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COVID-19 Clinical Update | February 15, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #covid #covid clinical updates #covid treatment #infants #maternal #Screening #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, emerging variants, the latest NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines, the evidence for early ...

Date added: 02/14/23

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COVID-19 Clinical Update | January 18, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology ECHO Program

Keywords: #covid #covid clinical updates #covid treatment #Screening #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, screening, vaccination, variants, treatment, post covid management, and use of steroids.

Date added: 01/18/23

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COVID-19 Clinical Update | November 16, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology ECHO Program

Keywords: #covid #covid clinical updates #covid treatment #influenza #monkeypox

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, and Whitney Essex, FNP, ECHO Faculty Member & Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation, answer questions from previous ECHO sessions, and discuss ...

Date added: 11/16/22

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How to Use a Trauma-Informed Approach in Vaccine Discussions

Type: Video

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology ECHO Program Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #covid vaccines #trauma-informed care #vaccine confidence

The Washington state Department of Health developed a playlist of eight short videos to advance understanding of the importance of using a trauma informed approach in COVID-19 vaccine conversations. The videos provide guidance and tools for health care and public ...

Date added: 11/7/22

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Provider Discussion Guides: Building Confidence in the COVID-19 Vaccines (WA DOH)

Type: Website

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology ECHO Program Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #vaccine confidence

Date added: 11/7/22

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Handouts

Native Boost: Parents’ Guide to Children’s Vaccines

Type: Handouts

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Virology ECHO Program Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #vaccination

This guide, adapted from the Boost Oregon Parent Guide, is designed to help American Indian and Alaska Native parents understand more about vaccination and combat vaccine misinformation. Learn more at Native Boost.

Date added: 11/7/22

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Native Boost: A Medical Provider’s Guide

Type: Handouts

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology ECHO Program Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #vaccination

This guide, adapted from the Boost Oregon Provider's Guide, is designed to assist medical providers in boosting vaccine confidence in American Indian and Alaska Native parents and families. Learn more at Native Boost.

Date added: 11/7/22

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COVID-19 Clinical Update | October 19, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology ECHO Program

Keywords: #covid #covid clinical updates #covid treatment #influenza #monkeypox

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, discusses the latest COVID-19, Monkeypox and Influenza clinical updates, including COVID-19 epidemiology, variants, PASC, vaccine protection, Evusheld, and treatment updates.

Date added: 10/19/22

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COVID-19 Clinical Update | September 21, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology ECHO Program

Keywords: #covid #covid clinical updates #covid treatment #monkeypox

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, discusses the latest COVID-19 and Monkeypox clinical updates, including HIV and STIs among persons with Monkeypox, CDC recommendations, epidemiology, common questions, viral ...

Date added: 09/21/22

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COVID-19 Clinical Update | August 17, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology ECHO Program

Keywords: #covid #covid clinical updates #covid treatment

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, discusses the latest COVID-19 clinical updates, CDC recommendations, epidemiology, variants, treatments and vaccine updates.

Date added: 08/17/22

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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