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Past Presentation

Facial Trauma | September 15, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

In this presentation, Dr. Whitney Barrett discusses facial trauma. She reviews facial anatomy, injury identification and assessment, management of facial injuries, and addressing pain management for facial trauma.

Date added: 09/15/22

Past Presentation

ReIndigenizing ACEs: Culture is Prevention | September 12 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #ACEs #culture #Culture as prevention #culture-based strategies #indigenous knowledge

Shilo George talks about the ACE program and how it should be adapted to be used by the Indigenous community. They also talk about how indigenous youth have already contributed to how people look at the ACE program.

Date added: 09/13/22

Past Presentation

NW Elders ECHO | September 13th, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Elders, Knowledge Holders and Culture Keepers

Keywords: #community care #culturally competent care #culture-based strategies #elders #indigenous knowledge #opioids #relationality #traditional indigenous knowledge

The Northwest Elders and Knowledge Keepers ECHO session took place on September 13th, 2022. In this presentation, faculty panel member Marilyn Scott discusses the ways in which the Upper Skagit tribal community has found hope in the midst of the ...

Date added: 09/13/22

Past Presentation

Journey to Health ECHO | September 8th, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #aian #Brief Intervention #Community healing #emergency medicine #health #outpatient #Referral #Referral to Treatment #SBIRT #Screening #trauma-informed care #treatment

In this presentation, Sheryl Livingston, MA, LPC, discusses a SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, & Referral to Treatment) in both Emergency and Outpatient settings.

Date added: 09/13/22

Past Presentation

Managing Burn Out and Compassion Fatigue | September 20, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #burn out #compassion #fatigue #pharm #pharmacist

In this presentation, CAPT Ted Hall, PharmD, discusses evidence-based neuroscientific research on the health benefits of mindfulness and contemplative practices, demonstrates how a sustained personal contemplative practice enhances brain health to protect against compassion fatigue and burn out and facilitates ...

Date added: 09/12/22

Past Presentation

Minimally Invasive Dentistry: Patient Behavior Change – When and how do you decide to restore and provide definitive treatment-PART II | September 14, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Oral Health

Keywords: #behavior #caries #connection #dentist #dentistry #mid #oral #teeth

In this series of presentations, Dr. Sean Kelly, DDS, MSc, and Pam Ready, RDH review Minimally Invasive Dentistry concepts, discuss patient caries risk assessments, discuss behavior changes to improve patient connections and dental health, and when and how to decide ...

Date added: 09/11/22

Past Presentation

Monkeypox Update | September 19, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: #monkeypox #MP

In this presentation, Dr. Safia Rubaii and Dr. Jonathan Rozehnal discuss two cases involving monkeypox in the ED setting. Then, Dr. Miranda Durham, MD, provides an update on Monkeypox, including the history of the virus, current epidemiological trends, transmission, disease ...

Date added: 09/9/22

Past Presentation

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Prevention of HIV 101 | September 15, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #covid-19 #hiv #monkeypox #MP #prep #prevention

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director, provides a brief clinical update on emerging COVID-19 topics. Then, Dr. Alithea Gabrellas, MD, presents on HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). Dr. Gabrellas identifies indications for HIV testing, prescribing PrEP, ...

Date added: 09/9/22

Past Presentation

Academic Approach to Global Surgery and Trauma Care | September 14, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: IHS Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #academic #disease #ed #emergency #er #global #surgery #surgical #trauma #traumatic

In this presentation, Dr. Saad Liaqat Sahi, MD, presents on an academic approach to global surgery and trauma care. Dr. Sahi identifies the three main approaches to global health care deliver, reviews the global burden of surgical disease and traumatic ...

Date added: 09/9/22

Past Presentation

Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment | September 8, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #cognitive impairment #dementia #mini cog #Screening

Early detection of impaired cognition can slow progression and improve function in Alzheimer’s disease and other kinds of progressive dementia, help persons living with dementia and their family to prepare and adapt, and can help find and treat conditions that ...

Date added: 09/8/22

	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