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Past Presentation

Congenital Syphilis | October 15th, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #congenital #diagnosis #syphilis #treatment

In this series of presentations, Dr. Melanie Taylor, Medical Epidemiologist for the CDC and Captain with the United States Public Health Service, highlights best practices for responding to the rise of congenital syphilis rates in Indigenous communities. Dr Taylor provides ...

Date added: 07/29/24

Past Presentation

Syphilis Treatment, and Pharmacological Prevention | October 1st, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Syphilis ECHO

Keywords: #diagnosis #syphilis #treatment

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, MD, FACP, Indian Country ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services (CNHS), provides an overview of the basic principles for syphilis treatment, early syphilis and late ...

Date added: 07/29/24

Past Presentation

Syphilis Clinical Manifestations and Diagnosis | September 17th, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Syphilis ECHO

Keywords: #diagnosis #laboratory #syphilis #treatment

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, provides an overview of how to identify and stage syphilis early and late syphilis, and how to understand the manifestations of neurosyphilis, and ocular ...

Date added: 07/29/24

Past Presentation

Laboratory Diagnosis and Interpretation | September 3rd, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Syphilis ECHO

Keywords: #diagnosis #laboratory #syphilis #treatment

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, provides a clinical update on how to order the correct diagnostic tests for syphilis diagnosis, understand reverse algorithm testing, use testing to guide management ...

Date added: 07/29/24

Past Presentation

A Syndemic Approach: Syphilis Prevention | August 20th, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Syphilis ECHO

Keywords: #harm reduction #holistic #prevention #syndemic #syphilis #treatment

In this series of presentations, Jessica Leston, MPH, and Jessica Rienstra, PMHNP, highlight a syndemic approach for syphilis prevention and control. They provide an overview of syphilis prevention strategies, including education, risk reduction, screening, treatment strategies, and partner notification/contract tracing, ...

Date added: 07/29/24

Past Presentation

Introduction to Syphilis (Syphilis 101) | August 6th, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Syphilis ECHO

Keywords: #management #primary care #Screening #syphilis #treatment

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, MD, FACP, Indian Country ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services (CNHS), provides an overview of human treponematoses, a brief history of syphilis, and an introduction ...

Date added: 07/29/24

Past Presentation

Suicide Assessment in the ED | August 19, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS

Keywords: #assessment #ed #emergency #er #rural #suicide

In this presentation, Christopher Will, BCPMHNP, provides a comprehensive overview of suicide assessments in the Emergency Department (ED).

Date added: 07/29/24

Past Presentation

Cultural Assessments Tools and Tribal Specific Ways | July 25 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO

Keywords: #biomedical #cognitive impairment #cultural #naturalistic #personalistic

In this representation and discussion (originally shared 7/27/23) Dr. Neil Henderson (Oklahoma Choctaw), PhD, Indian Country ECHO lead faculty member and Professor Emeritus of Medical Anthropology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus, discusses cultural assessment tools. He ...

Date added: 07/26/24

Past Presentation

Journey to Health ECHO | July 25, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #*wholistic health #aian #american indian #children and youth #culturalconnectedness #HANDS #healing #Hoodtocoast #HTC #HTCRelay #indigenous #Indigenousrunners #Nativerunners #Nativerunning #npaihb #spiritofrunning #teamHANDS #wellness

In this presentation, Birdie Wermy, MPH, BS (Southern Cheyenne), discusses the "Spirit of Running with Team HANDS (Healthy Active Natives Doing Something) and Cultural Connectedness".

Date added: 07/25/24

Past Presentation

Training

Management of SUDs: Clinical Application & Key Pearls | July 23, 2024

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #buprenorphine #chronic #harm reduction #opioid #OUD #patient-centered #pcp #primary care #suboxone #SUD #use disorder

In this presentation, Dr. Wei Sum Li, MD, provides an extensive, provider-focused overview of the management of substance use disorders as a chronic disease in the primary care setting. Dr. Li discusses the clinical importance of accurate patient-centered language and ...

Date added: 07/23/24

	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