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Dementia Types and Tailored Approaches | February 13, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #Alzheimer’s Disease #Behavioral Changes #Cognitive Decline #Dementia Risk Factors #Dementia Symptoms #Dementia Treatment Strategies #Dementia Types #Frontotemporal Dementia #Individualized Dementia Care #Lewy Body Dementia #Memory Loss #Mixed Dementia #Neurodegenerative Disorder #Non-Pharmacological Dementia Treatments #Progressive Dementia #Vascular Dementia

In this presentation, Allison Lindauer, Ph.D., APRN, provides a comprehensive overview of the most common types of dementia, including Alzheimer’s Disease, Vascular Dementia, Lewy Body Dementia, Frontotemporal Dementia, and Mixed Dementia. She highlights the key features of each type, such ...

Date added: 02/13/25

Past Presentation

Diagnosis and Treatment of Meningitis | February 20, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #avian #bone #covid #infectious diseases #influenza #joint #pcv #syphilis

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, provides an overall infectious disease clinical update focusing on COVID-19, avian influenza, pneumococcal vaccines, and syphilis. Then, Dr. Alithea Gabrellas, MD, reviews the latest guidance provided by the Infectious Diseases Society of ...

Date added: 02/13/25

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Journey to Health ECHO | February 13, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #*Indigenous health #*wholistic health #american indian #culture as medicine #indigenous #rural communities

In this presentation, Richard Begay (Navajo) discusses “Diné Winter Stories”.

Date added: 02/13/25

Past Presentation

NW Elders ECHO | February 11, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Elders, Knowledge Holders and Culture Keepers

Keywords: #AI/AN #aian #ceremony #Coaching #gathering #indigenous knowledge #Indigenous teachings #indigenous ways #leadership #resilience #Sacred #traditions #Wisdom

The Northwest Elders and Knowledge Keepers ECHO session took place on February 11, 2025. In this presentation, Dr. Felix C. Villanueva, EdD, MCC discusses “Leading with Wisdom: Coaching & Indigenous Teachings for Resilient Leadership in Uncertain Times”. The faculty panel ...

Date added: 02/11/25

Past Presentation

Bacterial Infections | February 18, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Dermatology

Keywords: #bacterial infections #cutaneous #derm #dermatology #treatment

In this session, Dr. May Do, MD, lead faculty for the Dermatology Program and fourth-year dermatology resident at the University of Pennsylvania, reviews common pediatric and adult cutaneous bacterial infection, discusses common mimickers of bacterial infections, and treatment.

Date added: 02/10/25

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Substance Use Disorder and Harm Reduction | February 10, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Community Health Representative (CHR)

Keywords: #harm reduction #Recovery #SUD #wellness journey

In this presenation Jessica Rienstra, PMHNP-BC, reviews the DSM-5 diagnositc criteria of Substance Use Disorder. She also discusses the evidence based practice of Harm Reduction, sharing what it is and what it isn't, why it matters and how it has ...

Date added: 02/10/25

Past Presentation

Management of Traumatic Arrest | February 12, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #arrest #blunt #innovations #penetrating #trauma

In this presentation, Hamza Hanif, MD, General Surgery Residency Program at the University of New Mexico, discusses the pathophysiology of traumatic cardiac arrest, methods for early resuscitation, the utility of ED thoracotomy and Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta, ...

Date added: 02/7/25

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Co-Occurring Disorders | February 18, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Advancing Pharmacist Roles in Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Teams

Keywords: #co-occurring #disorder #health #mental #occurring #substance #use

In this presentation, CDR Draude, PharmD, BCPP, AAHIVP, focuses on the comorbidity of mental health disorders and substance use disorders (SUDs), providing strategies for screening and treatment. Participants will learn to identify the widespread occurrence of these conditions, evaluate appropriate ...

Date added: 02/5/25

Past Presentation

Advance Directives for EMS Clinicians | February 4, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Keywords: #Advanced directive #DNR #ems #end of life

In this presentation Dr. Shelby Parker provides an in-depth overview of advance directives and their critical role in emergency medical services. She covers key documents such as living wills, durable power of attorney, DNR/DNI orders, and Medical Orders for Scope ...

Date added: 02/5/25

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Resiliency and Radical Acceptance | February 4, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Harm Reduction

Keywords: #emotional regulation #radical acceptance #Recovery #resilience

In this presentation, Debra Buffalo Boy speaks on Resiliency and Radical Acceptance and how resiliency provides balance across mental, physical, social, and spiritual life. She reviews 8 key components of resiliency including self belief, optimism, purpose of direction, adaptability, ingenuity, ...

Date added: 02/5/25

	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