Resource Library - Indian Country ECHO

In this presentation, Dr. Gwendolyn Grant reviews glucocorticoids and NSAIDs and their role in the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Additionally, Dr. Grant cautions on the use of opioids for RA, and discusses the implications of diet and obesity.

Date added: 02/23/23

Past Presentation

Hepatitis B Medications | February 22, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #hbv #hbv treatment #hepatitis b

In this presentation, Dr. Paulina Deming, ECHO faculty member and Associate Professor of Pharmacy at the University of New Mexico Sciences Center, discusses the current recommended medications for HBV treatment. She then differentiates between the recommended therapies for HBV. Learn ...

Date added: 02/22/23

Past Presentation

It’s Possible: Virtual Care in Tribal Communities | February 21, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Virtual Care Implementation

Keywords: #tribal communities #VCI #virtual #virtual care

In this presentation,William Shunkamolah, Ph.D. presents on his experience, as a native mental health provider, of tele-behavioral services delivery to a native urban community

Date added: 02/22/23

Past Presentation

Health Impacts of Climate Change: Implications for Emergency Departments in Rural and Indigenous Communities | April 17, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #climate change #ed #health impacts

In this session, a panel of interprofessional faculty provide ED teams an update on the ever-increasing impacts of climate change on human health and our communities, share stories of how it is impacting ED care, how we can address the ...

Date added: 02/21/23

Past Presentation

A Call to Action: Embracing a New Era for Pharmacists in Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Services | March 21, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #disorder #opioid #OUD #pharm #pharmacist #substance #SUD #waiver #x

In this presentation and discussion, CAPT Ted Hall and CDR Teresa Grund discuss the changes in data waiver (x-waiver) requirements, other legislative updates, and the crucial and active role pharmacists may have in Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery ...

Date added: 02/19/23

Past Presentation

Baseline Studies and Considerations Prior to Treatment | February 23, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Keywords: #arthritis #ra #rheaumatoid #treatment #tx

In this presentation, Dr. Jennifer Mandal reviews baseline studies and considerations prior to treating Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Date added: 02/19/23

Past Presentation

Using Traditional Plants and Herbs to Support Breast/Chest Feeding Parents | February 23, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

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

Keywords: #breast milk #breastfeeding #chest feeding #lactation

In this presentation, Roberta Eaglehorse-Ortiz (Oglala Lakota/Yomba Shoshone), Community Health Worker, Full Circle Doula, Lactation Educator, Breastfeeding Peer Counselor, and founder of the Northwest Inter-Tribal Breastfeeding Coalition with over 20 years of experience in Maternal Child health, will lead participants through a ...

Date added: 02/17/23

Past Presentation

Managing Acute Dyspnea | February 16, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Keywords: #asthma #breathing #dyspnea #ems #SOB

In this didactic training Dr. Chelsea White shares the varied presentations of dyspnea in the field and how recognize and treat each scenario following best practices.

Date added: 02/16/23

	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