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Past Presentation

Psoriasis and Seborrheic Dermatitis | November 18, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #derm #derm guidelines #dermatitis #dermatology #psoriasis #seborrheic

In this presentation, Dr. Do reviews common presentations of mild-moderate psoriasis and seborrheic dermatitis, discusses how to evaluate for comorbidities in patients with psoriasis, and provides tangible recommendations for starting initial first line treatments for psoriasis and seborrheic dermatitis. .

Date added: 11/6/25

Past Presentation

OB in Trauma | November 12, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #abide #assessment #management #ob #pregnancy #trauma

In this presentation, Dr. Guest describes the physiological and anatomical changes of pregnancy that impact the assessment and management of trauma patients, identifies the most common mechanisms and patterns of trauma in pregnant patients (e.g., motor vehicle collisions, falls, intimate ...

Date added: 11/6/25

Past Presentation

Lethal Causes of Abdominal Pain | November 4, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Keywords: #abdominal #abdominal pain #ems

In this presentation, Mateo Garcia, MD, discusses the top 5 lethal abdominal pain complaints, the key factors and findings that can clue you into the diagnosis, and also covers key treatments to consider for these patients in the prehospital setting.

Date added: 11/4/25

Past Presentation

State of Sepsis 2025 | November 17, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

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

Keywords: #antibiotic #corticosteroid #emric #sepsis #septic shock #vasopressor

In this presentation, Dr. Onofrey defines sepsis and septic shock according to current criteria and consider the applicability of screening tools, review the evidence surrounding antibiotic timing and fluid resuscitation strategies, and disusses how to select and sequence vasopressor therapy ...

Date added: 11/4/25

Past Presentation

The Month in Virology Clinical Update | December 17, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid #influenza #rsv #vaccines #virology #virus

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases at Cherokee Nation, delivers a clinical update on key virology topics focusing on the current evidence of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and risk factors associated ...

Date added: 10/24/25

Past Presentation

Management of Common Cardiac Diseases in the Primary Care Setting | December 15th, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Cardiology

Keywords: #cardiac #cardiac arrhythmias #coronary artery disease #ECG #heart #heart failure #outpatient

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, discusses how to recognize and evaluate coronary artery disease, ...

Date added: 10/24/25

Past Presentation

HCV Treatment Monitoring: Keeping it Simple | November 5, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcv #hcv cure #hcv monitoring #hcv treatment #hep c #hepatitis

In this session, Dr. Paulina Deming discusses baseline laboratories recommended for HCV treatment evaluation, identifies patients eligible for simplified monitoring and shares HCV treatment monitoring recommendations.

Date added: 10/23/25

Past Presentation

Pregnancy Care and Access in Indian Country | October 28, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Pregnancy Care and Access

Keywords: #indigenous determinants of health #maternal #parenting #reproductive #traditional

In this presentation, Sasha Smith (Tulalip), Family Support Coordinator serving the Tulalip Tribes, and Shashana Skippingday (White Earth Ojibwe), Director of Programs for the Division of Indian Work, describe the central role of community in supporting maternal, infant, and family ...

Date added: 10/22/25

Past Presentation

CDC Injury Control Research Centers (ICRC) Partnered Research with Native and Indigenous Communities | October 21, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: General Session

Keywords: #cdc #injury control #injury prevention #injury research

This presentation recording features leaders from CDC-funded Injury Control Research Centers (ICRCs) sharing their collaborative work with Native and Indigenous communities to prevent injuries and promote wellness. Speakers from the University of Michigan, University of Colorado, Columbia University, and Johns ...

Date added: 10/21/25

Past Presentation

The Art of Addressing Stigma: Perspective Taking as an Effective Approach to Improve Care for People Who Use Drugs | October 21, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #stigma #SUD

In this presentation, Dr. Clayton Shuman explores how stigma impacts the treatment of substance use disorders (SUD) in Indigenous and rural communities and demonstrates how an arts-based, perspective-taking approach can help clinicians recognize and reduce stigma to improve patient care.

Date added: 10/21/25

	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