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COVID-19 and Diabetes | March 26, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #covid-19 #covid-19 related diabetes

Dr. Mary Carol Greenlee, practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology in Grand Junction, Colorado, discusses the risks of COVID-19 infection for patients with diabetes (2:42), how patients can reduce their risk of infection (7:49), and how to prepare them for quarantine ...

Date added: 03/26/20

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The Gut Microbiome | February 13, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes ECHO Program

Keywords: #bacteria #gut microbiome

Our gut bacteria are blamed for many health problems, including weight gain and diabetes. Dr. Mary Carol Greenlee, a private practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology, examines how managing the gut microbiome might impact diabetes treatment.

Date added: 02/13/20

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Diabetes Management in Patients with Renal Disease | January 9, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes ECHO Program

Keywords: #diabetes management #kidney disease #renal disease

Dr. Mary Carol Greenlee, a private practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology in Grand Junction, Colorado, offers evidence-based suggestions for managing diabetes in patients with end-stage kidney disease.

Date added: 01/9/20

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Structured Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose | June 13, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes ECHO Program

Keywords: #glucose #glucose self-monitoring

Dr. Mary Carol Greenlee, a private practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology in Grand Junction, Colorado, presents on the efficacy and potential benefits of self-monitoring of blood glucose.

Date added: 06/13/19

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Helping with Diabetes: Avoiding Harm | May 2, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes ECHO Program

Keywords: #glucotoxicity #uncontrolled diabetes

In this presentation, Dr. Mary Carol Greenlee, practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology in Grand Junction, Colorado, shares information about several harmful effects of uncontrolled diabetes, how to avoid these harmful effects, as well as strategies to support patients in reducing ...

Date added: 05/2/19

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Interdisciplinary Care at Shoshone-Bannock | September 13, 2018

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes ECHO Program

Keywords: #interdisciplinary care #shoshone-bannock

A brief overview of healthcare services offered at the Shoshone-Bannock Fort Hall IHS facility and the Shoshone-Bannock Department of Tribal Health and Human Services, as well as the design and impact of a quality improvement study conducted by the Tribe.

Date added: 09/13/18

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Diabetic Retinopathy and Neuropathy: 2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines | August 9, 2018

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes ECHO Program

Keywords: #clinical practice guidlines #diabetic neuropathy #diabetic retinopathy

In this presentation, Dr. Richard Arakaki, professor at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, shares information about 2018 clinical practice guidelines for diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy.

Date added: 08/9/18

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Prevention of Macrovascular Complications of Diabetes | July 12, 2018

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes ECHO Program

Keywords: #macrovascular complications #risk reduction

Dr. Matthew Bouchonville, Assistant Professor at the Department of Endocrinology at the University of New Mexico, shares information about risk factors for macrovascular complications associated with diabetes. Dr. Bouchonville also offers insight into the promising outcomes associated with multifactorial risk ...

Date added: 07/12/18

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Pediatric Diabetes: Diagnosis and Management Approaches | June 14, 2018

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes ECHO Program

Keywords: #diabetes diagnosis #diabetes management #pediatric diabetes

Dr. Nicolas Cuttriss, Director of Project ECHO Diabetes at Stanford University, discusses how to recognize symptoms and diagnose diabetes in youth, how to understand the role and indications for use of insulin in type 2 diabetes, as well as the ...

Date added: 06/14/18

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Project ECHO: Moving Knowledge Instead of Patients and Providers | May 10, 2018

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes ECHO Program

Keywords: #project echo overview

This presentation emphasizes the urgent need in AI/AN communities to enhance diabetes care. It also describes ways in which Project ECHO can serve Indian Country in this capacity.

Date added: 05/10/18

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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