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Individualized Care Planning for Optimal Outcomes

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Trans & Gender Affirming Care ECHO Program

Date added: 02/12/24

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Community Health Representative (CHR) Strategic Plan | February 26, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Community Health Representative ECHO Program

Keywords: #chr #community health representative #strategic plan

In this series of presentations, moderator Bill Adams, MSN, RN, CDCES, CCHW, NHDP-BC, Area CHR Consultant with the Albuquerque Area Indian Health Service (IHS), welcomes speaker LCDR Whitney Moseley, BSN, RN who is a LCDR for the United States Public ...

Date added: 02/12/24

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Environmental Health Considerations from Mining in the American Southwest | February 12, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #contamination #environment #four corners #metal #mining #southwest #uranium

In this presentation, Dr. Jonathan Credo, PhD, MS-4, seeks to explain pertinent historical mining context in the Four Corners, including uranium. Furthermore, Dr. Credo outlines basic mechanisms leading to environmental contamination from mining, identifies the large prospective cohort studies for ...

Date added: 02/12/24

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Journey to Health ECHO | February 8th, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #aian #alaska native #american indian #behavioral health #chef frank #Chef Lois Ellen Frank #dine #lois ellen frank #lois frank #native vore #nativevore #nativevore lifestyle #navajo #Red Mesa Cuisine #traditional indigenous knowledge

In this presentation, Lois Ellen Frank, discusses Embracing the Nativevore Lifestyle.

Date added: 02/9/24

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Syphilis Screening, Treatment and Management | February 8, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease ECHO Program

Keywords: #sti #syphilis

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, MD, FACP, Indian Country ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services (CNHS), shares how you and your staff can continue to recognize, stage, and treat syphilis.

Date added: 02/8/24

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Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) | February 15, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease ECHO Program

Keywords: #antimicrobial resistance #MDROs #multidrug resistant organisms

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases at Cherokee Nation, provides a clinical update on COVID-19, RSV and influenza. Then, Cal Ham, MD, MPH, Deputy Lead, Antimicrobial Resistance Team, Prevention and ...

Date added: 02/8/24

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Naloxone | February 6 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #naloxone #narcan #opioid overdose #overdose

In this presentation on Naloxone, Blue Valentine addresses why it is important that we continue the conversation around naloxone use, how it works, how to recognize overdose and the steps to take to respond to an overdose and support someone ...

Date added: 02/6/24

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Hear Their Concerns: How to provide pregnancy care and a warm handoff to prenatal care | February 27, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Care and Access for Pregnant People ECHO Program

Keywords: #birthing #pregnancy #prenatal care #special considerations #substance use

In this series of presentations, moderator Dr. Patricia (Tricia) Capo (Minnesota Chippewa Tribe), Indian Health Service (IHS) Deputy Chief Clinical Consultant for Obstetrics and Gynecology, welcomes speakers Dr. Michelle Debbink, assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at ...

Date added: 02/6/24

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Basics of Prehospital Care of the Pregnant Patient | February 6th, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program

Keywords: #ems #post-partum #pregnancy #pregnant

In this presentation, Jenna M. B. White, MD, FAEMS, discusses the basics for the pregnant patient during prehospital care. She goes over how to identify patients currently or recently pregnant, what questions to ask pregnant patients, the anatomic and physiologic ...

Date added: 02/5/24

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Recruitment of Health Aides and Program Support | February 13, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Program: CHAP ECHO Learning Collaborative

Keywords: ##DHA #BHA #CHA #chr #tchp #tribal community health provider

In this series of presentations, Tanya Firemoon, Tribal Community Health Provider Project (TCHP) Contractor at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB), provides an overview of the Portland Area CHAP Certification Board. Then multiple faculty share an overview of ...

Date added: 02/2/24

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	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.

	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.

	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