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Past Presentation

Recognition and Management of Human Trafficking in Prehospital Care | March 20, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Keywords: #ems #human trafficking #prehospital assessment

In this presentation Dr. Michael DeFilippo, DO, covers the recognition and management of human trafficking in prehospital care. It defines human trafficking, outlines key components (act, means, purpose), and highlights high-risk populations such as immigrants, LGBTQ youth, and homeless individuals. ...

Date added: 03/21/25

Past Presentation

HIV-Associated Opportunistic Infections | March 20, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #hiv #infectious diseases #measles

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, provides an overall infectious disease clinical update focusing on measles. Then, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, MD, reviews the latest guidance for HIV-associated opportunistic infections, including pneumocystis pneumonia, microsporidiosis, cytomegalovirus colitis, cryptococcal meningitis, and ...

Date added: 03/20/25

Past Presentation

Evaluation of Chest Pain | March 17, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Cardiology

Keywords: #angina #cardiac #Chest pain #heart

In this presentation Dr. Leon Ptaszek, MD, PhD, provides an ECG review, discusses the causes of chest pain, describes how to utilize a risk factor-based strategy to evaluate chest pain, and reviews patients who require tertiary care.

Date added: 03/19/25

Past Presentation

Understanding Forensic Healthcare During Sexual Assault Awareness Month | April 22, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Pregnancy Care and Access

Keywords: #forensic #healthcare #pregnancy #sexual assault #victimization

In this presentation, Nicole Stahlmann, MN, RN, SANE-A, AFN-BC, SANE-P, FNE-A/P, and Lenora Burbank, MSN, RN, share an overview of Forensic Healthcare (FHC), the statistics behind the sexual assault crisis, how to differentiate between types of victimization, the economic burden ...

Date added: 03/18/25

Past Presentation

Status of Maternal Cardiovascular Health in American Indian and Alaska Native Individuals: An update on the scientific statement from the American Heart Association | March 25, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Pregnancy Care and Access

Keywords: #American heart association #cardiovascular #heart #maternal #pregnancy

The cardiovascular health of American Indian/Alaska Native pregnancy capable individuals is affected by a multitude of factors such as structural and institutional racism, ACEs, unresolved grief, and early-onset depression, which likely lead to the documented issues of worse maternal outcomes ...

Date added: 03/18/25

Past Presentation

The Month in Virology Clinical Update | March 19, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #avian #covid #dengue #first line app #hepatitis A #influenza #measles #virology #virus

In this series of presentations, Dr. Harry Brown, ECHO faculty member and Medical Epidemiologist for the United South and Eastern Tribes Tribal Epidemiology Center, provides an update on measles immunization. Then, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of ...

Date added: 03/16/25

Past Presentation

Decision-Making Capacity and Consent for Persons Living with Dementia | March 13, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia

Keywords: #aging #capacity #dementia #elder care #informed consent

In this presentation, Dr. Adi Shafir MD discusses how to define capacity and learn how to perform a clinical capacity assessment, how to recognize how dementia can impact capacity over time and how to distinguish steps of surrogate decision making.

Date added: 03/13/25

Past Presentation

Lip/Perioral Dermatitis | March 18, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Dermatology

Keywords: #derm #dermatitis #dermatology #lip #perioral

In this session, Dr. May Do, MD, lead faculty for the Dermatology Program and fourth-year dermatology resident at the University of Pennsylvania, reviews the clinical manifestation, evaluation, and treatment for common lip/perioral dermatitis.

Date added: 03/13/25

Past Presentation

Cannabis Use Disorder | March 18, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #cannabis #CUD #disorder #marijuana #substance #THC #use

In this presentation, Dr. James Gasper, PharmD, BCPP, explores the impact of the evolving cannabis landscape in the U.S. Furthermore, Dr. Gasper reviews cannabis pharmacology and pharmacotherapy, and current recommendations related to maintenance treatment of Cannabis Use Disorder.

Date added: 03/10/25

Past Presentation

Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) for Trauma Patients | March 12, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #care #healing #IHS #informed #native #tic #trauma #tribal #trust

In this presentation, Dr. Justine Broecker, MD, explores the principles of trauma-informed care (TIC) and its vital role in providing effective and compassionate care, particularly for Native and trauma-affected patients. Furthermore, Dr. Broecker defines trauma-informed care (TIC), explains its importance ...

Date added: 03/10/25

	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