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Past Presentation

Telehealth Policy Updates | April 18, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Keywords: #policy update #telehealth #VCI #virtual #virtual care

In this presentation, Chris Fore, Ph.D, presents a review of IHS Telehealth and the unwinding of the Public Health Emergency.

Date added: 04/17/23

Past Presentation

Supporting Pregnant and Parenting People Experiencing SUDs | April 19, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #parents #pregnancy #pregnant #substance use disorder #SUD #SUD treatment

In this series of presentation, Dr Sherry Daker, PharmD, MHA, Treatment and Recovery Co-Lead for the IHS National Committee on Heroin, Opioids & Pain Efforts, highlights best practices for supporting pregnant and parenting people, partners, and families experiencing substance use disorders. ...

Date added: 04/17/23

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HIV 101 | April 20, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #covid-19 #hiv #id #virus

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director, provides a clinical update on emerging COVID-19 topics. Then, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, presents on HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) in primary care. ...

Date added: 04/16/23

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COVID-19 Clinical Update | April 19, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid #covid clinical updates #covid treatment #influenza #vaccine

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, including epi trends, national emerging variants, the latest on how community metrics and actions should ...

Date added: 04/16/23

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Evaluation of Chest Pain | April 17, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Cardiology

Keywords: #angina #cardiac #Chest pain #heart

In this series of presentations, CAPT Dena Wilson, MD, FACC, cardiologist and Chief Medical Officer for the Phoenix Area IHS, provides a welcome to the inaugural Cardiology ECHO program. Then, Dr. Leon Ptaszek, MD, PhD, cardiologist and Assistant Professor of ...

Date added: 04/13/23

Past Presentation

Diabetes Foot Care: Footwear Assessment & Foot Care Education | April 13, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #diabetes #foot care #foot exam #footwear

In this presentation, Dr. Carol Greenlee, endocrinologist, discusses the importance of footwear and foot care for people with diabetes. Dr. Greenlee focuses on identifying risk factors predictive of ulcers and amputations, and discuss recommendations for what should be included as ...

Date added: 04/13/23

Past Presentation

Journey to Health ECHO | April 13th, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #AI/AN healthcare #aian #Community healing #navajo #navajo wellness #navajo wellness model #traditional healing #traditional medicine #wellness model

In this presentation, Shawnell Damon, MPH, MSC, and Rich Begay discuss the Navajo Wellness Model in the first of a special two part series.

Date added: 04/13/23

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Pregnancy and Harm Reduction: A Harm Reduction Toolkit

Type: Download Handouts

Audience: Clinical Community

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

Keywords: #maternal substance use disorders #patient education #pregnancy

This toolkit, developed in cooperation with the National Harm Reduction Coalition, was created for pregnant and parenting people who use drugs, their loved ones, and their service providers. The purpose of this toolkit is to promote the overall health and ...

Date added: 04/13/23

Past Presentation

NW Elders ECHO | April 11, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Elders, Knowledge Holders and Culture Keepers

Keywords: #community #community care #culturally competent care #culture-based strategies #elders #indigenous knowledge #self care #spiritual care #traditional indigenous knowledge

The Northwest Elders and Knowledge Keepers ECHO session took place on April 11th, 2023. In this presentation, Danica Brown, PhD, MSW, CACIII provides an overview on Self, Community, and Spiritual Care. The faculty panel members for this session of the ...

Date added: 04/12/23

Past Presentation

Benzodiazepine De-prescribing | April 6th 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #benzo #benzodiazepines #SUD #withdrawal

In this presentation, Dr. Jasen Christensen, DO, teaches on how to be aware of host and medication factors that influence withdrawal, be aware of new data about Buprenorphine + Benzodiazepine overdose risk, how to be able to employ outpatient Benzodiazepine ...

Date added: 04/6/23

	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