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Cultural Responsiveness: An Introduction for Peer Professionals | April 4, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder ECHO Program

Keywords: #addiction #cultural responsiveness #Peer #substance #SUD

In this presentation, Debra BuffaloBoy (Standing Rock Lakota Nation), CACD II, PWS, PSS, CRM, provides an overview of historical perspectives of culture responsiveness, explores boundaries of cultural responsiveness, addresses ways to embody cultural responsiveness in our work, and steps to ...

Date added: 04/4/24

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Recovery Capital: Assets, Not Abstinence

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Substance Use Disorder ECHO Program

Keywords: #peer recovery #Recovery #recovery capital

SAMHSA defines recovery as "A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential". In this presentation Alex Elswick discusses long term recovery and the overlap of ...

Date added: 01/4/24

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Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Pregnancy

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Substance Use Disorder ECHO Program

Keywords: #maternal substance use disorders #pharmacotherapy #substance use disorder

Dr. Katie Casper and Dr. Michelle Debbink highlight best practices for initiating SUD treatment for people who are pregnant, including how to provide integrative prenatal care treatment, identify candidates for and initiate outpatient buprenorphine protocols, manage medications for opioid use ...

Date added: 11/2/23

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Low Dose Buprenorphine Induction | August 3 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder ECHO Program

Keywords: #buprenorphine #low dose induction #OUD #patient centered care #pharmacotherapy #substance use disorder #SUD

In this presentation, Dr. Jonathan Robbins, MD, defines buprenorphine microdosing and several protocols for microinduction. Additionally, case studies from both inpatient and outpatient settings are reviewed as well as guidelines for implementation of microinduction in the outpatient setting.

Date added: 08/3/23

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Indigenous Trauma and SUD Care – Trickster Spirits | July 6 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Substance Use Disorder ECHO Program

Keywords: #cultural #indigenous #stories #tales #trauma #trickster

In this presentation, Dr. Danica Love Brown, ECHO faculty member and Behavioral Health Director at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, discusses indigenous trauma, Trickster Spirits, and other cultural considerations in addressing substance use disorders.

Date added: 07/6/23

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Best Practice Prenatal and Postpartum Care for People Experiencing SUDs | August 15, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Grand Rounds Substance Use Disorder ECHO Program

Keywords: #grand rounds #parents #pregnancy #pregnant #substance use disorder #SUD #SUD treatment

Indian Country ECHO in partnership with the IHS Maternal Child Health Program and HOPE Committee, hosted a Grand Rounds focused on best practice prenatal and postpartum care for American Indian and Alaska Native people experiencing substance use disorders (SUDs). In ...

Date added: 06/1/23

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Heart Plus: A Novel CoManagement Clinic for Patients with Stimulant- Associated Cardiomyopathy | June 1st 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Substance Use Disorder ECHO Program

Keywords: #cardiomyopathy #contingency management #methamphetamine #Methamphetamine Use Disorder #stimulant

In this presentation, Dr. Jonathan Davis, Director of San Francisco Health Network, Heart Failure Program, provides a brief overview of cardiac considerations. Dr. Davis discusses the cardiac fallouts related to stimulant misuse, clinical pearls, and the structure and practices of ...

Date added: 06/1/23

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Primary Care Integration Model | May 25, 2023

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program Advancing Pharmacist Roles in Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Teams ECHO Program Substance Use Disorder ECHO Program

Keywords: #addiction #integration #opioid #OUD #pcp #primary care #substance #SUD

In this presentation, Dr. James Morrill, MD, PhD, Michele Allen, RN, and Ryan O'Brien, Peer Recovery Coach, provide an overview of the Charlestown Healthcare Center primary care integration model as it relates to managing and treating substance use disorders as ...

Date added: 05/15/23

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Training

Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone | May 25, 2023

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program Advancing Pharmacist Roles in Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Teams ECHO Program Substance Use Disorder ECHO Program

Keywords: #addiction #harm reduction #inject #injection #pcp #primary care #risk

In this presentation, Dr. Carolina Abuelo, MD, MSc, shares her personal story and key pearls as they relate to managing substance use disorders as a chronic disease. Dr. Abuelo discusses the reluctance to practice addiction medicine, the principles of harm ...

Date added: 05/15/23

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Management of SUDs: Clinical Application & Key Pearls | May 25, 2023

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program Advancing Pharmacist Roles in Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Teams ECHO Program Substance Use Disorder ECHO Program

Keywords: #buprenorphine #chronic #harm reduction #opioid #OUD #patient-centered #pcp #primary care #suboxone #SUD #use disorder

In this presentation, Dr. Wei Sum Li, MD, provides an extensive, provider-focused overview of the management of substance use disorders as a chronic disease in the primary care setting. Dr. Li discusses the clinical importance of accurate patient-centered language and ...

Date added: 05/15/23

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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