03/7/19

	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