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HIV Presentations

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Introduction to HIV PrEP | November 5, 2021 In this presentation, Michelle Iandiorio, MD, ECHO faculty member and clinical director for SCAETC and associate professor for UNMHSC, provides an introduction to PrEP, describes the various HIV prevention methods, differentiates HIV PEP from HIV ...

Date added: 05/12/22

Past Presentation

Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country: HIV and STIs | May 3rd, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #chlamydia #gonorrhea #hiv #std #sti #syphilis

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, a primary care approach to Eliminating HIV in Indian Country. Then, Dr. Melanie Taylor, Medical Epidemiologist for the CDC and Captain with the United ...

Date added: 05/3/22

Past Presentation

HIV 101 | May 19, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #covid-19 #hiv #id #virus

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director, provides a clinical update on emerging COVID-19 topics. Then, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, presents on HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).

Date added: 04/22/22

Past Presentation

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV Prevention: A Highly Effective Biomedical Option | February 23, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: General Session

Keywords: #hiv #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep

In this series of presentations focused on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV Prevention, Dawn K. Smith, MD, MS, MPH, and Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH cover the evidence on effectiveness, monitoring, and best practices, including remote provision of PrEP care services. Then, CAPT ...

Date added: 02/21/22

Past Presentation

Introduction to HIV PrEP | November 5, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis)

Keywords: #hiv #pep #prep

In this presentation, Michelle Iandiorio, MD, ECHO faculty member and clinical director for SCAETC and associate professor for UNMHSC, provides an introduction to PrEP, describes the various HIV prevention methods, differentiates HIV PEP from HIV PrEP, reviews potential adverse drug events from HIV PEP ...

Date added: 09/16/21

Past Presentation

Introduction to HIV PrEP | April 23, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis)

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

Date added: 04/23/21

Past Presentation

HIV | April 22, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Community Health Representative (CHR)

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

Did you know: That advances in treatment mean that HIV can be treated like a chronic disease? That there's a one-pill-a-day medication that's more than 99% effective in preventing sexual transmission of HIV? That people living with HIV who achieve ...

Date added: 04/22/21

Past Presentation

Clinical Pharmacy Resources for Syndemic Services | January 20, 2026

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #clinical #pharmacy #resources #services #syndemic

In this presentation, Dr. Bethany Johnson, PharmD, BCIDP and CAPT Holly Van Lew, PharmD, BCPS, AAHIVP, provide an overview of clinical pharmacy resources supporting syndemic services, highlighting developed tools, professional advocacy efforts, and the role of pharmacy in delivering coordinated, ...

Date added: 01/12/26

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

Fungal Frontiers: Navigating Implantation Mycoses and Vulvovaginal Candidiasis | October 16, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #avian #covid #fungal #hiv prep #implantation mycoses #infectious diseases #influenza #measles #vulvovaginal candidiasis

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jon Iralu, provides an overall infectious disease clinical update focusing on COVID-19, avian influenza, measles, and HIV PrEP. Then, Dr. Dallas Smith reviews the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of Implantation Mycoses and Vulvovaginal Candidiasis through ...

Date added: 10/16/25

	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