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Past Presentation

UTIs: New Updates and Practical Approaches to Challenging Cases | April 17, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #CAUTI #cystitis #delirium #infectious diseases #uti

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, provides an overall infectious disease clinical update focusing on COVID-19, avian influenza, measles, and syphilis. Then, Dr. Leslie Stewart, MD, reviews the definitions, diagnosis and treatment of UTIs, previews new guidelines for ...

Date added: 04/10/25

Past Presentation

Syphilis | March 17, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Community Health Representative (CHR)

In this series of presentations Tonisha Alkire, CHR Director at Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, shares their programs robust contract tracing and follow up program for CHR centered Syphilis screening and connection to treatment. Jessica Leston, Owner/Partner of The Raven Collective, ...

Date added: 04/9/25

Past Presentation

Methadone Updates | April 3, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #methadone #opioids #substance use treatment

In this presentation, Dr. Gregg delivers a comprehensive overview of methadone, its role in maintenance treatment, and the operation of opioid treatment programs (OTPs), while also reviewing their historical context and examining the current landscape and developments in the field.

Date added: 04/3/25

Past Presentation

Back to Basics Part 2 | April 1, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Keywords: #Clinical Skills #Healthcare Training #Medical Education #Patient Assessment #Vital Signs

In the second of a two part presentation Dr. Whitney Barret dives into the essentials of patient assessment. This presentation covers the importance of structured evaluations, cognitive biases in clinical decision-making, and how to interpret vital signs manually. Learn why ...

Date added: 04/1/25

Past Presentation

Fentanyl Facts vs Fiction | April 1, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Harm Reduction

Keywords: #fentanyl #harm reduction #myth #overdose #safe supply

In this presentation Blue Valentine addresses questions from providers and community members about fentanyl and addresses concerns about overdose risk from touching fentanyl, fentanyl test strips, the myth of “Naloxone-resistant” fentanyl, fentanyl laced cannabis and overdoses from smoking and vaping ...

Date added: 04/1/25

Past Presentation

Hepatitis B and D Coinfection | April 2, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hbv #HDV #hepatitis #hepatitis b #hepatitis d

In this presentation, Dr. Paulina Deming, ECHO faculty member and Associate Professor of Pharmacy at the University of New Mexico Sciences Center, discusses the relationship between hepatitis B and hepatitis delta, hepatitis delta screening recommendations, and the differences in clinical ...

Date added: 03/31/25

Past Presentation

Pathways Toward Revenue Generation for Community Health Aide Providers’ (CHAPs) Services | April 8, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Program: CHAP ECHO Learning Collaborative

Keywords: ##DHA #BHA #billing #CHA #chr #medicaid #reimbursement #state plan amendment #tchp #tribal community health provider

In this presentation, Kate Denny, Tribal Community Health Provider Program (TCHPP) Manager, discusses pathways towards revenue generation for CHAP services, processes for Medicaid State Plan Amendment implementation, reviews billing codes for CHAP services, billing for CHAP providers pre / post ...

Date added: 03/31/25

Past Presentation

Project Supporting Treatment Access and Engagement for Your Recovery | March 26, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #harm reduction #mobile health care #overdose prevention #Recovery

In this presentation Annette Hubbard shares on the innovative and patient centered mobile care that is happening at Ninilchik Traditional Council Community Clinic. The mobile clinic provides life saving harm reduction services, pharmacologic treatment for substance use disorder, connection to ...

Date added: 03/26/25

Past Presentation

Recognition and Management of Human Trafficking in Prehospital Care | March 20, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Keywords: #ems #human trafficking #prehospital assessment

In this presentation Dr. Michael DeFilippo, DO, covers the recognition and management of human trafficking in prehospital care. It defines human trafficking, outlines key components (act, means, purpose), and highlights high-risk populations such as immigrants, LGBTQ youth, and homeless individuals. ...

Date added: 03/21/25

Past Presentation

HIV-Associated Opportunistic Infections | March 20, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #hiv #infectious diseases #measles

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, provides an overall infectious disease clinical update focusing on measles. Then, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, MD, reviews the latest guidance for HIV-associated opportunistic infections, including pneumocystis pneumonia, microsporidiosis, cytomegalovirus colitis, cryptococcal meningitis, and ...

Date added: 03/20/25

	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