Ending the Syndemic Clinical Training - August 2026

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Staff serving Alaska Native & American Indian people are invited to participate in the Ending the Syndemic ECHO program. The program provides comprehensive information to effectively address the evolving HCV, SUD, HIV, and Syphilis syndemic. The program offers a free 2-day training with both a Clinical Track, a Community Health Professionals Track & subsequent telehealth clinics.

The Indigenous Syndemic Pathway for Clinicians track will provide an overview and present implementation options, and where requested, assist with implementation. The training is not only informational—technical and other support needed to put policy and practice into place is available and encouraged. Continuing Education will be provided. To view the draft agenda, click here.

The Indigenous Syndemic Pathway for Community Health Professionals (CHPs) track is designed to equip CHPs with the knowledge, confidence, and tools to respond to syndemic topics that can be hard to talk about with relatives. These sessions will cover individual diseases and broader topics. Many of these presentations will include group discussion and interaction. This track is focused to provide training for Community Health Representatives, Health Aides, Peer Navigators, Social Workers, and Case Managers. A draft agenda will be available soon.

Dates: August 11th (8am-5pm PT) and August 12th (8am-4:30pm PT)

Where: Hosted by the Southern Plains Tribal Health Board in Oklahoma (Exact Venue TBD) & Virtually via Zoom

How to Join: Click here to register

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Presentations

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Ending the Syndemic at Your Tribe or Facility

Introduction to Peer Mentors

Indigenous Trauma and SUD Care

Providing Substance Use Disorder Services in Primary Care

Evaluation of Infectious Diseases in People With Substance Use Disorders

Starting a Low-Barrier Harm Reduction Program

Integrated Treatment: The didgʷálič Model for Addressing the Opioid Crisis in Indian Country

Syphilis Response: Best Practices in Indian Country

Providing PrEP and PEP Services at your Clinic

Hepatitis C 101

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Ending the Syndemic for Youth and Adolescents

Starting an Effective Model to End the Syndemic at the Squaxin Island Tribe

Resources

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The Indigenous HIV/AIDS Syndemic Strategy

Weaving Together the National HIV, STI, and Viral Hepatitis Plans One of Indigenous peoples’ strengths is our ability to understand our interdependence – with each other, the land, generations past, …

Advancing Pharmacist Roles in Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Teams

The Advancing Pharmacist Roles in Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Teams ECHO Program is designed to equip pharmacists, pharmacy staff, and other healthcare professionals with the necessary tools to …

Hepatitis C

The Hepatitis C ECHO Programs are designed to enhance clinicians ability to screen, treat and manage patients with hepatitis C through didactic and case presentations, recommendations from peers and a …

Private: HIV

The HIV ECHO is designed to help providers increase their knowledge and skills to effectively treat and prevent HIV in primary care settings. […] Read More… from Ending the Syndemic …

Infectious Disease

Each month, ECHO offers an ECHO session with infectious disease experts focusing on the latest emerging topics, including the screening, management and treatment of patients with infectious diseases. The 1-hour …

Peer Recovery

The Peer Recovery ECHO Program is designed to educate peer specialists in the management and care of patients with substance use disorders. This program offers Office Hours ECHO sessions where …

Substance Use Disorder

The Substance Use Disorder ECHO Program is designed to enhance I/T/U clinicians’ ability to provide care to patients with SUD through offering didactic and case presentations, as well as information …

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	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