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Past Presentation

Preventing Violence by Encouraging Healthy Relationships | March 11, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #healthy relationships #prevention #protective factors #resilience #risk factors #trauma #violence

In this presentation, Kaylee Trottier introduces risk and protective factors for violence and prevention as well as intervention strategies behavioral health specialists can apply in their practice. Kaylee also includes case scenarios to identify and build on protective factors with partners ...

Date added: 03/10/22

Past Presentation

Brain Health in Indian Country | March 10, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #Brain Health #dementia #elder care

Social capital is associated with better health, lower risks for dementia, disability, and mortality. In the vast majority of cases Alzheimer's disease is not inherited. The most important risk factor for Alzheimer's disease is age. In this presentation, Blythe Winchester ...

Date added: 03/10/22

Past Presentation

Geriatric Trauma (Part 1) | March 9, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #ed #emergency #geriatric #trauma

In this presentation, Dr. Naomi George, MD, MPH, reviews the approach to geriatric trauma assessment, examines ways to identify and manage anatomic and physiologic considerations in geriatric trauma, and discusses how to develop an approach to decision-making and discharge planning ...

Date added: 03/8/22

Past Presentation

NW Elders ECHO | March 8, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Elders, Knowledge Holders and Culture Keepers

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

The Northwest Elders and Knowledge Keepers ECHO session took place on March 8th, 2022. Participants were introduced to and received a presentation from each of our faculty panel members, including Jesse Beers (Siuslaw/Lower Umpqua), Melissa Bennett (Umatilla/Nimiipuu/Sac & Fox/Anishinaabe), Dr. ...

Date added: 03/8/22

Past Presentation

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians – Harm Reduction Program | March 1, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction

In this session, Ginger Southards, RN, led a discussion about Harm Reduction at Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

Date added: 03/7/22

Past Presentation

Understanding Violence, Indigenous Trauma Care, and Resilience in Tribal Communities | March 4th, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #Community healing #Culture as prevention #resilience #trauma

In this series of presentations, Alison Whitemore, Danica Brown, and Kaylee Trottier provide an introduction to research on violence and trauma as it relates to AI/AN people and tribal communities, including violence and trauma types, brain science, developmental and behavioral ...

Date added: 03/4/22

Past Presentation

Debrief and Discussion : Addressing the Opioid Crisis in Indian Country | March 3rd, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #Community healing #Culture as prevention #FAQ #opioid

In today's session faculty and participants discuss follow up questions around the recent training on "Addressing the Opioid Crisis in Indian Country". Topics include how to support peer workers, ways to promote healing in your community, and the importance of ...

Date added: 03/3/22

Website

National Center on Elder Abuse

Type: Website

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #elder abuse #justice

The NCEA provides the latest information regarding research, training, best practices, news and resources on elder abuse, neglect and exploitation to professionals and the public. First established by the U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA) in 1988 as a national elder ...

Date added: 03/2/22

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Specialty Kits Assembly Binder

Type: Download

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #equipment checklist #trauma care #trauma prep

Assembly instruction/checklists for specialty kits in trauma care.

Date added: 03/2/22

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Trauma Room Checklist

Type: Download

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #equipment checklist #trauma care #trauma prep

Equipment checklist for trauma rooms.

Date added: 03/2/22

	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