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Headache | September 5, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Keywords: #Cluster #ICP #infection #Migraine #Tension #Toxicity #trauma #Vascular

In this presentation, Dr. Chris Root discusses the pathophysiology of headaches, how to recognize different types of headaches and how to recognize high risk features of headaches.

Date added: 09/5/23

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Policy and Legislation Updates and Impacts Discussion | September 5 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Harm Reduction

Keywords: #Harm Reduction policy #Oregon Measure 110

In this presentation and discussion, Haven Wheelock shares on the Oregon State Senate Bill 1043, updates to Measure 110, and the concepts included in House Bill 2395.

Date added: 09/5/23

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Rheumatoid Arthritis Foundations | September 11, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Keywords: #arthritis #ra #rheumatoid

In this presentation, Dr. Jennifer Mandal introduces this 10-week Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) ECHO cohort series, in collaboration with the Rheumatology Access Expansion Initiative. Furthermore, Dr. Wendy Grant provides an overview of RA, reviews existing epidemiology data as it relates to ...

Date added: 09/5/23

Past Presentation

Native Boost Early Childhood Education Training | August 31, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #children #communication #pediatrics #vaccination #vaccine

The August MCH ECHO clinic focused on the new Native Boost Vaccine Confidence Training for Early Childhood Educators & Staff. Presenters for this session included team members from the Native Boost Project at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, ...

Date added: 08/30/23

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Training

Operational Innovations | September 28, 2023

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #ems #operational innovations

In this series of presentations, Dr. Chelsea White, MD, NRP, Emergency Physician and Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of New Mexico where he serves as EMS Faculty and as Director of the UNM Center for ...

Date added: 08/29/23

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Training

Expressing and Exercising Tribal Sovereignty for Self-Sustainability | September 28, 2023

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #self-determination #tribal sustainability

In this presentation, Jared Etl, former TCHP Communication Coordinator at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, shares on cultural health, what it is, and how we interact with it. There have been many sacrifices and the suffering that was ...

Date added: 08/29/23

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Training

Innovations in Recruitment and Pathways | September 28, 2023

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #emergency department #er #healthcare roles #positions

In this series of presentations, Carrie Sampson-Samuels, CHAP Program Director at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, Sasha Jones, CHAP Program Manager at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board and Dr. Valerie Dobiesz, Director of the Front Line ...

Date added: 08/29/23

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Training

Innovations for Institutional Turnover: A panel discussion | September 28, 2023

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #emergency department #er #healthcare roles #positions

In this series of presentations, Dr. Paul Charlton, IHS Chief Clinical Consultant for Emergency Medicine, and Dr. Dan Schnorr, Emergency Medical Director for the San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation, lead a discussion focused on innovations for institutional turnover in rural ...

Date added: 08/29/23

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Training

Cultural Health Knowledge in Emergency Medicine: Addressing the Opioid Crisis | September 28, 2023

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #cultural knowledge #opioid

In this presentation, Dr. Melanie Nadeau, Interim Chair, Graduate Program Director and Assistant Professor of Indigenous Health at the University of North Dakota, shares cultural knowledge in emergency medicine when addressing the opioid crisis. Then, Dr. Emily Bartlett, emergency medicine ...

Date added: 08/29/23

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Training

Cultural Health: What is it and how do we interact with it | September 28, 2023

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #historical trauma #trauma

In this presentation, Reno Charette, Aseto’ne Project Director at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, and Sheryl B. Livingston, Behavioral Health Specialist with the Emergency Department at Gallup Indian Medical Clinic, share on cultural health, what it is, and how ...

Date added: 08/29/23

	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