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Past Presentation

The Gut Microbiome | February 13, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Our gut bacteria are blamed for many health problems, including weight gain and diabetes. Dr. Mary Carol Greenlee, a private practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology, examines how managing the gut microbiome might impact diabetes treatment.

Date added: 02/13/20

Past Presentation

Trickster Tails | February 6, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #indigenous knowledge #opioids #OUD #traditions

Dr. Danica Love Brown, Behavioral Health Manager at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, demonstrates how traditional indigenous knowledge and stories can aid in overcoming trauma related to opioid addiction.

Date added: 02/6/20

Past Presentation

Medications for Opioid Use Disorder: Who Should Get What When? | January 16, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #buprenorphine #methadone #naltrexone #opioid substitution therapy #opioids #OUD

Dr. Jessica Gregg, Associate Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, compares methadone, buprenorphine, and extended release naltrexone in terms of efficacy on a stable dose, induction, retention, and systems-level constraints.

Date added: 01/16/20

Past Presentation

Diabetes Management in Patients with Renal Disease | January 9, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #diabetes management #kidney disease #renal disease

Dr. Mary Carol Greenlee, a private practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology in Grand Junction, Colorado, offers evidence-based suggestions for managing diabetes in patients with end-stage kidney disease.

Date added: 01/9/20

Past Presentation

Maternal Substance Use Disorders and Infant Withdrawal Syndromes in Hospital Deliveries Among American Indians/Alaska Natives | December 19, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #fetal alcohol spectrum disorder #infant withdrawal #maternal child health #maternal substance use disorders #neonatal abstinence syndrome

In this presentation, Dr. Chiao-Wen Lan, Dr. Tom Weiser, and Sujata Joshi from the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, discuss how prenatal exposure to substances can negatively affect fetal development. They also look at the effects on fetal development ...

Date added: 12/19/19

Past Presentation

Microdose Buprenorphine Inductions | December 5, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #buprenorphine #microdosing #outpatient microdosing

Dr. Jennifer Hartley, a Family Medicine Practitioner at Portland Urgent Care, defines microdosing, provides an overview of microdosing protocols for buprenorphine, reviews several case studies, and explains how to implement outpatient buprenorphine microdosing.

Date added: 12/5/19

Past Presentation

Let’s Talk About PrEP | November 21, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #HIV prevention #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep

Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Service, and Whitney Essex, Family Nurse Practitioner for Cherokee Nation Health Service, explain PrEP, the process in which an HIV-negative person who is at very high risk for acquiring ...

Date added: 11/21/19

Past Presentation

Complex Persistent Dependence, Withdrawal and Opioid Use Disorder | November 7, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #addiction #opioid use disorder #OUD #withdrawal #withdrawal symptoms

Dr. Jane Ballantyne, an Anesthesiologist at the University of Washington Medical Center, speaks about effective management of patients with persistent opioid dependence and addiction. Dr. Ballantyne shares challenges in and strategies for overcoming opioid dependence and managing withdrawal symptoms.

Date added: 11/7/19

Past Presentation

Substance Data Sources for Program and Public Health Planning | October 17, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #data sharing #public health planning #sud epidemiology

Sujata Joshi and Heidi Lovejoy, epidemiologists at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, speak about SUD data collection efforts at tribal epidemiology centers across Indian Country. They provide sources of data for tribes at the local and national levels ...

Date added: 10/17/19

Past Presentation

Creating Affirming Clinic Environments for Two Spirit and LGBTQ Patients | October 3, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #affirming environments #affirming spaces #transgender care

Morgan Thomas, Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ Outreach Coordinator at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, speaks about the importance of creating affirming clinic spaces for Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ patients, and describes four actionable elements that create affirming environments. ...

Date added: 10/3/19

	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