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Past Presentation

Caring for Survivors of Human Trafficking | June 7, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS ECHO Program

Keywords: #human trafficking #MMIP #MMIW

In this training, the Human Trafficking Capacity Building Center and Heal Trafficking organizations discuss a comprehensive project with the Indian Health Service and tribal healthcare organizations to help build capacity to identify and serve human trafficking victims in a healthcare ...

Date added: 06/13/23

Past Presentation

Managing Methamphetamine Use in the ED | May 24, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS ECHO Program

Keywords: #disorder #ed #emergency #meth #stimulant #SUD #use

In this presentation, Dr. Erik Anderson, MD, describes the burden and complexity of clinical care in the ED related to methamphetamine use disorder. Furthermore, Dr. Anderson reviews strategies to manage complications, including agitation and psychosis, and how best to integrate treatment ...

Date added: 05/19/23

Past Presentation

Use of Thrombolytics with STEMI | April 26, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS ECHO Program

Keywords: #emergency department #stemi #thrombolytics

In this session, Dr. Dan Schnorr, EM Medical Director at San Carlos Apache Healthcare in Arizona, and Dr. Randall Ellis, EM physician at San Carlos Apache Healthcare and member of the IHS EM Chief Clinical Consultant Core Group, lead a discussion ...

Date added: 04/24/23

Past Presentation

Human Trafficking – Screening and Response in the Emergency Department Setting | March 22, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS ECHO Program

Keywords: #emergency department #human trafficking #MMIP #MMIW

In this session, Dr. Emily Bartlett, Emergency Medicine Physician at Gallup Indian Medical Center and Dr. Jeanie Ringelberg, Director of the Emergency Department at the Northern Navajo Medical Center, lead a discussion with experts Dr. Hanni Stoklosa, Katie Papke, and Elizabeth Lang focused ...

Date added: 03/20/23

Past Presentation

Health Impacts of Climate Change: Implications for Emergency Departments in Rural and Indigenous Communities | April 17, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS ECHO Program

Keywords: #climate change #ed #health impacts

In this session, a panel of interprofessional faculty provide ED teams an update on the ever-increasing impacts of climate change on human health and our communities, share stories of how it is impacting ED care, how we can address the ...

Date added: 02/21/23

Past Presentation

The Laboring Patient: Evaluation, Disposition, and Complications | February 22, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS ECHO Program

Keywords: #Bronchiolitis #ed #pediatric #respiratory illness

In this session, Dr. Dominick Maggio, Emergency Department Director at IHS Whiteriver Service Unit and Dr. Michael Henry, EM Physician and Clinical Quality Advisor at IHS Colorado River Service Unit, lead a discussion with UCSF HEAL Fellow Dr. Kelly Bogaert, ...

Date added: 02/16/23

Past Presentation

Boarding the Bronchiolitis Patient – Bringing Inpatient Pediatric Care to the Emergency Department | January 25, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS ECHO Program

Keywords: #Bronchiolitis #ed #pediatric #respiratory illness

In this session, a panel of interprofessional faculty discuss the national increase in Emergency Department boarding times, when to escalate care for the bronchiolitis patient in the ED, and how to approaching longitudinal care of the bronchiolitis patient in the ...

Date added: 01/17/23

Past Presentation

New CMS 2023 guidelines for Emergency Medicine | December 19, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS ECHO Program

Keywords: #cms #ed #guidelines

In this session, a panel of interprofessional faculty discuss clinical documentation changes required to meet CMS 2023 guidelines for Emergency Medicine Evaluation and Management (E/M) documentation and coding. The 1-hour telehealth session offered clinicians an opportunity to ask questions, receive ...

Date added: 11/28/22

Past Presentation

Severe Pediatric Respiratory Illnesses in the ED | December 12, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS ECHO Program

Keywords: #ed #pediatric #respiratory illness

In this session, a panel of interprofessional faculty discuss assessment tools, intubation principles, post-intubation vent management, transferring, home O2 pathways, observation in the ED and examples of drills to practice and optimize preparations for pediatric patients with severe respiratory illnesses.

Date added: 11/21/22

Past Presentation

Providing Culturally Safe Care in the ED: An Example from Australia | October 26, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS ECHO Program

Keywords: #aboriginal #cultural #ed #emergency #first nation #indigenous #safety #torres

In this presentation, staff from St. Vincent's Public Hospital in Melbourne present on Indigenous Australians, cultural safety, and current emergency department initiatives to better address the health care of First Nations people.

Date added: 10/26/22

	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