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Past Presentation

Cannabis and Dementia: Cause? Treatment? What do we know? | September 11, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO

Keywords: #aging #cannabis #elder care #THC

In this presentation Dr. Maureen Nash explores the complex relationship between cannabis use and brain health, particularly in the context of dementia. Attendees will gain a better understanding of what dementia is and why cannabis use matters in this population. ...

Date added: 10/8/25

Past Presentation

Healthy Nutrition | August 14, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO

Keywords: #Mediterranean diet #nutrition

In this presentation, Dr. Elizabeth Eckstrom discusses practical ways to spot and address lifestyle habits that may increase the risk of dementia. She also explains what makes the Mediterranean-style diet so beneficial for the brain and offers tips on how ...

Date added: 10/8/25

Past Presentation

Cognitive Supplements | July 10, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO

Keywords: #Brain Health #dementia #supplements

In this presentation Dr. Alexis Garcia Coan describes the historical-cultural context of three cognitive supplements with more relevance to Indian Country: ginseng, fish oil, and echinacea. She provides a review of the evidence supporting the use of common supplements marketed ...

Date added: 10/8/25

Past Presentation

TBI overlays with Dementia | June 12 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO

Keywords: #Cognitive Decline #dementia #tbi #traumatic brain injury

In this presentation Sarah Foidel, PP-OTD, OTR/L, FAOTA reviews understanding of Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) diagnosis and symptoms, while identifying how to examine and recognize the intersection between brain injury and dementia, using case study examples, to increase ability to ...

Date added: 10/8/25

Past Presentation

Lost in Transaminases? A Map Through the Liver Maze | October 22, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #cirrhosis #fibrosis #transaminases

In this presentation, Dr. Ellen Green, reviews abnormal LFT patterns, how to assess fibrosis and cirrhosis and recognize the progression of liver disease toward cirrhosis, identifying critical laboratory and clinical signs that warrant further investigation or a hepatology referral.

Date added: 10/7/25

Past Presentation

The Northwest Dental Health Aide Program | October 14, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Program: CHAP ECHO Learning Collaborative

Keywords: ##DHA #BHA #chr #dental health aide #tchp #tribal community health provider

In this series of presentations, Pam Ready, DHA Education Manager, identifies the different types of Dental Health Aides within the Community Health Aide Program, describes the scope of practice for each role, and reviews strategies for effectively integrating a Dental ...

Date added: 10/7/25

Past Presentation

Anti-MRSA De-escalation and Antimicrobial Stewardship Updates | September 18, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #antimicrobial resistance #avian #covid #infectious diseases #influenza #measles #mrsa #stewardship #syphilis

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, provides an overall infectious disease clinical update focusing on COVID-19, avian influenza, measles, and syphilis. Then, Dr. Lena Wong, reviews current literature on de-escalating anti-MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus) therapy guided by nasal ...

Date added: 09/18/25

Past Presentation

Beyond Access – Restoring Balance and Justice in Indigenous Maternal Health | September 23, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Pregnancy Care and Access

Keywords: #indigenous determinants of health #maternal #reproductive

In this presentation, Jessica Leston, MPH, highlights key disparities in Indigenous maternal and reproductive health outcomes (e.g., maternal mortality, congenital syphilis, prenatal care gaps) and explains how systemic inequities contribute to these patterns. Then, Jessica reviews the Indigenous Determinants of ...

Date added: 09/16/25

Past Presentation

Native-Valve Infective Endocarditis (NVIE): Diagnosis and Management | September 15, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #cardiology #endocarditis

In this presentation Dr. Jorge Mera, MD, PhD, delivers a comprehensive clinical update on endocarditis, including risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.

Date added: 09/11/25

Past Presentation

dStigmatizing Diabetes: Addressing Diabetes Stigma and its Outcomes | September 11, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #diabetes #stigma

In this presentation, Matthew Garza, Director of The diaTribe Foundation, explores people’s experiences with diabetes stigma in clinical settings, its impacts, and the tools available to measure it. He will also share recommendations for addressing stigma across the care team, ...

Date added: 09/11/25

	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