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Past Presentation

Grief and Depression After Loss | December 18, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Keywords: #depression #grief #loss #support

In this presentation, Dr. Jasen Christensen, DO, reviews how to differentiate between normal grief and complicated grief and discusses approaches to help.

Date added: 12/17/24

Past Presentation

HCV and HIV: CHRs Save Lives | January 13, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Community Health Representative (CHR)

Keywords: #chr #chw #hcv #hiv

In this presentation Brigg Reilley, Epidemiologist, and Andrew Yu, MS, RN, ACRN, National HIV/HCV/STI Clinical Coordinator at Indian Health Service Headquarters provide a broad overview of HIV and Hepatitis C, the ways they are transmitted, prevented and treated. Brigg and ...

Date added: 12/17/24

Past Presentation

Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS) | December 17, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #acute #paws #post #SUD #syndrome #withdraw #withdrawal

In this presentation, CDRs Grund and Gustafson will explore Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS), a phenomenon that can complicate the recovery process for individuals who have recently stopped using addictive substances. Participants will learn about the causes, warning signs, and duration ...

Date added: 12/15/24

Past Presentation

The Month in Virology Clinical Update | December 18, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #avian #covid #dengue #first line app #hepatitis A #influenza #virology #virus

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases at Cherokee Nation, delivers a comprehensive clinical update on key virology topics. Dr. Mera discusses the latest respiratory virus updates (COVID-19 and Influenza), reviews ...

Date added: 12/15/24

Past Presentation

Driving Evaluation | December 12 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia

Keywords: #car safety #driver #elder

In this presentation, Emily Morgan, MD and Sarah Foidel, OTR/L, OTD describe when to screen for driver safety, demonstrate how to screen for driver safety, describe when to send DMV forms vs. refer to OT and review how to report ...

Date added: 12/13/24

Past Presentation

Journey to Health ECHO | December 12, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health

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

In this presentation, Jess Spohn, DSW (c), LCSW, LADAC, MPH discusses “Considerations for Crisis Continuum Services in Rural Communities.”

Date added: 12/12/24

Past Presentation

Atopic Dermatitis (Eczema) – Evaluation and Management | December 17, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Dermatology

Keywords: #atopic dermatitis #derm #dermatology #eczema

In this session, Dr. May Do, MD, lead faculty for the Dermatology Program and second-year dermatology resident at the University of Pennsylvania, reviews the common presentation of eczema, how to become comfortable with classic eczema management and patient counseling, identifies ...

Date added: 12/11/24

Past Presentation

NW Elders ECHO | December 10, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Elders, Knowledge Holders and Culture Keepers

Keywords: #*wholistic health #AI/AN #aian #ceremony #Coffee #gardening #gathering #indigenous knowledge #indigenous ways #plants #Practicing Relationality #traditions

The Northwest Elders and Knowledge Keepers ECHO session took place on December 10, 2024. In this presentation, Jennifer Martin (Cherokee) discusses “Gardening and Gathering - Practicing Relationality.” The faculty panel and staff members for this session of the Northwest Elders, ...

Date added: 12/10/24

Past Presentation

Managing the Complexities of Pain & Addiction | December 16, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities (emRIC)

Keywords: #addiction #chronic pain #pain #substance use disorder #treatment

In this presentation, Dr. Andrew J Smith, MDCM, reviews the landscape of chronic pain including epidemiology, mechanisms, and neuroanatomy, describes current treatments for chronic pain and outlines an approach to managing chronic pain in people with substance use disorders.

Date added: 12/9/24

Past Presentation

Clinical Support and Oversight of CHAP Providers 201 | December 10, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Program: CHAP ECHO Learning Collaborative

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

In this series of presentations, Lisa Griggs, Tribal Community Health Provider Project (TCHP) Manager at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB), provides an overview of the TCHP project. Then, Miranda Davis, DDS, MPH Northwest Dental Health Aide Program ...

Date added: 12/6/24

	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