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Back to Basics Part 3 | May 15, 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 three part presentation Dr. Whitney Barret dives into the essentials of patient assessment. Perfect for healthcare professionals and students looking to sharpen their diagnostic skills and avoid common pitfalls in patient care.

Date added: 05/16/25

Past Presentation

Advanced Care Planning | May 8 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO

Keywords: #advance directive #advance planning #dementia

In this presentation, Megan Brassine, Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing and FNP, discusses the importance of advanced care planning for loved ones living with dementia and their families.

Date added: 05/16/25

Past Presentation

Introduction to Tuberculosis | May 15, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #id #tb #tuberculosis

In this series of presentations, Dr. James Cowan, Infectious Disease Physician for the Indian Health Service at Shiprock NM, defines Tuberculosis (TB), describes how TB spreads and infection prevention, reviews inactive/latent TB infection and TB disease, the risk factors, and ...

Date added: 05/15/25

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Vulvar Dermatology | May 20, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Dermatology

Keywords: #derm #derm guidelines #dermatology #vulvar

The Indian Country Dermatology ECHO provides comprehensive information to support Indian Health Service, Tribal, and Urban Indian clinicians to improve dermatologic care and access for American Indian and Alaska Native people. In this session, Dr. Devon McMahon, MD, dermatology resident ...

Date added: 05/12/25

Past Presentation

Congenital Syphilis | May 27, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Pregnancy Care and Access

Keywords: #congenital #syphilis

In this presentation, Jessica Leston, MPH, highlights best practices for responding to the rise of congenital syphilis rates in Indigenous communities. Jessica provides a national overview of congenital syphilis and shares how you and your staff can recognize, respond to ...

Date added: 05/8/25

Past Presentation

Hepatitis B Serologies | May 7, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hbv #hcv #hepatitis b #serologies #test

In this presentation, Dr. Paulina Deming, PharmD, PhC, reviews the serological tests needed to screen for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections and how to interpret HBV serological test results.

Date added: 05/7/25

Past Presentation

Airway Management | May 6 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Keywords: #abc #airway #airway management

In this presentation Darren Braude, MD, EMT-P, discusses airway management.

Date added: 05/7/25

Past Presentation

Healthy Homes and Asthma Control | April 22, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: General Session

Keywords: #asthma #environmental health #healthy homes #homes

In this presentation, CAPT Timothy P. Duffy, Ryan Wheeler, and Alan Bloch, discuss asthma triggers, healthy homes assessments and asthma control, best practice trainings and procedures, examples of activities they are conducting and results. Timothy, Ryan and Alan also review ...

Date added: 04/23/25

Past Presentation

Expanding HCV/HIV/Syphilis POC Testing Outside the Cherokee Nation Health Services | April 23, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv #hiv #poc #syphilis #test #treat

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, MD, reviews innovative strategies and tools to expand HCV, HIV, and syphilis point-of-care-testing outside of the typical clinic setting.

Date added: 04/21/25

Past Presentation

Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy | April 21, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Cardiology

Keywords: #cardiac #cardiovascular disease #heart #pregnancy

In this presentation Dr. Amy Sarma, MD, provides a review of how to prevent, identify and manage cardiovascular disease in the context of pregnancy.

Date added: 04/21/25

	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