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Training

Showing Up As Yourself | April 17, 2024

Type: Training

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

Keywords: #authenticity #professional fulfillment #self-compassion

In this presentation, Dr. Al'ai Alvarez, MD, clinical associate professor in Emergency Medicine and the Director of Well-Being at Stanford Emergency Medicine, discusses Showing Up as Yourself: Authenticity and Self-Compassion as a Way to Find Professional Fulfillment. Please note recording ...

Date added: 02/28/24

Training

Trauma Systems: Whole Blood | April 17, 2024

Type: Training

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #trauma #whole blood

In this presentation, Dr. Jade Nunez, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Utah serving as the Associate Trauma Medical Director, discusses the use of whole blood transfusion in trauma. Please note recording will be available shortly following ...

Date added: 02/28/24

Past Presentation

Medications for HCV in Pediatric Patients | March 6, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #children #hcv #hcv monitoring #hcv testing #hep c #hepatitis #pediatrics #treatment

In this presentation, Dr. Paulina Deming discusses the latest guidance on HCV screening in pediatrics, as well recommendations for monitoring and management. Then, Dr. Deming discusses the available HCV medications recommended for use in pediatric patients, helpful tools, dosing, formulations ...

Date added: 02/27/24

Past Presentation

Food Sovereignty for Toddlers: Place based learning and nutrition | February 29, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Early Relational Health (ERH): Parents, Caregivers, and Babies ECHO

Keywords: #children #food sovereignty #toddlers

In this presentation, Danita Macy, SNAP-Ed/ Family and Community Health Program Coordinator at Oregon State University, and Shoshoni Walker, Manager of the Food Sovereignty Initiatives for the WEAVE NW Project at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, discuss Food ...

Date added: 02/27/24

Past Presentation

Common Diagnoses and their Variants for the Emergency and Ambulatory Departments | February 26, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #dermatology #ed #emergency #skin #soft #tissue

In this presentation, Dr. Art Papier, MD, Associate Professor in Dermatology and Medical Informatics at the University of Rochester, leads the 2nd part of a 3-part series focused on dermatology with an overview of common diagnoses and their variants for ...

Date added: 02/26/24

Past Presentation

Journey to Health ECHO | February 22nd, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #add keywords #cultural care #cultural competence #Cultural Competency #cultural interventions #cultural safety #cultural wellness #culturally affirming practices #culturally competent care #culture #Culture as prevention #culture heals #culture-based strategies #overdose prevention #prevention #suicide prevention #violence prevention

In this presentation, Danica Love Brown, PhD, MSW, CACII (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) presents on Culture as Prevention.

Date added: 02/23/24

Past Presentation

Substance Use Disorders: Habits, Triggers, Treatment | February 28, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #neurobiology #sud diagnostic criteria

In this presentation, Dr. Jessica Gregg, MD, PhD, reviews the terminology and definitions of substance use disorders. Then, Dr Gregg, discusses diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders, provides an overview of the neurobiology of addiction, and previews effective, evidence-based interventions.

Date added: 02/23/24

Past Presentation

Postural Orthostasis-Tachycardia Syndrome and Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia | February 26th, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Cardiology

Keywords: #cardiac #heart #ist #outpatient #pots

In this presentation, Dr. Leon Ptaszek, MD, PhD, cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician on the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital, describes the pathophysiology of Postural Orthostasis-Tachycardia Syndrome and Inappropriate ...

Date added: 02/22/24

Past Presentation

Using reminiscence therapy with Indigenous foods and music to support caregivers in redirecting relatives with dementia | February 22, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO

Keywords: #caregiver training #dementia care #indigenous foods #music #reminiscence

In this presentation, Dr. Jordan P. Lewis (Aleut, Native Village of Naknek), Ph.D., MSW, Associate Director of the Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team and Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus, first provides a background of Dementia, ...

Date added: 02/22/24

Handouts

Promotional Postcard for SNAG101 – A Sexual Health SMS Campaign for Native Adults

Type: Handouts

Audience: Community

Program: Infectious Disease HIV Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv #hepatitis c #hiv #sexual health #sms campaigns #syphilis #text message campaigns

To demystify and indigenize sexual health education, the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB) created Snag 101 – a free text message service for AI/AN adults. If you are a clinician, health educator, or social service provider who works ...

Date added: 02/22/24

	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