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Past Presentation

Journey to Health ECHO | July 13th, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #AI/AN healthcare #aian #alaska native #american indian #Community healing #cultural competence #Cultural Competency #cultural considerations #culture #growth #professional development #relationality #traditional indigenous knowledge

In this presentation, Andrew Hunt, MSW, (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina) discusses Improving Cultural Competency when Serving American Indian and Alaska Natives. Andrew defines the term “cultural competence” and identifies the five elements of the cultural competence model. He also shares ...

Date added: 07/13/23

Past Presentation

Tips from the Trenches: A Care Partner’s Reflection on Resources that can Help Families Prepare for the Dementia Journey | July 13 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Clinical Dementia

Keywords: #caregiver support #dementia care #dementia resources #depression and dementia

In this presentation, Allyson Schrier, Program Manager, UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center, shares tips from the trenches as a care partner and shares resources she wishes the diagnosing doctor had shared with her.

Date added: 07/13/23

Past Presentation

An Organized Approach to Life Threatening Pulmonary Embolism | July 12 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: IHS Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis (CDT) #ECMO #Inari FlowTriever Thrombectomy Catheter #PE toolkit #Pulmonary Embolism

Pulmonany Embolism (PE) accounts for approximately 100,000 deaths annually in the USA, consistently ranking in the top 5 causes of sudden death. In this presentation Dr. Sundeep Guliani discusses the epidemiology and pathophysiology of PE, classifications and risk stratifications, the ...

Date added: 07/12/23

Past Presentation

NW Elders ECHO | July 11, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Elders, Knowledge Holders and Culture Keepers

Keywords: #canoe #canoe journey #canoeing #culturally competent care #culture-based strategies #elders #healing of the canoe #indigenous knowledge #traditional indigenous knowledge

The Northwest Elders and Knowledge Keepers ECHO session took place on July 11th, 2023. In this presentation, Jefferson Greene (Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs) provides an overview on Canoe Journey. The faculty panel members for this session of the Northwest ...

Date added: 07/11/23

Past Presentation

IHB Fertility Considerations

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trans & Gender Affirming Care

Date added: 07/10/23

Past Presentation

Virtual Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD): Implementation, Outcomes and Lessons Learned | July 10, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Virtual Care Implementation

Keywords: #opiate use disorder #OUD #VCI #virtual #virtual care

In this presentation, Dr. Bradley Buchheit MD, outlines the rapid transition of the Harm Reduction and Bridges to Care (HRBR) Clinic from in-person visits to 100% telemedicine during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. The talk will outline the current HRBR ...

Date added: 07/7/23

Past Presentation

Indigenous Trauma and SUD Care – Trickster Spirits | July 6 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #cultural #indigenous #stories #tales #trauma #trickster

In this presentation, Dr. Danica Love Brown, ECHO faculty member and Behavioral Health Director at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, discusses indigenous trauma, Trickster Spirits, and other cultural considerations in addressing substance use disorders.

Date added: 07/6/23

Past Presentation

IHS E3 Vaccine Strategy | July 20, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #covid-19 #e3 #id #strategy #vaccine

In this series of presentations, Dr. Alithea Gabrellas, Infectious Diseases Physician at Gallup Indian Medical Center, provides a clinical update on emerging COVID-19 and infectious disease topics. Then, Dr. Matthew A. Clark, Chair of the IHS National Pharmacy and Therapeutics ...

Date added: 07/6/23

Past Presentation

Supporting Pregnant and Parenting People Experiencing SUDs | July 18, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Advancing Pharmacist Roles in Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Teams

Keywords: #families #family #family care plans #neonatal #nows #opioid #posc #pregnancy #pregnant #substance #SUD #withdrawal

In this presentation, Dr. Sherry Daker, PharmD, MHA, highlights best practices for supporting pregnant and parenting people, partners, and families experiencing substance use disorders. Dr. Daker shares the impacts of substance use disorder on pregnant and parenting people, infants, and ...

Date added: 07/1/23

Video

PrEP Video Series

Type: Video

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: HIV

Keywords: #community education #hiv #HIV prevention #patient education #prep

This series of community education videos aims to remind the Indigenous communities on the importance of PrEP for preventing HIV.

Date added: 06/30/23

	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