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Liver Fibrosis Staging | Cherokee Nation Health Services HCV Elimination Program | March 28, 2018

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #fibrosis staging #hcv elimination #liver disease #liver fibrosis

In the first set of slides, Dr. Paulina Deming, Associate Professor of Pharmacy at the University of New Mexico Sciences Center, describes the stages of hepatitis C related liver disease and identifies non-invasive liver fibrosis staging methods. In the second ...

Date added: 03/28/18

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Cherokee Nation Health Services HCV Elimination Program | March 13, 2018

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv elimination

Dr. Jorge Mera provides an overview of the HCV Elimination Program at Cherokee Nation.

Date added: 03/13/18

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The Language of Addiction | HCV Epidemiology | February 28, 2018

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv epidemiology #non-stigmatizing language #words matter

In these slides, Dr. Karla Thornton, Professor of Infectious Diseases at the UNM Health Sciences Center, discusses the importance of using non-stigmatizing language when talking about substance use disorders. Dr. Thornton also provides an overview of language that has been ...

Date added: 02/28/18

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Home Outreach for HCV Care | January 24, 2018

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv treatment #home outreach #home visits

Dr. Kimberly Suk, an Internal Medicine Specialist at Gallup Indian Medical Center, shares the steps taken at Gallup to create a home outreach HCV program. Dr. Suk also discusses program outcomes and proposed plans for the program.

Date added: 01/24/18

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Starting a HCV Program – Belcourt | December 14, 2017

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #managing complex care #starting an hcv program

LCDR Jonathan Owen and LT Neelam Gazarian, Pharmacists with the Indian Health Service, share the tools used to manage complex care and start an HCV program in the area of Belcourt, North Dakota.

Date added: 12/14/17

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Accessing Meds, State of Medicaid and Patient Management Tools | November 22, 2017

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #medicaid #medication access #patient management tools

LCDR Jonathan Owen and LT Neelam Gazarian, Pharmacists with the Indian Health Service, discuss the challenges of accessing medications through medicaid and how providers can assist, and share some valuable patient management tools for HCV clinics.

Date added: 11/22/17

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Interview Project with People Who Inject Drugs, Community and Health Care Staff to Explore Community-Driven Education, Prevention and Healthcare Systems Improvement | October 25, 2017

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #community health #injection drugs #prevention

These slides describe the results of an interview project with people who inject drugs, their community and healthcare staff. They describe the rationale for treating HCV in people who inject drugs and identify the best treatment practices. They also discuss ...

Date added: 10/25/17

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HCV Treatment in Injection Drug Users | September 27, 2017

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv treatment #injection drugs

In these slides, Dr. Jacob Kesner, an Infectious Diseases Pharmacist at Lovelace Medical Center, discusses the relationship between HCV and people who inject drugs. He then describes the rationale for treating in HCV in people who inject drugs and identifies ...

Date added: 09/27/17

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Syringe Services and HCV Treatment at Lummi Tribal Health Center | August 23, 2017

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv treatment #lummi #syringe services

Jessica Rienstra, Hepatitis C Project Coordinator at Lummi Tribal Health Center (LTHC), provides an overview of the syringe services and HCV treatment program at LTHC.

Date added: 08/23/17

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Hepatitis C Screening and Assessment | July 26, 2017

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv screening

CAPT Stephen Rudd, Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director of the Portland Area Indian Health Service, provides an overview of HCV screening and assessment procedures, risk factors, and tools.

Date added: 07/26/17

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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