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Past Presentation

Monitoring the Patient While on PrEP/Addressing Complications | December 3, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis)

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

In this presentation, Jonathan Iralu, MD, FACP, Indian Health Service Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases, provides a detailed update on monitoring persons on PrEP, including recommended labs, clinical monitoring and STI/HIV testing recommendations.

Date added: 09/16/21

Past Presentation

Monitoring the Patient While on PrEP/Addressing Complications | June 4, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis)

Keywords: #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep #STI testing

Date added: 06/4/21

Past Presentation

Initiating PrEP | May 21, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis)

Keywords: #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep #prep initiation

In this presentation, Jorge Mera, MD, FACP, ECHO faculty member, infectious disease physician and director of Infectious Diseases at Cherokee Nation Health Services, shares valuable insights around clinical/laboratory evaluation prior to prescribing PrEP, rational for labs, interpretation of HIV and HBV serology, treatment ...

Date added: 05/21/21

Past Presentation

Clinical Updates | April 26, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #HIV and COVID-19

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 treatment, a guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19 as well as an indoor safety guideline ...

Date added: 04/26/21

Past Presentation

Hepatitis C | April 8, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Community Health Representative (CHR)

Keywords: #hcv #hcv testing #hcv treatment #hepatitis c

Like HIV, hepatitis C often has no symptoms until it appears as late stage liver cancer. New testing and treatments are greatly reducing deaths from this disease that affects millions of Americans. Find out how new treatments are simple, highly ...

Date added: 04/8/21

Past Presentation

Choosing to Provide PrEP | March 19, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: General Session

Keywords: #hiv #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep

In this series of presentations, ECHO faculty members Leslie Stewart, MD, Infectious Diseases physician for Chinle Hospital (Navajo Nation), and Heather Huentelman, Clinical Pharmacist at Phoenix Indian Medical Center will share an overview and their story of why they chose to ...

Date added: 03/19/21

Past Presentation

Overdose Prevention, Tracking and Response | November 3, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction

Keywords: #ODMAP #Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program #overdose response #overdose tracking

In this series of presentations, Heidi Lovejoy, shares a data overview of emergency department visits for overdose, psychological distress, and suicide during COVID-19 for American Indian and Alaska Native people. Then, Blue Valentine, Harm Reduction Peer Specialist at the End ...

Date added: 11/3/20

Past Presentation

Harm Reduction in Tribal Communities | May 5, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction

Keywords: #historical trauma #origins of harm reduction #syringe services #trauma #trauma-informed care

American Indian and Alaska Native people experience adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma at higher rates than the general population. This has serious implications for health throughout the lifespan. In this presentation, Dr. Danica Love Brown, Behavioral Health Manager at ...

Date added: 05/5/20

Past Presentation

COVID-19 Epi Update | Emerging Topics: Reinfection, Serological Tests, Forecasting | COVID-19 Updates | April 20, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #reinfection prevention

Online ECHO Clinic | April 20, 2020 Presentation Titles: COVID-19 Epi Update | Emerging Topics: Reinfection, Serological Tests, Forecasting | COVID-19 Updates In this series of three presentations, Dr. Tom Weiser shares an epi update. Then, Dr. Alex Wu, an ...

Date added: 04/20/20

Past Presentation

Let’s Talk About PrEP | November 21, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #HIV prevention #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep

Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Service, and Whitney Essex, Family Nurse Practitioner for Cherokee Nation Health Service, explain PrEP, the process in which an HIV-negative person who is at very high risk for acquiring ...

Date added: 11/21/19

	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