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1918 Influenza and its Impact on the Fort Hall Reservation | COVID-19 Clinical Update | February 2, 2022

Date of Presentation: February 2, 2022

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Virology  

Keywords: #covid clinical updates  #influenza  #pandemic  

In this series of presentations, Ms. Yvette Tuell (Shoshone-Bannock) discusses the history, impacts and lessons learned from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on the Fort Hall Reservation. The historical review helps to better understand and learn from past
tribal experience with a deadly virus and pandemic, provides a better understanding of how the 1918 influenza virus impacted the Fort Hall community and humanizes the health experience and prevents loss of the significant individual impacts to the Fort Hall community. Then, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, and Whitney Essex, ECHO faculty member and Family Nurse Practitioner at Cherokee Nation Health Services, discusses the latest clinical updates for COVID-19 treatment and management by primary care.

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Presented by:

Ms. Yvette Tuell | Dr. Jorge Mera

Ms. Yvette Tuell, a Shoshone-Bannock Tribal member, has a unique interest in Native American history, Tribal rights, environmental/natural resource management, federal agency and tribal consultation, with approximately twenty years of experience in the natural, cultural and environmental resource field.  Ms. Tuell received a Masters in US History, specifically on Native American history, and earned graduate certificates in Public History and Historic Preservation from the University of Utah. She has a particular interest in incorporating Tribal history into the federal land management of public lands within tribal aboriginal territory.

Dr. Jorge Mera is the Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services (CNHS), the largest tribally operated health care system in the United States. He completed his fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and is Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in Infectious Diseases. During recent years Jorge’s efforts have been dedicated to organizing the Cherokee Nation HCV elimination program, as well as the HIV/HCV ECHO project. He is also the Director of the HIV clinic since 2012 and the Principal Investigator of the End the HIV Epidemic for the CNHS. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine of the Oklahoma State University Health Science Center and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

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Date added: February 2, 2022