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Past Presentation

Supporting Pregnant and Parenting People Experiencing SUDs | June 28, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: General Session Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #grand rounds #parents #pregnancy #pregnant #substance use disorder #SUD #SUD treatment

Indian Country ECHO in partnership with the IHS HOPE Committee hosted a Grand Rounds focused on supporting American Indian and Alaska Native pregnant and parenting people experiencing SUDs. In this series of presentations, Dr Mishka Terplan highlights best practices for ...

Date added: 04/25/22

Past Presentation

HIV 101 | May 19, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #covid-19 #hiv #id #virus

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director, provides a clinical update on emerging COVID-19 topics. Then, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, presents on HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).

Date added: 04/22/22

Past Presentation

Healthy Homes Asthma Management Program | April 28, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Maternal and Child Health Early Relational Health (ERH): Parents, Caregivers, and Babies ECHO

Keywords: #asthma #chronic asthma

In this series of presentations, Dr Ryan Pett, clinical pharmacist at Yakama Indian Health Center, will present a case from a NW tribal community. Then, LCDR Shawn Blackshear, Senior Environmental Health Specialist at Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, shares ...

Date added: 04/21/22

Past Presentation

Cultural Wellness | April 21, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Keywords: #cultural wellness #culture #wellness

In this presentation, Brian Laban (Hopi/Tewa) will share his wellness approach working at the community level. The one-hour session includes opportunities to engage in a discussion on the qualities and behaviors associated with cultural wellness.

Date added: 04/21/22

Past Presentation

Past Pandemics and Their Outcomes | Clinical Updates | April 20, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical update #covid treatment #covid variants #covid-19 vaccines

In this series of presentations, Dr. Thomas Becker, Medical Epidemiologist and ECHO faculty member, discusses non-Covid pandemics, how they changed societal and individuals’ behavior and what happened in their disease histories to alter their course/s. Then Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO ...

Date added: 04/19/22

Past Presentation

Alcohol Use Disorder: April 19, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #alcohol #aud #substance #substance use #substance use disorder #SUD

For this session, Dr. Zeina Saliba, MD shares slides reviewing the pharmacological options for Alcohol Use Disorder. No recording will be made available for this didactic presentation.

Date added: 04/18/22

Past Presentation

Hepatitis B (HBV): The Basics | April 21, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #hbv #hepatitis #id #liver #serology #transmission #vaccination #virus

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, provides a clinical update on emerging COVID-19 topics. Then, Dr. Karla Thornton, Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of New ...

Date added: 04/18/22

Past Presentation

Diabetes and Dementia | April 14, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #dementia #dementia and diabetes #inducing dementia

In this presentation, J. Neil Henderson, PhD, discusses the connection between Diabetes and Dementia and poses the questions; are we inducing dementia in Indian Country? How much and what types of Dementia are we inducing? He discusses the colonized etiology ...

Date added: 04/14/22

Past Presentation

NW Elders ECHO | April 12, 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 #self care #spiritual care #traditional indigenous knowledge

The Northwest Elders and Knowledge Keepers ECHO session took place on April 12th, 2022. In this session, Dr. Danica Love Brown (Choctaw) and Chaplain Melissa Bennett (Umatilla/Nez Perce/Sac & Fox/Anishinaabe) present on the need for self, community, and spiritual care ...

Date added: 04/12/22

Past Presentation

STD Presentations

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #std presentation

Responding to the Rising Rates of Syphilis in Indigenous Communities | October 12, 2021 In this presentation, Dr Jorge Mera, MD, FACP, Indian Country ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services (CNHS), highlights best ...

Date added: 04/11/22

	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