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Syphilis: A Harm Reduction Approach for CHRs | November 21, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Community Health Representative ECHO Program

Keywords: #harm reduction #infectious disease #sexual health #std #sti #syphilis

In this presentation, Jessica Leston, MPH, highlight best practices for responding to the rise of syphilis rates in Indigenous communities. Jessica provides a brief syphilis 101 followed by the epidemiology of syphilis as well as syphilis in pregnancy, best practices ...

Date added: 11/21/22

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Syphilis: A Harm Reduction Approach for CHRs | October 20, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Community Health Representative ECHO Program

Keywords: #harm reduction #infectious disease #sexual health #std #sti #syphilis

Date added: 10/20/22

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Responding to the Rising Rates of Syphilis in Indigenous Communities | October 26, 2022

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #infectious disease #sexual health #std presentation #sti #syphilis

In this presentation, Jessica Leston, MPH, and Dawn Benth, RN highlight best practices for responding to the rise of syphilis rates in Indigenous communities. Jessica and Dawn provide a brief syphilis 101 followed by the epidemiology of syphilis as well ...

Date added: 10/11/22

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Congenital Syphilis on the Rise: Preventable and Treatable in Indian Country | May 26, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #congenital syphilis #pregnancy #syphilis

In this presentation, Dr Eitan Bornstein highlights best practices for responding to the rise of congenital syphilis rates in Indigenous communities. Dr Bornstein provides a brief syphilis 101 followed by the epidemiology of syphilis as well as syphilis in pregnancy ...

Date added: 05/26/22

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Responding to the Rising Rates of Congenital Syphilis in Indigenous Communities | April 12, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Grand Rounds

Keywords: #congenital syphilis #grand rounds #infectious disease #sexual health #std presentation #sti #syphilis

Indian Country ECHO in partnership with the IHS National STD Program hosted a Grand Rounds focused on congenital syphilis. In this series of presentations, moderated by Dr Jean Howe, IHS Chief Clinical Consultant for Ob/Gyn, Dr Aliza Machefsky highlighted best ...

Date added: 04/10/22

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Syphilis in the ED: Why it Matters and What to Know | March 3, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology ECHO Program

Keywords: #covid-19 #emergency #std presentation #syphilis

We welcome you to join Indian Country ECHO for a special session focused on responding to the rise of syphilis rates in Indigenous communities. This session will cover syphilis’ reemergence and changing epidemiology, why Emergency Departments (EDs) are crucial players ...

Date added: 02/22/22

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Recognizing Syphilis and Responding to Outbreaks | February 17, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease ECHO Program

Keywords: #cdc #covid #covid-19 #id #infectious disease #outbreak #std presentation #syphilis

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, provides a clinical update on emerging COVID-19 topics. Then, Dr. Melanie Taylor, Medical Epidemiologist for the CDC and Captain with the United States Public ...

Date added: 02/15/22

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Responding to the Rising Rates of Syphilis in Indigenous Communities | October 12, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Grand Rounds

Keywords: #grand rounds #infectious disease #sexual health #std presentation #sti #syphilis

In this presentation, Dr Jorge Mera, MD, FACP, Indian Country ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services (CNHS), highlights best practices for responding to the rise of syphilis rates in Indigenous communities, and provides ...

Date added: 10/12/21

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Infectious Disease News | August 16, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology ECHO Program

Keywords: #covid #covid clinical updates #covid treatment #doxy pep #rsv #vaccine

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, discuss the latest COVID-19 clinical updates, including epi trends, national emerging variants, treatment and vaccine updates as well as the latest ...

Date added: 08/15/23

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HIV & STIs | June 23, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Community Health Representative ECHO Program

Keywords: #hiv #reproductive health #sexual health #sti

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 sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are on ...

Date added: 06/22/22

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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