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COVID-19 Clinical Update | Setting Up and Starting an Alternate Care Facility | May 7, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #alternate care sites #covid clinical updates

Following a situation update from RADM Michael Toedt, Chief Medical Officer for the Indian Health Service, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, shares new research on COVID-19 symptoms and updates on testing and treatment. Finally, Dr. Kevin Gaines, the Acting Deputy Chief at ...

Date added: 05/7/20

Past Presentation

Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists COVID-19 Case Definition | Laboratory Testing for COVID-19 | Example Population Testing Strategy for Tribes | May 6, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #coding #covid clinical updates #covid testing

In this series of presentations, Dr. Harry Brown, Medical Epi Consultant for the United Southern and Eastern Tribes, discusses laboratory testing for COVID-19. Dr. Alex Wu, an Epidemic Intelligence Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Dr. ...

Date added: 05/6/20

Past Presentation

Harm Reduction in Tribal Communities | May 5, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction

Keywords: #historical trauma #origins of harm reduction #syringe services #trauma #trauma-informed care

American Indian and Alaska Native people experience adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma at higher rates than the general population. This has serious implications for health throughout the lifespan. In this presentation, Dr. Danica Love Brown, Behavioral Health Manager at ...

Date added: 05/5/20

Past Presentation

Testing for COVID-19 | COVID-19 Timelines – Updated Return to Work for Healthcare Workers | COVID-19 Updates | May 4, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #coding #covid clinical updates #covid testing #return to work

In this series of presentations, Dr. Alex Wu, an Epidemic Intelligence Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides several timelines for COVID-19 and the criteria for return to work for healthcare workers suspected or confirmed to have ...

Date added: 05/4/20

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Indian Health Service COVID-19 Clinical Readiness and Patient Care | April 30, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid and kids #covid clinical updates #pediatrics

This presentation begins with a situation update by RADM Michael Toedt. Then, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Indian Health Service Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases, provides a clinical update on COVID-19. Finally, CAPT Tom Faber, Clinical Director of Zuni IHS Hospital, ...

Date added: 04/30/20

Past Presentation

COVID-19 Updates | April 29, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates

In this series of presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, shares some of the latest updates, articles and studies on COVID-19. Then, Dr. Tom Weiser shares a brief epi report.

Date added: 04/29/20

Past Presentation

COVID-19 and Diabetes: Tools for Sick Day & Care Medication Management Updates | April 28, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #covid clinical care #covid-19 related diabetes #insulin

According to recent reports by the CDC 31% of people who have died from COVID-19 had diabetes, and diabetes affects nearly a quarter of AI/AN adults. In this presentation, Dr. Mary Carol Greenlee, practitioner at Western Slope Endocrinology in Grand ...

Date added: 04/28/20

Past Presentation

COVID-19 Emerging Topic: A Public Health Framework for Reopening Tribal Economies | April 27, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #reopening

Celeste Davis, an Environmental Public Health Consultant for the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, provides guidance on reopening tribal economies using cultural values and public health principles. She is assisted by Dr. Alex Wu, an Epidemic Intelligence Officer for ...

Date added: 04/27/20

Past Presentation

COVID-19 Clinical Readiness and Patient Care | April 23, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #homelessness

RADM Michael Toedt, Chief Medical Officer for the Indian Health Service, provides a brief situation report. Then, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Indian Health Service Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases, shares a clinical update. Finally, Dr. Jennie Wei, an Internal Medicine ...

Date added: 04/23/20

Past Presentation

Re-Membering Native Plant Medicines | COVID-19 Updates | April 22, 2020

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid clinical updates #plant medicines #traditional medicine

Dr. Itai Jeffries, an Investigator and Consultant for the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, speaks on the topic of using traditional medicines during the time of COVID-19. Then, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health ...

Date added: 04/22/20

	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