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Past Presentation

“Syncope – Do I go to a cath lab, a trauma center, or back to bed?” | December 18, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Keywords: #ems #loss of consciousness #prehospital care #syncope

In this presentation, Bart Grabman, MD focuses on the prehospital recognition and management of syncope. It reviews the core pathophysiology behind syncopal events and emphasizes practical field screening, including scene clues, patient history, and high-risk red flags. Providers will learn ...

Date added: 12/21/25

Past Presentation

Building a Bridge Clinic | December 16, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #bridge #bupe #buprenorphine #ed #emergency #er #mat #MOUD

In this presentation, Dr. Mega outlines how a Bridge Clinic can provide low-barrier, rapid-access follow-up for patients with substance use disorders (SUDs) after Emergency Department visits or inpatient stays. Dr. Mega describes why this model strengthens care systems and shares ...

Date added: 12/15/25

Past Presentation

Chest Pain in Pregnancy | December 15, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities (emRIC)

Keywords: #chest #ed #emergency #emric #er #ob #pain #pregnancy #pregnant

In this presentation, Dr. Guest will review the normal cardiovascular and respiratory changes of pregnancy and how they affect the presentation and assessment of chest pain in pregnant and postpartum patients. She will highlight key clinical features of pulmonary embolism, ...

Date added: 12/15/25

Past Presentation

Management of Acute Rib Fractures | December 10, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #ed #emergency #er #fracture #rib #trauma

In this presentation, Dr. Broecker provides a practical overview of current best practices for evaluating and managing acute rib fractures in trauma patients.

Date added: 12/12/25

Past Presentation

Resiliency | December 4, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #emotional regulation #radical acceptance #Recovery #resilience

In this presentation, Debra Buffalo Boy speaks on Resiliency and Radical Acceptance and how resiliency provides balance across mental, physical, social, and spiritual life. She reviews 8 key components of resiliency including self belief, optimism, purpose of direction, adaptability, ingenuity, ...

Date added: 12/5/25

Past Presentation

Vascular Malformation and Growths | December 16, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Dermatology

Keywords: #children #derm guidelines #dermatitis #dermatology #evaluation #growths #infants #management #tumors #vascular anomalies

In this presentation, Dr. Do reviews common vascular anomalies and tumors in infants and children, identifies red flags that warrant urgent referral, and discusses how to initiate appropriate first-line evaluation and management strategies in primary care settings, including when to ...

Date added: 12/4/25

Past Presentation

A Clinician’s Guide to OpenEvidence: A Free AI Powered Medical Information Platform | March 27, 2026

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: General Session

Keywords: #AI #artificial intelligence #streamlining

We invite you to join Indian Country ECHO for a clinically focused session on “Using OpenEvidence: a free AI powered platform for evidence-based medical decision support”. In this session, we’ll explore practical ways to integrate OpenEvidence into clinical care and ...

Date added: 12/4/25

Past Presentation

A Syphilis Patient Panel System that reduces loss to follow up and time-to-treatment: An integrated Clinical and Public Health Response | February 17, 2026

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: General Session

Keywords: #infectious disease #patient panel #sti #syphilis

We invite you to join Indian Country ECHO for a General Session focused on “A Syphilis Patient Panel System that reduces loss to follow up and time-to-treatment: An integrated Clinical and Public Health Response”. In this presentation Dr. James Cowan, ...

Date added: 12/4/25

Past Presentation

Screening for Infectious Diseases in the Phoenix Indian Medical Center Emergency Room: A High Impact Intervention | January 27, 2026

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: General Session

Keywords: #emergency department #hcv #hiv #infectious disease #sti

We invite you to join Indian Country ECHO for a General Session focused on Screening for Infectious Diseases in Phoenix Indian Medical Center Emergency Room: A High Impact Intervention. In this presentation Mary E. Coon, MD, Chief of Emergency Medicine ...

Date added: 12/4/25

Past Presentation

“I Have Chest Pain and Can’t Breathe” | December 2, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Keywords: #Chest pain #ems #shortness of breath

In this presentation, Dr. Mateo Garcia, discusses a list of differentials that may cause chest pain and shortness of breath, he also covers acute pertinent positives and negatives and also relevant history and physical assessment and lastly he discusses the ...

Date added: 12/3/25

	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