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Honoring Gender Diversity and Affirming Gender Identity in Children | June 13 2022

Keywords: #gender-affirming care #gender-diverse youth #pediatrics #transgender care

Dr. Chulani explains the Gender Affirmation Model and how to best support children in their gender story. This includes how to talk to parents about their child and what the best course of action can be when there are parents ...

Date added: 06/14/22

Past Presentation

Urinary Tract Infections | June 16, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #catheter #covid #id #infection #urinary #uti

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, provides a clinical update on emerging COVID-19 and monkeypox topics. Then, Dr. Alithea Gabrellas, MD, presents on infections of the urinary tract. Dr. Gabrellas ...

Date added: 06/9/22

Past Presentation

Tips from the Trenches: A Care Partner’s Reflection on Resources that can Help Families Prepare for the Dementia Journey | June 9 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #caregiver #caregiver support #dementia care #dementia resources #depression and dementia

In this presentation, Allyson Schrier, Program Manager, UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center, shares tips from the trenches as a care partner and shares resources she wishes the diagnosing doctor had shared with her.

Date added: 06/8/22

Past Presentation

Minimally Invasive Dentistry: Patient Risk Assessment and Recall Appointments | June 8, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Oral Health

Keywords: #caries #dentistry #mid #minimally invasive dentistry #oral health

In this series of presentations, Dr. Sean Kelly, Dental Support Center Clinical Consultant at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, reviews Minimally Invasive Dentistry concepts, discuss patient caries risk assessments and their use for a “Prevention Plan”, reviews the literature ...

Date added: 06/6/22

Training

HCV 101 | June 2, 2022

Type: Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv #hcv cure #hcv treatment #hep c #hepatitis

In this training, Dr. Jorge Mera and Whitney Essex discuss screening, treatment and management of patients with hepatitis C at the primary care level through didactic and case presentations, recommendations, and provides an opportunity to become part of a learning ...

Date added: 06/2/22

Past Presentation

Indigenous Story Work | June 2nd 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #oral tradition #stories #story telling #SUD

Through the practice of storywork and oral traditions, indigenous people learn to live in right relationship with the themselves, their families, communities, and all of creation. In this presentation, Dr. Danica Love Brown, Behavioral Health Manager at the Northwest Portland ...

Date added: 06/2/22

Past Presentation

Diné Cultural Sensitivity with the Seriously Ill | June 8, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: IHS Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #competency #cultural #culture #dine #ill #sensitivity

In this presentation, Ms. Sheila Goldtooth, explains culturally appropriate communication with seriously ill patients and their families, and identifies ways to practice respect of the Diné culture.

Date added: 06/1/22

Past Presentation

Managing Poly-SUD | June 7, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #CBT #poly #stigma #substance use disorder #SUD

In this presentation, CAPT Ted Hall, discusses the prevalence of poly-substance use disorder and practice based evidence strategies to treat and manage it. Furthermore, CAPT Hall discusses stigma and provides an introduction to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and concludes with ...

Date added: 06/1/22

Past Presentation

Journey to Health ECHO | May 26th, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #aian #child wellbeing #children #Community healing #covid-19 #Culture as prevention #health #historical trauma #resilience #stress management #trauma

During this session, Dr. Jessica Saniguq Ullrich will describe her work to develop a conceptual framework that makes visible Indigenous child wellbeing.

Date added: 05/26/22

Past Presentation

Congenital Syphilis on the Rise: Preventable and Treatable in Indian Country | May 26, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #congenital syphilis #pregnancy #syphilis

In this presentation, Dr Eitan Bornstein highlights best practices for responding to the rise of congenital syphilis rates in Indigenous communities. Dr Bornstein provides a brief syphilis 101 followed by the epidemiology of syphilis as well as syphilis in pregnancy ...

Date added: 05/26/22

	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