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Past Presentation

Journey to Health ECHO | September 22nd, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #aian #ceremony #community based interventions #Community healing #Culture as prevention #familial healing #health #historical trauma #interventions #standards of practice #traditional indigenous knowledge #trauma

In this presentation, Alison Whitemore discusses trauma and indigenous strategies for healing and helping, including the healing tools of ceremony and familial healing.

Date added: 09/23/22

Past Presentation

COVID-19 Clinical Update | September 21, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid #covid clinical updates #covid treatment #monkeypox

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, discusses the latest COVID-19 and Monkeypox clinical updates, including HIV and STIs among persons with Monkeypox, CDC recommendations, epidemiology, common questions, viral ...

Date added: 09/21/22

Training

Sih Hasin Street Medicine | September 16, 2022

Type: Training

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: #decreasing barriers to care #homelessness #street medicine

In this presentation, Dr Asha Atwell provides a background of street medicine and discusses development of the Sih Hasin program and services provided. Dr Atwell also shares a definition of homelessness, insight about the trust gaining step of developing a ...

Date added: 09/21/22

Training

Alaska Community Health Aide Program | September 16, 2022

Type: Training

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: ##CHAP #community health aide

In this presentation, Dr Michelle Hensel and Dr Jessica Judy provide an overview of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium's Community Health Aide Program (CHAP). Dr Hensel and Dr Judy discuss the history of the program, the role of CHAP's ...

Date added: 09/21/22

Training

Structural Inequalities and Health | September 16, 2022

Type: Training

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: #health policy #social determinants #structural inequalities

In this discussion, Dr Celine Gounder reflects on the roots of structural inequities of health as brought to light by the Covid pandemic, with attention to policy and legal foundations, current research on Indigenous lands, and reproductive justice.

Date added: 09/20/22

Training

Infectious Disease Emergencies in Indian Country | September 16, 2022

Type: Training

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: #coccidioidomycosis #hantavirus #plague

In this presentation, Dr Jonathan Iralu discusses the history, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and therapies for three infectious disease emergencies in Indian Country. Dr Iralu provides emergency medicine clinical pearls for Plague, Coccidioidomycosis, and Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome.

Date added: 09/20/22

Training

Syphilis Update | September 16, 2022

Type: Training

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS Syphilis ECHO

Keywords: #congenital syphils #pregnancy #STIs #syphilis #syphilis prevention #syphilis treatment #testing

In this presentation for emergency medicine clinicians, Dr James McAuley, provides the latest update on the rising number of Syphilis cases, and encourages testing broadly. Dr McAuley discusses risk factors for exposure, the changing epidemiology of syphilis, staging and interpretation ...

Date added: 09/20/22

Training

Initial Management of the Critically Ill Infant | September 16, 2022

Type: Training

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: #airway #breathing #circulation #infant #medical emergencies

In this presentation, Dr Richard Cantor discusses the "ABC's" of unstable infants, including general management principles of vascular access, airway, breathing and circulation problems. Dr Cantor provides illustrative cases also focusing on shock, cyanosis, seizures and lethargy.

Date added: 09/20/22

Training

An Indigenous Rights-Based Approach to Emergency Medicine | September 16, 2022

Type: Training

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: #health disparities #healthcare #healthcare delivery #Indigenous rights #medical emergencies

In this keynote presentation, Victor Lopez Carmen provides context on Context on Indigenous Peoples' rights (including Indigenous patients), as per the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and discusses the relationship between Indigenous rights and health disparities, ...

Date added: 09/20/22

Past Presentation

CHRs and Monkeypox | September 15, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Community Health Representative

In this presentation, Dr. Laura Hammitt provides an overview of what Monkeypox is, prevention, the typical signs and symptoms, and current treatment and vaccination recommendations. Then, Kristen Speakman, Tara Stowbunenko, Anna Sunbo and Kristen Tallis from the Johns Hopkins Center ...

Date added: 09/16/22

	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