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Past Presentation

Airway Management | March 13, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

In this presentation, CAPT David Good, CRNA, provides a comprehensive overview of airway management, including airway assessment, preparation, positioning, and equipment. Furthermore, CAPT Good describes induction agents, muscle relaxants, and other pharmacological options, in addition to, pediatric and trauma considerations.

Date added: 03/11/24

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Vector-Borne Illness on Tribal Lands | March 18, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS ECHO Program

Keywords: #american #borne #disease #ecologic #id #illness #indian #infection #infectious #native #tribal #vector

In this presentation, Dr. Michael Henry, MD, and Dr. Max McClure, MD, provide a comprehensive overview of vector-borne illness impacting native communities. Drs. Henry and McClure define vector-borne illnesses and current ecological trends, and review multiple historical patient cases.

Date added: 03/11/24

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Utilization of Telehealth in the Management of Cardiovascular Disease | March 11, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Virtual Care Implementation ECHO Program

Keywords: #cardiology #VCI #virtual #virtual care

In this presentation, Dr. Leon Ptaszek, MD, PhD, summarizes the opportunities associated with implementation of telehealth in regard to Cardiovascular Disease, he discusses the communities who may benefit most from more extensive utilization of telehealth and lastly he goes over ...

Date added: 03/8/24

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Policies & Procedures

National Community Health Representative National Strategic Plan

Type: Download Policies & Procedures

Audience: Clinical

Program: CHAP ECHO Learning Collaborative

Keywords: #chr #community health representatives #strategic plans

The IHS is committed to supporting the National Community Health Representative (CHR) Program in improving the health status, health care system, and service delivery for all American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people. This Strategic Plan describes what the agency, ...

Date added: 03/8/24

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Tend, Gather & Grow

Type: Website

Audience: Community

Program: Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #childhood education #environmental health #first foods #food traditions

Tend, Gather and Grow (Tend) is a K-12 curriculum that focuses on native and naturalized plants of the Pacific Northwest region. Through hands-on activities, students explore themes in cultural ecosystems, herbal medicine, plant technologies, tree communities, and wild food traditions. Northwest Native ...

Date added: 03/8/24

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13 Moons Curriculum

Type: Training Video

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #community health #environmental health #first foods #swinomish #traditional foods

The 13 Moon’s Curriculum was developed by the Swinomish Community Environmental Health program with the goal to create an informal and scalable model of environmental health education through the lens of first foods and resources. Each curriculum phase has a ...

Date added: 03/8/24

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STI Screening in Pregnancy: How to use field testing and treatment for syphilis | March 26, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Care and Access for Pregnant People ECHO Program

Keywords: #birthing #field #pregnancy #prenatal care #sti #syphilis

In this series of presentations, we welcome speakers Dr. Michelle Debbink, assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Vice Chair for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Department of ...

Date added: 03/8/24

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Case Discussion | March 7, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes ECHO Program

Keywords: #basal #care #case #cgm #diabetes #endo #endocrinology #insulin #patient #u-500 #u500

In this session, Dr. Carol Greenlee, endocrinologist, leads a discussion, providing recommendations, considerations, and supporting literature for an active patient case.

Date added: 03/7/24

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Common Procedure Lab (emRIC Skills Day) | April 16, 2024

Type: Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS ECHO Program

Keywords: #common procedure

Description for Providers: In this skills lab, participants will have the opportunity for hands on experience with common procedures such as: incision and drainage, arthrocentesis, complex suturing, reductions, slit lamp exams and corneal foreign body removal. Description for Nursing Staff: ...

Date added: 03/7/24

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Emergency Deliveries and Neonatal Resuscitation Lab (emRIC Skills Day) | April 16, 2024

Type: Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS ECHO Program

Keywords: #deliveries #neonatal

Description for Providers: Emergency deliveries are rare but high stakes and can include complications no one ever wants to face. In this skills lab, we will focus on managing deliveries in the ED setting without an OB/gyn physician immediately available, ...

Date added: 03/7/24

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	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