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Chinle Service Unit Approaches to Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic | July 23, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

In this presentation, Dr. Eric Ritchie, Clinical Director at the Chinle Service Unit discusses challenges limiting use and novel approaches to the use of telemedicine in the COVID-19 response.

Date added: 07/23/20

Past Presentation

Climate Change and COVID-19 | COVID-19 Clinical Updates | July 20, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #climate change #covid clinical updates

In this series of presentations, Dr. Thomas Becker provides an overview of some recent updates in COVID-19 research focusing on climate change and COVID-19. Finally, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, and Whitney Essex, ...

Date added: 07/20/20

Past Presentation

Methamphetamine Use Disorder | July 16, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #harm reduction #Methamphetamine Use Disorder #methamphetamines

In this presentation, Dr. Jessica Gregg and Dr. Ximena Levander from Oregon Health & Science University discuss the history, chemical structure and epidemiology of methamphetamine use disorder. They also discuss treatment for methamphetamine use disorder, the current status of pharmacologic ...

Date added: 07/16/20

Past Presentation

IHS COVID-19 Clinical Readiness and Patient Care | July 16, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #flu vaccination

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, gives a weekly clinical update on COVID-19. Then Dr. Thomas Weiser, Medical Epidemiologist for the Portland Area Indian Health Service, provides an update on IHS ...

Date added: 07/16/20

Past Presentation

Liver Fibrosis | July 14, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #liver disease #liver fibrosis

Dr. Youssef Barbour, a Liver Specialist at the Alaska Native Medical Center shares an overview of liver fibrosis, different approaches to evaluation, as well as a some tools for calculating the level of fibrosis and how to interpret and provide ...

Date added: 07/14/20

Past Presentation

Aerosol Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 | COVID-19 Clinical Updates | July 13, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #covid transmission

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Service, and Whitney Essex, Family Nurse Practitioner for Cherokee Nation Health Service, provide a clinical update along with a summary of several studies related ...

Date added: 07/13/20

Past Presentation

Diabetes and Cirrhosis | July 9, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #cirrhosis #ppe

Approximately 30% of patients with cirrhosis have diabetes mellitus. In addition, diabetes is an independent factor for poor prognosis in patients with cirrhosis. Dr. Mary Carol Greenlee, practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology in Grand Junction, Colorado, shares vital information for ...

Date added: 07/9/20

Past Presentation

The Vargus Nerve: Simple Tools to Help it Function in Our Favor | July 8, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #self care #vagus nerve

This hour long session with Dr. Darryl Tonemah, a PhD of Psychology Counseling and Cultural Studies of Kiowa, Comanche, Tuscarora heritage, focuses on self-care and the Vagus Nerve, as well as self-care for providers. He provides actionable tools to deal ...

Date added: 07/8/20

Past Presentation

Harm Reduction Peers: Centering Programs in Lived Experience | July 7, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction

Keywords: #peer recovery support #peer specialists

This presentation is the first of two discussions on peer-centered harm reduction practices. In this session, moderator Jude Leahy, provides a content discussion on harm reduction peers and has a panel discussion with several peers who are working in the ...

Date added: 07/7/20

Past Presentation

MIS-C | COVID-19 Clinical Updates | July 6, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #multisystem inflammatory syndrome

In this series of two presentations, Dr. Thomas Becker, provides an overview of some recent updates in COVID-19 research focusing on MIS-C. Then, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee National Health Services, and Whitney Essex, Family Nurse ...

Date added: 07/6/20

	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