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Past Presentation

Indigenous Harm Reduction | Eastern Band Cherokee’s SSP | Red Lake IHS Harm Reduction Services | May 11, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #community education #Eastern Band Cherokee #naloxone #Red Lake #syringe services

In this series of presentations, Annette Hubbard, BHA, shares an overview and importance of doing harm reduction work in tribal communities. Then, Vickie Bradley, MPH, BSN, RN, tells the story of how the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians began their syringe service ...

Date added: 05/11/21

Past Presentation

CDC Aerosol Updates | COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines | Post COVID Care | May 10, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #aerosol transmission #covid clinical updates #treatment guidelines

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, shares valuable COVID-19 clinical updates, with a focus on recent CDC changes around aerosol transmission, the latest treatment guidelines, and post COVID-19 care.

Date added: 05/10/21

Past Presentation

Indications and Contraindications to PrEP | May 7, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis)

Keywords: #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep

In this presentation, Whitney Essex, MSN, FNP-BC, ECHO faculty member and Family Nurse Practitioner with Infectious Diseases at Cherokee Nation Health Services, discusses indications and contraindications for PrEP, review methods for obtaining a sexual history, and answers questions about who is a good ...

Date added: 05/7/21

Past Presentation

Clinical Update | Addressing the Mental Health Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic | May 6, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid and mental health #covid clinical updates #covid-19 vaccines

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, provides a clinical update on SARS-CoV-2 mutations, clinical presentation and treatment of COVID-19 and the latest vaccine updates. Then, Dr Christopher Palmer, Director of the Dept. ...

Date added: 05/6/21

Past Presentation

Sexually Transmitted Infections | May 6, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Community Health Representative (CHR)

Keywords: #std #sti

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are on the rise nationally, especially in Indian Country. Gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis and other STIs can have no symptoms, and cause long term health damage. Prevention, education, early screening and testing, partner notification, partner expedited therapy, ...

Date added: 05/6/21

Past Presentation

Fentanyl Testing | May 4, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction

Keywords: #fentanyl #fentanyl testing

In this series of presentations, Jude Leahy, MPH, shares an opportunity to share challenges, or successes your harm reduction program has or is facing, learn together from each others experiences and receive feedback from experts in the field through the new Harm Reduction ...

Date added: 05/4/21

Past Presentation

HCV and People Who Inject Drugs | HCV and SUD Treatment | May 4, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #didgwalic #hcv #injection drugs #mat

In this series of presentations, Jessica Gregg, MD, shares information on HCV in people who inject drugs, and medications used to treat opioid use disorder. Then, Melissa McFarland, MSN, FNP-BC, shares how the didgwálic Wellness Center, owned and operated by the Swinomish ...

Date added: 05/4/21

Past Presentation

Choosing to Start a Pharmacy-Led MOUD Program | May 4, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #MOUD #starting an MOUD program

In this presentation, CDR Kailee Fretland discusses the processes behind choosing to start and starting a pharmacy-led MOUD program within the IHS.

Date added: 05/4/21

Past Presentation

Public Health and CDC/FDA Updates | May 3, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #public health updates

In this series of presentations, Dr. Eileen M. Dunne, PhD, ECHO faculty member and Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the Idaho Division of Public Health, provides a public health practice update and a number ...

Date added: 05/3/21

Past Presentation

Update on Routine Childhood Immunizations | April 28, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #covid-19 vaccines #routine child immunizations

In this presentation, Dr Thomas Weiser, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist for the Portland Area Indian Health Service and Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, reviews childhood immunization rates, effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine pediatric and adolescent vaccine ordering ...

Date added: 04/28/21

	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