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Training

Ending the Syndemic – Syphilis and HIV | December 2, 2025

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #disease #elimination #epidemic #hcv #hiv #sti #SUD #syndemic #syphilis

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, introduces the rationale, program design, leadership policies, and tools that may successfully be used by healthcare providers and tribal decision makers to develop and enhance programs to address the syndemic of interrelated disease states ...

Date added: 10/16/25

Past Presentation

HIV PrEP, STI Post Exposure Prophylaxis | September 17, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #doxy #hiv #pep #post-exposure prophylaxis #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep

In this presentation, Andrew Yu, MS, BSN, RN, ACRN, reviews best practices for implementing HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). Then, Andrew discusses Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (DoxyPEP) services and how to engage with populations that can benefit from HIV/STI prevention.

Date added: 08/19/25

Past Presentation

Expanding HCV/HIV/Syphilis POC Testing | July 17, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #avian #covid #hcv #hiv prep #infectious diseases #influenza #measles #syphilis

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, provides an overall infectious disease clinical update focusing on COVID-19, avian influenza, measles, and HIV PrEP. Then, Dr. Jorge Mera, MD, reviews innovative strategies and tools to expand HCV, HIV, and syphilis ...

Date added: 07/10/25

Past Presentation

Expanding HCV/HIV/Syphilis POC Testing Outside the Cherokee Nation Health Services | April 23, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv #hiv #poc #syphilis #test #treat

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, MD, reviews innovative strategies and tools to expand HCV, HIV, and syphilis point-of-care-testing outside of the typical clinic setting.

Date added: 04/21/25

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

Training

HIV PrEP and PEP 101 | January 16, 2025

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #hiv #pep #post-exposure prophylaxis #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, Indian Country ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases at Cherokee Nation, discusses HIV PrEP, the evidence on effectiveness, monitoring, and best practices. Then, Dr. Mera shares the latest recommendations for Post-exposure Prophylaxis ...

Date added: 01/16/25

Past Presentation

HCV and HIV: CHRs Save Lives | January 13, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Community Health Representative (CHR)

Keywords: #chr #chw #hcv #hiv

In this presentation Brigg Reilley, Epidemiologist, and Andrew Yu, MS, RN, ACRN, National HIV/HCV/STI Clinical Coordinator at Indian Health Service Headquarters provide a broad overview of HIV and Hepatitis C, the ways they are transmitted, prevented and treated. Brigg and ...

Date added: 12/17/24

Past Presentation

Training

HIV Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Basics | September 24, 2024

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #hiv #hiv treatment #id #primary care #virus

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS and seasoned physician at Gallup Indian Medical Center, offers advice on screening patients for HIV, having critical conversations, and establishing swift care in primary ...

Date added: 09/17/24

Past Presentation

HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in Indigenous Communities | April 18, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #hiv #pep #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep

In this series of presentations, Leslie Stewart, MD, Infectious Diseases physician at the IHS Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility, LT Jade-Ngoc Brookfield, PharmD, clinical pharmacist at Gallup Indian Medical Center and Rydell J. Curley, HIV Health Technician in the Public ...

Date added: 04/9/24

Past Presentation

Training

Providing PrEP, PEP and HIV Care | March 13, 2024

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #hiv #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep

In this presentation, Whitney Essex, MSN, FNP-BC, ECHO faculty member and Family Nurse Practitioner formerly with Infectious Diseases at Cherokee Nation Health Services, discusses HIV PrEP, the evidence on effectiveness, monitoring, and best practices. Then, Whitney shares the latest recommendations ...

Date added: 02/15/24

	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