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Delirium vs Dementia | January 11 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #confusion #delirium #dementia #depression #elder care

Delirium is an acute confusional state, also called metabolic encephalopathy. In this presentation Dr. Blythe Winchester discusses key features, risk factors, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of delirium. She shares on the differences between dementia, delirium, and depression, followed by several ...

Date added: 01/12/24

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Drugs and Dementia | November 9th 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia ECHO Program

Keywords: #dementia #medication #treatment

In this presentation, Eric Metterhausen, PharmD, BCPS, CPP, CPH, presents on what medications may help memory in patients with Alzheimer’s (including removal of exacerbating medications, as well as cholinesterase inhibitors, NMDA receptor antagonist, Recombinant monoclonal antibody against amyloid beta, investigational medications, ...

Date added: 11/9/23

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Causes of Cognitive Impairment | August 10 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia ECHO Program

Keywords: #cognition #cognitive impairment #mild cognitive impairment

In this presentation, Dr. Blythe Winchester reviews the criteria for a major neurocognitive disorder and what we should be focusing on when we are evaluating an individual with cognitive impairment including an extensive differential diagnosis.

Date added: 08/10/23

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Tips from the Trenches: A Care Partner’s Reflection on Resources that can Help Families Prepare for the Dementia Journey | July 13 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Clinical Dementia ECHO Program

Keywords: #caregiver support #dementia care #dementia resources #depression and dementia

In this presentation, Allyson Schrier, Program Manager, UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center, shares tips from the trenches as a care partner and shares resources she wishes the diagnosing doctor had shared with her.

Date added: 07/13/23

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The Basics of Brain Exercises | June 8 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia ECHO Program

Keywords: #brain exercises #cognition #cognitive screening

In this presentation, Dr. Blythe Winchester discusses and demystifies a variety of screenings and tools that evaluate cognitive functioning or what she refers to with her patients as brain exercises. Learn tips on normalizing the process and best administering and ...

Date added: 06/8/23

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Timing and Cognitive Screens: What is the Value of Early Detection? | May 11 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia ECHO Program

Keywords: #cognitive impairment #cognitive screening #dementia

Dementia, of all kinds, occurs in all communities and is a chronic disease. With the proper tools and education, it can be diagnosed and managed, for the most part, in primary care. In this presentation, Dr. Blythe Winchester discusses risk ...

Date added: 05/11/23

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Cultural Considerations in Dementia Care | March 9th 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Clinical Dementia ECHO Program

Keywords: #cultural care #cultural considerations #culturally affirming practices

Between 2014–2060, the number of AI/ANs aged 65 and older living with dementia is projected to grow over five times. In 2015–2017, one in six AI/ANs aged 45 and older reported subjective cognitive decline (SCD) — that is, self-reported difficulties ...

Date added: 03/9/23

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Caring For Your Brain: Addressing Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in Indian Country | February 9th, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Clinical Dementia ECHO Program

Keywords: #ADRD #BOLD #brain #dementia #elders #indigenous knowledge #mild cognitive impairment #resources for dementia

In this presentation, Chandra Wilson provides an introduction to Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) in Indian Country and shares on ways to do a community assessment and important questions to ask to assess education needs as well as provides ...

Date added: 02/9/23

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Aging Advocacy and Lived Experience of a Dementia Diagnosis | January 12, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #aging advocacy #dementia diagnosis #lived experience

In this presentation and following discussion, nationally-recognized Native advocate, Dave Baldridge, shares his lived experience of a dementia diagnosis and his wisdom on aging advocacy. He discusses the initial diagnosis, the personal implications, the changes needed to made, and the ...

Date added: 01/12/23

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Care Management: Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) | December 8, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Clinical Dementia ECHO Program

Keywords: #Behavior management #dementia care #elder care

In this presentation Dr. Mark Pippenger teaches on how to recognize common behavioral and psychological symptoms in patients with ADRD (Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias), recognize the importance of determining what the behavior is communicating, and how to ...

Date added: 12/8/22

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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