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Past Presentation

Initiating PrEP | November 19, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis)

In this presentation, Jorge Mera, MD, FACP, ECHO faculty member, infectious disease physician and director of Infectious Diseases at Cherokee Nation Health Services, shares valuable insights around clinical/laboratory evaluation prior to prescribing PrEP, rational for labs, interpretation of HIV and HBV serology, treatment ...

Date added: 09/16/21

Past Presentation

Monitoring the Patient While on PrEP/Addressing Complications | December 3, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis)

Keywords: #hiv #monitoring #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep

In this presentation, Jonathan Iralu, MD, FACP, Indian Health Service Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases, provides a detailed update on monitoring persons on PrEP, including recommended labs, clinical monitoring and STI/HIV testing recommendations.

Date added: 09/16/21

Past Presentation

Monitoring the Patient While on PrEP/Addressing Complications – Part 2 | December 10, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis)

Keywords: #monitoring #prep

In this presentation, Janet Cabrales, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacist at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center, discusses lab monitoring for people on PrEP, side effects of medication and adherence considerations, details on how and when to transition from non-occupational PEP to PrEP, and finally ...

Date added: 09/16/21

Past Presentation

Recruiting for PrEP Candidates | December 17, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis)

Keywords: #candidate #hiv #prep #recruit

In this presentation, Leslie Stewart, MD, infectious diseases physician for Chinle Hospital (Navajo Nation), shares provider based interventions to increase PrEP, effective strategies for patient education and engagement, and innovative strategies for PrEP delivery, including a focus on mobile clinics, ...

Date added: 09/16/21

Past Presentation

SARS-COV-2 Transmission in Educational Settings | Public Health and CDC/FDA Updates | September 15, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid transmission in education settings #covid updates

In this series of presentations, Dr. Thomas Becker, Medical Epidemiologist and ECHO faculty member, reviews the latest articles on SARS-COV-2 transmission in educational settings. Then, Dr. Eitan Bornstein, MD, ECHO faculty member and Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Centers ...

Date added: 09/16/21

Past Presentation

COVID-19 Clinical Updates | September 1, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #covid updates

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases and Whitney Essex, Family Nurse Practitioner at Cherokee Nation Health Services, summarizes the latest clinical updates focused on COVID-19 prevention, transmission, vaccination, and treatment, and provides the latest update on ...

Date added: 09/16/21

Past Presentation

New Onset Diabetes in COVID-19 | August 18, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #diabetes and covid-19

In this presentation, Dr. Thomas Becker, Medical Epidemiologist and ECHO faculty member, reviews the latest articles related to risk of diabetes or longer-term abnormalities of glycemic control post Covid-19, as well as provides a number of valuable resources related to ...

Date added: 09/16/21

Past Presentation

Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccines | COVID-19 Clinical Updates | August 4, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #vaccine confidence

In this presentation, Tyanne Conner, Native Boost Project Coordinator at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, shares practical tips for building COVID-19 vaccine confidence among your patients, then Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health ...

Date added: 09/16/21

Past Presentation

Indigenous Story Work | August 3, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction

Keywords: #oral tradition #stories #storytelling

Through the practice of storywork and oral traditions, indigenous people learn to live in right relationship with the themselves, their families, communities, and all of creation. In this presentation, Dr. Danica Love Brown, Behavioral Health Manager at the Northwest Portland ...

Date added: 09/13/21

Past Presentation

Harm Reduction Support and Perspective on Return to Use | September 7, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction

Keywords: #harm reduction #return to use

In this presentation, faculty discuss supporting patients who return to use and how to continue to center safety, compassion, and accessibility while offering Harm Reduction resources.

Date added: 09/13/21

	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