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Past Presentation

Impact of Methamphetamine on the Heart | October 16, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #cardiac #heart #methamphetamine #stimulant

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 impact of stimulant use on the heart, ...

Date added: 10/15/23

Past Presentation

Clinical Supervision for Behavioral Health Aides (BHAs), Community Health Aides (CHAs), and Dental Health Aides (DHAs) | October 10, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Program: CHAP ECHO Learning Collaborative

Keywords: ##DHA #BHA #CHA #clinical supervision #mentorship #tchp #tribal community health provider

In this session, Carrie Sampson Samuels, CHAP Program Director, leads a discussion with Tribal Community Health Provider clinical supervisors. The session provided a platform for clinical supervisors to share their experiences and discuss areas for improvement. The panel emphasized the ...

Date added: 10/13/23

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Journey to Health ECHO | October 12th, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #aian #alaska native #american indian #behavioral health #culture #difference #indian country #power #privilege #race #uncomfortable topics

In this presentation, Anu Taranath, PhD, discusses Getting More Comfortable with Uncomfortable Topics.

Date added: 10/13/23

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Holding Space for Pregnancy Care: Elevating Indigenous Birthing Practices | November 28

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: General Session Pregnancy Care and Access

Keywords: #birthing #birthing practices #midwife #pregnancy #traditional practices

The November Indian Country ECHO Grand Rounds focused on holding space for pregnancy care in Indian Health Service, Tribal and Urban Indian (I/T/U) primary care clinics and elevating Indigenous birthing practices. In this series of presentations moderated by Dr. Patricia ...

Date added: 10/12/23

Past Presentation

The Resurgence of Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis: What Can We Do Now | November 14, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #Bicillin #congenital syphilis #penicillin #shortages #staging #syphilis

In this presentation, Philana Liang, Physician Assistant with the Washington University Infectious Disease Clinic and Core Program Manager at the St. Louis STI/HIV Prevention Training Center, offers advice for timely recognition and appropriate staging and treatment in light of pending ...

Date added: 10/12/23

Past Presentation

RA Mimics: Other Forms of Inflammatory Arthritis | October 16, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Keywords: #arthritis #mimics #oa #osetoarthritis #ra #reactive #viral

In this presentation, Dr. Mimi Margaretten, reviews RA mimics, including viral infections, osteoarthritis, and reactive arthritis.

Date added: 10/11/23

Past Presentation

NW Elders ECHO | October 10, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Elders, Knowledge Holders and Culture Keepers

Keywords: #buffalo #buffalo science #elders #indigenous knowledge #indigenous stories #indigenous ways #Native American History #native science #non-humans #personhood #reclaiming #reclaiming systems #rejuvenating traditions #tradition #traditional indigenous knowledge #traditional stories #traditions #tribal identity #tribal traditions

The Northwest Elders and Knowledge Keepers ECHO session took place on October 10th, 2023. In this presentation, Avery S. Old Coyote, MA (Crow & Salish) presents on Buffalo are People Too: Native Science and Non-Human Personhood. The faculty panel and ...

Date added: 10/10/23

Past Presentation

Pediatric Abdominal Trauma | October 11, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #abdominal #gut #pediatric #peds #trauma

In this presentation, Dr. John Bealer, MD, provides a comprehensive overview of pediatric abdominal trauma and its management.

Date added: 10/10/23

Past Presentation

Atopic Dermatitis (Eczema) – Evaluation and Management | October 17, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Dermatology

Keywords: #derm #dermatology #eczema

The Indian Country Dermatology ECHO provides comprehensive information to support Indian Health Service, Tribal, and Urban Indian clinicians to improve dermatologic care and access for American Indian and Alaska Native people. In this session, Dr. Savannah Alvarado, MD, dermatology resident ...

Date added: 10/10/23

Past Presentation

Screening for Hepatocellular Carcinoma | October 18, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hcc #hepatocellular carcinoma

Incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is rising quickly in the United States, and AI/AN people are being affected greater than any other group. In this presentation, Dr. Jon Gerry, surgeon and physician at Franz Liver Cancer Clinic, Providence Portland Medical ...

Date added: 10/7/23

	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