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Drugs and Dementia (Memory Enhancers?) | November 10, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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 ...

Date added: 11/10/22

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Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment | September 8, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #cognitive impairment #dementia #mini cog #Screening

Early detection of impaired cognition can slow progression and improve function in Alzheimer’s disease and other kinds of progressive dementia, help persons living with dementia and their family to prepare and adapt, and can help find and treat conditions that ...

Date added: 09/8/22

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End-of-Life Care for Elders With Dementia | August 11, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Clinical Dementia ECHO Program

Keywords: #alzheimer's #cultural care #dementia #elder care #end of life #hospice #neurocognitive disorders

In this presentation, Rhonda Oakes, MSN, BSN, RN, CHPN, discusses end of life care for persons with dementia. She highlights how each elders journey is unique, the cultural considerations for care, and resources for the family, caregiver, and health care ...

Date added: 08/11/22

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Tips from the Trenches: A Care Partner’s Reflection on Resources that can Help Families Prepare for the Dementia Journey | June 9 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #caregiver #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: 06/8/22

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Medications to Avoid in Patients with Dementia | May 12, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

In this presentation, Jennifer Reagan, PharmD BCACP, discusses common medications for varied disease states and highlights both high risk prescriptions as well as safer medication choices for persons living with dementia.

Date added: 05/12/22

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Diabetes and Dementia | April 14, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #dementia #dementia and diabetes #inducing dementia

In this presentation, J. Neil Henderson, PhD, discusses the connection between Diabetes and Dementia and poses the questions; are we inducing dementia in Indian Country? How much and what types of Dementia are we inducing? He discusses the colonized etiology ...

Date added: 04/14/22

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Merging Mentation and What Matters: Brain Health in Aging | March 24, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #aging #Brain Health #dementia #mentation

In this session, Emily Trittschuh, PhD, discusses brain health in aging and the 4Ms of aging; Mentation, Mobility, Medicines, and Matters (as in what matters). This is shared with an emphasis on prevention and that person-centric care should be our ...

Date added: 03/24/22

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Brain Health in Indian Country | March 10, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #Brain Health #dementia #elder care

Social capital is associated with better health, lower risks for dementia, disability, and mortality. In the vast majority of cases Alzheimer's disease is not inherited. The most important risk factor for Alzheimer's disease is age. In this presentation, Blythe Winchester ...

Date added: 03/10/22

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Dementia and Safety | February 24, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Community

Keywords: #caregiver support #dementia #safety

In this presentation, Debra Miller TDCS BSW/CSW discusses risks and safety concerns for individuals with dementia and offers practical solutions to plan for and increase safety.

Date added: 02/24/22

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Dementia and Elder Abuse | February 10, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #dementia #elder abuse

Studies show that persons with dementia have over a 50% chance of being abused. In today’s presentation, Dr. Laura Mosqueda shares an overview on the abuse of people with dementia. The person with dementia may be unable to recognize that ...

Date added: 02/10/22

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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