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Past Presentation

Evaluation of Palpitations in an Outpatient Setting | January 22, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #cardiac #heart #outpatient #palpitations

In this presentation, Dr. Leon Ptaszek, MD, PhD, cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician on the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital, describes appropriate diagnostic testing for evaluation of palpitations, how ...

Date added: 01/20/24

Past Presentation

Sexual Assault Exams in Rural EDs | January 22, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: #ed #exams #forensic #sexual assault

In this presentation, Dr. Stacey Mitchell, provides an overview of sexual assault exams in rural emergency departments. Dr. Mitchell describes the role of the forensic health care provider, identifies the steps in the medical-forensic examination for sexual assault, and discusses ...

Date added: 01/18/24

Past Presentation

Capnography | January 18th, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medical Services

Keywords: #airway #airway management #capnography #ems

In this presentation, Dr. C. Mateo Garcia discusses Capnography and how it is the gold standard of airway and respiratory monitoring. He goes over the basics behind capnography, the systems used, the phases of reading and understanding various waves as ...

Date added: 01/18/24

Past Presentation

COVID-19 Clinical Update | January 17, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid #covid clinical updates #covid treatment #diagnostic guidelines #long covid

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, discuss the latest COVID-19 clinical updates, treatment updates and long COVID. He also discusses RSV and other emerging infectious diseases.

Date added: 01/17/24

Past Presentation

Cirrhotic Ascites | January 17, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #ascites #cirrhosis #hcv #management #paracentesis

In this presentation Richard Manch, MD, discusses management of patients with ascites. He discusses the indications and contraindications for paracentesis, initial laboratory investigation of ascitic fluid, the core elements for treatment of ascites (including sodium restriction, appropriate use of diuretics, ...

Date added: 01/17/24

Past Presentation

Delirium vs Dementia | January 11 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia

Keywords: #confusion #delirium #dementia #depression #elder care

Delirium is an acute confusional state, also called metabolic encephalopathy. In this presentation Dr. Blythe Winchester discusses key features, risk factors, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of delirium. She shares on the differences between dementia, delirium, and depression, followed by several ...

Date added: 01/12/24

Past Presentation

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) | January 18, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #covid #respiratory #rsv #virus

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, provides a clinical update on emerging COVID-19, and infectious disease topics. Then, Dr. James McAuley, Chief Medical Officer at the Whiteriver Service Unit, IHS, ...

Date added: 01/12/24

Past Presentation

Mealtime Insulin Therapy | February 8, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #diabetes #ICR #insulin #mealtime #prandial #t1d #t2d #type 1 #type 2

In this presentation, Dr. Carol Greenlee, endocrinologist, discusses mealtime insulin therapy for Type 1 and 2 Diabetes. Dr. Greenlee reviews this critical component of insulin therapy, its initiation, and optimal administration timing, as well as, the pathophysiology of postprandial hyperglycemia ...

Date added: 01/12/24

Past Presentation

Journey to Health ECHO | January 11th, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #aian #alaska native #american indian #behavioral health #dine #indigenous stories #navajo #stories #traditional indigenous knowledge #traditional stories #winter #winter stories

In this presentation, Rich Begay, shares Traditional Navajo Winter Stories. Please note this presentation was not recorded. Please reach out to echo@npaihb.org if you have any questions.

Date added: 01/11/24

Past Presentation

No SANE in Sight: An Intro to a Training for All Clinicians | January 10, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Program: IHS Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #sane #sexual assault #training

In this presentation, Angelita Olowu, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, Forensic Nursing Director at the International Association of Forensic Nurses, provides an introduction to the Appendix C of the National Training Standards 2nd ed., which provides the minimum knowledge recommendations for ...

Date added: 01/9/24

	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