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Training

Ending the Syndemic – An Introduction | December 5, 2023

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, Indian Country ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases at Cherokee Nation, introduces the rationale, program design, leadership policies, and tools that may successfully be used by healthcare providers and tribal decision makers to ...

Date added: 08/10/23

Past Presentation

Case Discussion | August 10, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #care #case #endo #endocrinology #patient

In this session, Dr. Carol Greenlee, endocrinologist, leads a discussion, providing recommendations, considerations, and supporting literature for a case.

Date added: 08/10/23

Past Presentation

Causes of Cognitive Impairment | August 10 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Clinical Dementia

Keywords: #cognition #cognitive impairment #mild cognitive impairment

In this presentation, Dr. Blythe Winchester reviews the criteria for a major neurocognitive disorder and what we should be focusing on when we are evaluating an individual with cognitive impairment including an extensive differential diagnosis.

Date added: 08/10/23

Past Presentation

NW Elders ECHO | August 8, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Elders, Knowledge Holders and Culture Keepers

Keywords: #community stories #elders #history #indigenous knowledge #indigenous stories #indigenous ways #Modern Indigenous Stories #Native American History #stories #story telling #storytelling #traditional indigenous knowledge #traditional stories

The Northwest Elders and Knowledge Keepers ECHO session took place on August 8th, 2023. In this presentation, Pacific Northwest Tribal elder David West (Potawatomi Nation) shares Modern Indigenous Stories. The faculty panel members for this session of the Northwest Elders, ...

Date added: 08/9/23

Past Presentation

Tribal Community Health Programs (TCHP) Launch of Community Health Representative Training and its Pathway into Behavioral Health Aide (BHA), Community Health Aide (CHA), and Dental Health Aide (DHA) | August 8, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Program: CHAP ECHO Learning Collaborative

Keywords: ##DHA #BHA #chr #tchp #tribal community health provider

In this series of presentations, Stephannie Christian, TCHP Education Program Director, provides an overview of the newly launched Community Health Representative (CHR) training program. Then, Carrie Sampson Samuels, CHAP Program Director, provides an overview of the CHR pathway into the ...

Date added: 08/9/23

Past Presentation

A Review of Cannabis and Cannabinoids | August 15, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #cannabinoids #cannabis #CBD #marijuana #THC #weed

In this presentation, Dr. Victoria Fenton, PharmD, provides a comprehensive overview of cannabis and cannabinoids. Dr. Fenton examines the endocannabinoid system and how phytocannabinoids and synthetic cannabinoids work in the body; identifies opportunities for patient counseling focused on cannabinoid pharmacokinetics, ...

Date added: 08/9/23

Past Presentation

Acne | August 15, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Dermatology

Keywords: #acne #derm #dermatology #skin care

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 inaugural session, Dr. Ngan “May” Do, MD, ...

Date added: 08/8/23

Past Presentation

Pediatric Trauma Care | August 9, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Trauma Rounds

Keywords: #children #ed #emergency #pediatric #trauma

In this presentation, Dr. John Bealer, MD, discusses pediatric trauma assessment and initial management.

Date added: 08/8/23

Past Presentation

Patient-Centered Team Based Care | September 14, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Diabetes

Keywords: #care #endo #endocrinology #outcomes #team-based care

In this presentation, Dr. Carol Greenlee, endocrinologist, discusses ways to help improve connected, coordinated & patient-centered care, specifically ways to optimize team-based care. Dr Greenlee reviews the evidence showing how team-based care results in improved outcomes for people with diabetes, ...

Date added: 08/7/23

Past Presentation

Low Dose Buprenorphine Induction | August 3 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #buprenorphine #low dose induction #OUD #patient centered care #pharmacotherapy #substance use disorder #SUD

In this presentation, Dr. Jonathan Robbins, MD, defines buprenorphine microdosing and several protocols for microinduction. Additionally, case studies from both inpatient and outpatient settings are reviewed as well as guidelines for implementation of microinduction in the outpatient setting.

Date added: 08/3/23

	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