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HCV and People Who Inject Drugs | May 27, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #Antagonist Treatment #injection drugs #Methamphetamine Use Disorder #Mirtazapine #opioid use disorder

Dr. Jessica Gregg, Associate Professor of Medicine at OHSU, shares information on HCV in people who inject drugs, and medications used to treat opioid use disorder.

Date added: 05/27/20

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COVID-19 Infection and the Liver | April 14, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #covid and the liver #liver disease

Dr. Brian McMahon, Director of the Liver Disease and Hepatitis Program at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, talks about the differences in the underlying structure and pathogenicity of the different strains of coronavirus, how COVID-19 can involve the liver, ...

Date added: 04/14/20

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COVID-19 | March 25, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #covid-19

Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Service, and Whitney Essex, Family Nurse Practitioner for Cherokee Nation Health Service, provide an overview on the epidemiology of COVID-19, share clinical examples and discuss potential treatments.

Date added: 03/25/20

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Surveillance To Detect Hepatocellular Carcinoma | March 12, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hepatocellular carcinoma #hepatology #liver disease #liver screening

Incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is rising quickly in the United States, and AI/AN people are being affected greater than any other group. Dr. Brian McMahon, Director of the Liver Disease and Hepatitis Program at the Alaska Native Tribal Health ...

Date added: 03/12/19

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Addressing the Evolving Opioid and HCV Epidemics | February 27, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #harm reduction #hcv and opioids #injection drugs

Annette Hewitt, Nurse Practitioner for the Liver Disease and Hepatitis Program at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, explains parallels between the opioid and HCV epidemics. She also discusses harm reduction strategies that may be helpful and emphasizes the importance ...

Date added: 02/27/19

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Addiction Treatment and the HCV Provider | February 12, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv and opioids

Dr. Jessica Gregg, Associate Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, discusses the relationship between the opioid epidemic and HCV infections as well as the different treatments available for those suffering from opioid use disorder.

Date added: 02/12/19

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HCV Elimination | January 23, 2019

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #cherokee hcv elimination #hcv elimination #micro-elimination

Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for the Cherokee Nation Health Service, provides a general overview of HCV elimination and micro-elimination, as well as an overview of the Cherokee Nation HCV Elimination Program.

Date added: 01/23/19

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The Impact of SVR on Cirrhosis and Non-Liver Complications | December 11, 2018

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #cirrhosis #direct acting antiviral #interferon treatment #liver disease #sustained virologic response

Annette Hewitt and Lisa Townshend-Bulson, Family Nurse Practitioners from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Liver Disease & Hepatitis Program, present on the impact of sustained virologic response (SVR) on cirrhosis and non-liver complications in both direct acting antiviral (DAA) ...

Date added: 12/11/18

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Opioid Substitution Therapy and the HCV-Provider | November 28, 2018

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv and opioids #opioid substitution therapy #opioids

Dr. Aaron Skiles, a Family Nurse Practitioner with the UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center, shares knowledge on the opioid epidemic, the merits of opioid substitution therapy, and the role of the HCV care provider in treating opioid use disorder.

Date added: 11/28/18

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HCV in Pregnant Women: How the Opioid Crisis is Changing the Landscape | September 26, 2018

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv and children #hcv and opioids #hcv and pregnancy #maternal child health #opioids

Dr. Francheska Sevy Gurule, a Maternal Child Health Fellow at the University of New Mexico, Department of Family and Community Medicine, presents on the impact the opioid crisis has had on the prevalence of HCV in pregnant women.

Date added: 09/26/18

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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