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diaTribe

Type: Website

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #diabetes #diabetes education #living with diabetes #patient education #wellness

The mission of the diaTribe Foundation is to help people with diabetes and prediabetes and to advocate for action. Their website includes information for both patients and providers to understand diabetes, as well as information about living well with diabetes.

Date added: 09/4/24

Website

dStigmatize

Type: Website

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #destigmatization #diabetes #patient communication #stigmatization

dStigmatize is an organization seeking to end the stigmatization of people with diabetes. Their website includes training materials and resources for providers.

Date added: 09/4/24

Past Presentation

EMS Approach To The Patient With A Headache | September 3 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medical Services

Keywords: #concussion #head pain #headache #tbi

In this presentation Dr. Kimberly Pruett provides a focused approach to managing patients with headaches. She covers the evaluation process, treatment protocols, and differentiating between various causes of headaches and head pain. It emphasizes key symptoms to watch for, how ...

Date added: 09/3/24

Past Presentation

Helping People with Diabetes Thrive with Time in Range | September 12, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #cgm #coalition #diabetes #dm #glucose #range #tar #tbr #time #tir

In this presentation, Audree Hall, the Digital Campaign Manager of the Time in Range Coalition, delivers a comprehensive overview of the coalition's mission to transform diabetes care. The Time in Range Coalition is a collaborative initiative that unites the diabetes ...

Date added: 09/3/24

Past Presentation

Treat Addiction Like a Chronic Disease in Ambulatory Care: With Confidence and Compassion | September 17, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #addiction #Ambulatory #care #integration #outcomes #pharm #pharmacy #primary #reimbursement #Screening #SUD

In this presentation, Dr. Jeffrey Paul Bratberg, Pharm.D., FAPhA, Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Research at the University of Rhode Island, explores the integration of addiction care into ambulatory settings. The session covers strategies for incorporating addiction screening, ...

Date added: 08/30/24

Past Presentation

Training

Providing PrEP and PEP Services at your Clinic | September 11, 2024

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #hiv #pep #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep

In this presentation, Andrew Yu, MS, BSN, RN, ACRN, and Leah Besh, PA-C, discuss providing PrEP and PEP services at your clinic.

Date added: 08/27/24

Past Presentation

Training

Starting an Effective Model to End the Syndemic at IHS | September 11, 2024

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #harm reduction #naloxone #primary care #sterile equipment #syringe

In this presentation, Whitney Dickson, PharmD, shares the story of Cass Lake Indian Health Service choosing to start a harm reduction program, how they understood the need for local harm reduction services, the steps they took to initiate harm reduction ...

Date added: 08/27/24

Past Presentation

Training

Harm Reduction in Alaska | September 11, 2024

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #alaska #harm reduction

In this presentation, Maya Bowers, Venus Staten and Hannah Gumlickpuk provide an overview on harm reduction, including what it is, how it can be implemented and the role it plays in Alaska.

Date added: 08/27/24

Past Presentation

Training

Hepatitis C Screening and Treatment | September 11, 2024

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #hcv #hcv screening #hcv treatment #hepatitis c

In this presentation, Brian McMahon, MD and Lisa Townshend-Bulson, RN, MSN, FNP-C from the ANTHC Liver Disease & Hepatitis Program discuss hepatitis C screening and treatment. They cover why screening for hepatitis C is important, how to recognize ways to ...

Date added: 08/27/24

Past Presentation

Training

Syphilis Epidemiology, Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment and Case Management | September 11, 2024

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #management #primary care #Screening #syphilis #treatment

In this presentation, Dr. Melanie Taylor, Medical Epidemiologist for the CDC and Captain with the United States Public Health Service, provides a primary care approach to Eliminating Syphilis in Indian Country. Dr. Taylor reviews surveillance, screening, management and treatment recommendations ...

Date added: 08/27/24

	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