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Past Presentation

Naloxone | February 6 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #naloxone #narcan #opioid overdose #overdose

In this presentation on Naloxone, Blue Valentine addresses why it is important that we continue the conversation around naloxone use, how it works, how to recognize overdose and the steps to take to respond to an overdose and support someone ...

Date added: 02/6/24

Past Presentation

Hear Their Concerns: How to provide pregnancy care and a warm handoff to prenatal care | February 27, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Pregnancy Care and Access

Keywords: #birthing #pregnancy #prenatal care #special considerations #substance use

In this series of presentations, moderator Dr. Patricia (Tricia) Capo (Minnesota Chippewa Tribe), Indian Health Service (IHS) Deputy Chief Clinical Consultant for Obstetrics and Gynecology, welcomes speakers Dr. Michelle Debbink, assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at ...

Date added: 02/6/24

Past Presentation

Basics of Prehospital Care of the Pregnant Patient | February 6th, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Keywords: #ems #post-partum #pregnancy #pregnant

In this presentation, Jenna M. B. White, MD, FAEMS, discusses the basics for the pregnant patient during prehospital care. She goes over how to identify patients currently or recently pregnant, what questions to ask pregnant patients, the anatomic and physiologic ...

Date added: 02/5/24

Past Presentation

Recruitment of Health Aides and Program Support | February 13, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Program: CHAP ECHO Learning Collaborative

Keywords: ##DHA #BHA #CHA #chr #tchp #tribal community health provider

In this series of presentations, Tanya Firemoon, Tribal Community Health Provider Project (TCHP) Contractor at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB), provides an overview of the Portland Area CHAP Certification Board. Then multiple faculty share an overview of ...

Date added: 02/2/24

Past Presentation

Syringe Service Programs in Federal Facilities | February 7, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #federal #harm reduction #sup #veterans health administration

In this presentation, Beth Dinges, PharmD, Minh Q. Ho, DO, FIDSA, and Tessa Rife-Pennington, PharmD, BCGP, discuss expansion of harm reduction services and implementation of syringe services programs (SSP) within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and key lessons learned from ...

Date added: 02/1/24

Past Presentation

Syphilis is on the Rise: Why it Matters and What to Know: Epi Edition | February 1, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #infectious disease #sexual health #sti #syphilis

In this presentation, Ashley Hoover, MPH, briefly highlights best practices for responding to the rise of syphilis in Indigenous communities. Ashley discusses the rise in syphilis, and reviews the current epidemiology of syphilis and congenital syphilis to inform us how ...

Date added: 02/1/24

Handouts

STI Testing Brochure Template

Type: Handouts

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Infectious Disease HIV Virology Hepatitis C Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #patient education #sexually transmitted infections #std #sti

Use this template to promote STI testing at your facility.

Date added: 01/31/24

Past Presentation

Journey to Health ECHO | January 25th, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #DBT #DBT Peer Skills #DBT Peer Skills Meeting #DBT Peers #DBT Skills #Dialetical Behavioral Therapy #Peer Skills #Peer Skills Meeting #Skills Meeting

In this presentation, Ursula Whiteside, PhD, presents on What's a DBT Peer Skills Meeting?.

Date added: 01/25/24

Past Presentation

RSV: Nirsevimab Provider Update and Increasing Uptake | January 25, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #children #nirsevimab #pediatrics #rsv #vaccination #vaccine

In this presentation, Paige Killelea MD, goes over a RSV: Nirsevimab Provider Update and Increasing Uptake. She covers RSV signs and symptoms, Disease burden, Current landscape of Nirsevimab & Dosing Guidelines, a quick note on Palivizumab, Abrysvo: RSV vaccination for ...

Date added: 01/25/24

Past Presentation

Palliative Care is Good Care | January 25, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO

Keywords: #caregiver training #communication #dementia care #palliative care

In this series of presentations, Dr. Tom Teasdale, Dr.P.H., Presidential Professor Emeritus Hudson College of Public Health at the University of Oklahoma, discusses palliative care with a focus on indigenous elders living with dementia. Dr Teasdale, contrasts Palliative Care to ...

Date added: 01/25/24

	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