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Past Presentation

Community Health Representative Position and Development | November 18, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Community Health Representative (CHR)

Keywords: #chr #community health representative #position descriptions #scopes of work

In this presentation Fernando "Bo" Flores, CHR Program Manager for Colorado River Indian Tribes, discusses the pathway to becoming a proficient and reliable Community Health Representative (CHR) by emphasizing the importance of professional growth through training, experience, and education. He ...

Date added: 09/6/24

Past Presentation

Hip Pain & Sono Guided Treatment | September 16, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #block #ed #emergency #emric #er #fascia #hip #iliaca #sono #ultrasound

In this presentation, Dr. Jon Vivolo, DO, delivers an in-depth exploration of hip pain management and treatment in the emergency setting, emphasizing the use of ultrasound-guided therapy for precise and effective interventions.

Date added: 09/6/24

Past Presentation

Overview of Ketamine Treatments | September 5th 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #depression #ketamine #treatment resistant depression

In this presentation Dr. Lucas Dunklee shares a review of evidence on Ketamine and Esketamine treatments and current uses in psychiatry to enhance understanding of ketamine-related treatments, particularly their role in managing treatment-resistant depression (TRD), along with the associated risks ...

Date added: 09/5/24

Website

Time in Range

Type: Website

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #diabetes #living with diabetes #time in range #wellness

From their website: "People with diabetes deserve to spend more time enjoying life and less time moonlighting as their own pancreas. That’s why we’re here! Time in range can help people with diabetes feel better physically and mentally. It gives ...

Date added: 09/4/24

Website

diaTribe

Type: Website

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #diabetes #diabetes education #living with diabetes #patient education #wellness

The mission of the diaTribe Foundation is to help people with diabetes and prediabetes and to advocate for action. Their website includes information for both patients and providers to understand diabetes, as well as information about living well with diabetes.

Date added: 09/4/24

Website

dStigmatize

Type: Website

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #destigmatization #diabetes #patient communication #stigmatization

dStigmatize is an organization seeking to end the stigmatization of people with diabetes. Their website includes training materials and resources for providers.

Date added: 09/4/24

Past Presentation

EMS Approach To The Patient With A Headache | September 3 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Keywords: #concussion #head pain #headache #tbi

In this presentation Dr. Kimberly Pruett provides a focused approach to managing patients with headaches. She covers the evaluation process, treatment protocols, and differentiating between various causes of headaches and head pain. It emphasizes key symptoms to watch for, how ...

Date added: 09/3/24

Past Presentation

Helping People with Diabetes Thrive with Time in Range | September 12, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #cgm #coalition #diabetes #dm #glucose #range #tar #tbr #time #tir

In this presentation, Audree Hall, the Digital Campaign Manager of the Time in Range Coalition, delivers a comprehensive overview of the coalition's mission to transform diabetes care. The Time in Range Coalition is a collaborative initiative that unites the diabetes ...

Date added: 09/3/24

Past Presentation

Treat Addiction Like a Chronic Disease in Ambulatory Care: With Confidence and Compassion | September 17, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #addiction #Ambulatory #care #integration #outcomes #pharm #pharmacy #primary #reimbursement #Screening #SUD

In this presentation, Dr. Jeffrey Paul Bratberg, Pharm.D., FAPhA, Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Research at the University of Rhode Island, explores the integration of addiction care into ambulatory settings. The session covers strategies for incorporating addiction screening, ...

Date added: 08/30/24

Past Presentation

Training

Providing PrEP and PEP Services at your Clinic | September 11, 2024

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #hiv #pep #pre-exposure prophylaxis #prep

In this presentation, Andrew Yu, MS, BSN, RN, ACRN, and Leah Besh, PA-C, discuss providing PrEP and PEP services at your clinic.

Date added: 08/27/24

	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