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Past Presentation

Buprenorphine: Prescribing and Review of Literature (Part 2) | August 3, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #benzo #benzodiazepine #bup #buprenorphine #hcv #induction #naloxone #opioid use disorder #OUD

In this presentation, Dr. Jasen Christensen presents on buprenorphine and other options for managing opioid use disorder. Dr. Christensen reviews buprenorphine induction, literature informing current prescribing best practices, and discusses data supporting buprenorphine for chronic pain.

Date added: 08/3/22

Past Presentation

Status Epilepticus | August 1, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: #emergency #emergency medicine #emric #seizure #status epileptics

In this presentation, Dr. John Rozehnal, MD, discusses status epilepticus in the emergency setting. Dr. Rozehnal reviews urgent decision making, causes, and emergency interventions.

Date added: 08/1/22

Past Presentation

Strengthening Vaccine Confidence | July 28, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Maternal and Child Health

Keywords: #covid-19 vaccines #vaccine confidence #vaccines & children

In this presentation, Tam Lutz and Tyanne Conner of Native Boost discuss COVID-19 vaccines for children and boosting vaccine confidence.

Date added: 07/29/22

Past Presentation

Journey to Health ECHO | July 28th, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #ACEs #Adverse Childhood Experiences #aian #child abuse #child neglect #Community healing #Culture as prevention #health #historical trauma #intimate partner violence #Screening #sexual assault #traditional indigenous knowledge #trauma

In this series of presentations, Danica Brown, Maleah Nore, and Al Whitemore provide an overview of why it is important to screen for child abuse and neglect, sexual violence, intimate partner violence, youth violence, and ACEs, with a focus on ...

Date added: 07/28/22

Past Presentation

Hepatitis B Virus | July 27 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hbv #hepatitis #hepatitis b

In this presentation Dr. Karla Thornton discusses Hepatitis B Virus and serology interpretation. She describes the modes of transmission for HBV, how to identify appropriate baseline serologies for HBV and how to correctly interpret serologic tests for HBV.

Date added: 07/27/22

Past Presentation

2SLGBTQ Support Groups | July 25th 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #behavioral health #Community healing #peer support #social supports #support groups #trauma

The Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico talks about how they started their support group, and how they made it safe and comfortable for all people. They also model how to start a support group for those interested!

Date added: 07/26/22

Past Presentation

Diabetic Eye Disease | July 14, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #cataracts #Diabetic Macular Edema #diabetic retinopathy #Glaucoma #Vision loss

In this didactic presentation, Dr. Carol Greenlee, endocrinologist, provides a thorough 'Part 2' presentation on Diabetic Eye Disease.

Date added: 07/21/22

Past Presentation

Community Based Harm Reduction Program at the Lummi Tribal Health Center | July 19, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Virtual Care Implementation

The Hepatitis C and Harm Reduction team at the Lummi Tribal Health Center provides case management for people who are at risk or are currently in treatment for Hep C, and they also run the harm reduction program which includes ...

Date added: 07/20/22

Past Presentation

Infectious Disease Evaluation in People with SUDs | July 19, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #bacteremia #endocarditis #hep #hepatitis #hiv #id #infectious disease #skin #soft tissue #sti #SUD

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director, discusses comprehensive evaluation of common infectious diseases in people with substance use disorders.

Date added: 07/19/22

Past Presentation

Monkeypox Update | July 21, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #cdc #countermeasures #covid #covid-19 #epi #epidemiology #id #monkeypox #MP #transmission #virus

In this series of presentations, Dr. Alithea Gabrellas, MD, provides a brief clinical update on emerging COVID-19 topics. Then, Dr. Melanie Taylor, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist for the CDC, presents an update on Monkeypox (MP). Dr. Taylor will describe the ...

Date added: 07/17/22

	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