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Past Presentation

All Things Thorax: Trauma | October 16, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

In this presentation, Mateo Garcia, MD, discusses blunt force thoracic trauma pathologies and appropriate treatment as well as providing a review of penetrating force thoracic trauma pathologies and appropriate treatments.

Date added: 10/20/25

Past Presentation

Postural Orthostasis-Tachycardia Syndrome and Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia | October 20th, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Cardiology

Keywords: #cardiac #heart #ist #outpatient #pots

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 pathophysiology of Postural Orthostasis-Tachycardia Syndrome and Inappropriate ...

Date added: 10/20/25

Past Presentation

Federal Indian Law and Reproductive Healthcare Access | October 20, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #emric #federal #healthcare access #legislation

In this presentation, Drs. Palm and Wegman explore the foundations of Indian Law as it relates to reproductive healthcare, examine key federal laws that shape healthcare delivery in tribal contexts, and highlight resources that support understanding of tribal, state, and ...

Date added: 10/17/25

Past Presentation

Training

Ending the Syndemic – Syphilis and HIV | December 2, 2025

Type: Past Presentation Training

Audience: Clinical

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program

Keywords: #disease #elimination #epidemic #hcv #hiv #sti #SUD #syndemic #syphilis

In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, introduces the rationale, program design, leadership policies, and tools that may successfully be used by healthcare providers and tribal decision makers to develop and enhance programs to address the syndemic of interrelated disease states ...

Date added: 10/16/25

Past Presentation

Fungal Frontiers: Navigating Implantation Mycoses and Vulvovaginal Candidiasis | October 16, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Infectious Disease

Keywords: #avian #covid #fungal #hiv prep #implantation mycoses #infectious diseases #influenza #measles #vulvovaginal candidiasis

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jon Iralu, provides an overall infectious disease clinical update focusing on COVID-19, avian influenza, measles, and HIV PrEP. Then, Dr. Dallas Smith reviews the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of Implantation Mycoses and Vulvovaginal Candidiasis through ...

Date added: 10/16/25

Past Presentation

The Month in Virology Clinical Update | October 15, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Virology

Keywords: #covid #vaccines #virology #virus

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases at Cherokee Nation, and Dr. Harry Brown, ECHO faculty member and Medical Epidemiologist for the United South and Eastern Tribes Tribal Epidemiology Center, provide ...

Date added: 10/13/25

Past Presentation

Hearing Loss and Dementia | October 9, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO

Keywords: #audiology #hearing #hearing and dementia #hearing loss

In this presentation, Dr. Laura Byerly discusses the prevalence of hearing loss among older adults and its far-reaching effects on quality of life, mood, and memory. She will explore the growing body of evidence linking hearing loss to cognitive decline ...

Date added: 10/9/25

Past Presentation

Cannabis and Dementia: Cause? Treatment? What do we know? | September 11, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO

Keywords: #aging #cannabis #elder care #THC

In this presentation Dr. Maureen Nash explores the complex relationship between cannabis use and brain health, particularly in the context of dementia. Attendees will gain a better understanding of what dementia is and why cannabis use matters in this population. ...

Date added: 10/8/25

Past Presentation

Healthy Nutrition | August 14, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO

Keywords: #Mediterranean diet #nutrition

In this presentation, Dr. Elizabeth Eckstrom discusses practical ways to spot and address lifestyle habits that may increase the risk of dementia. She also explains what makes the Mediterranean-style diet so beneficial for the brain and offers tips on how ...

Date added: 10/8/25

Past Presentation

Cognitive Supplements | July 10, 2025

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO

Keywords: #Brain Health #dementia #supplements

In this presentation Dr. Alexis Garcia Coan describes the historical-cultural context of three cognitive supplements with more relevance to Indian Country: ginseng, fish oil, and echinacea. She provides a review of the evidence supporting the use of common supplements marketed ...

Date added: 10/8/25

	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