September 2025
9/12: The Impact of Rehabilitation in the Medical Management of Oncology Patients
Trudi Mingus, MS, CCC-SLP
Three Rivers Physical Therapy; Missoula, MT
University of MT; Missoula, MT
Trudi has been practicing as a medical speech-language pathologist since 2016. She first specialized in neurorehabilitation and dysphagia (swallowing disorders). In 2020, she received her oncology rehabilitation certification and head and neck oncology rehabilitation certification from the Physiological Oncology Rehab Institute. She practices with the head and neck cancer population, providing swallowing and voice therapy, lymphedema management, and myofascial release services. Trudi works at Three Rivers Physical Therapy, Community Medical Center. She is honored to teach for the Physiological Oncology Rehabilitation Institute and University of Montana Speech, Language, Hearing, and Occupational Health department. Trudi utilizes evidence-based intervention and has witnessed the impact rehabilitation services have in improving the quality of life after and during the trauma of a cancer diagnosis and treatment.
9/19: An Ounce of Prevention: U=U, PrEp and PEP in 2025
Gretchen Snoeyenbos Newman, MD
Director, WSU Adult HIV Program
Assistant Professor, Infectious Disease
Wayne State University
Gretchen Snoeyenbos Newman, MD, is an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University (WSU). She is the Director of the WSU Adult HIV Program, which includes Tolan Park Clinic, Detroit's safety net clinic for people with HIV (PWH), and the Michigan AIDS Education and Training Center. She completed medical school and residency at Emory University and an Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of Washington. Her research stems from her clinical work and focuses on the implementation of existing and novel models of care for PWH and developing the clinician workforce to address the syndemics of HIV, STIs, and viral hepatitis.
9/26: Human Trafficking: In Plain Sight
Casssandra Roose Wammen, MD
Family Medicine Residency of Western MT; Missoula, MT
Dr. Cassandra Roose Wammen is a third-year Family Medicine resident with a deep-rooted commitment to behavioral health and full-spectrum medicine. A former Fulbright grantee to Belgium and Gilman International Scholar to Morocco, Dr. Wammen brings a globally informed perspective to her work in community and clinical settings.
Prior to her medical training, she worked as a crisis responder with CARE7, working weekend graveyard shifts alongside police and fire through the 911 emergency response system in the Phoenix and Tempe metropolitan areas. In this role, she was dispatched to a wide range of critical incidents, including homicides, suicides, child abuse and neglect, human trafficking operations, and cases of physical and sexual assault.
Dr. Wammen has also worked within the Arizona Department of Corrections, teaching maximum-security inmates and tutoring GED students in a lower-security yard at the all-male Eyman and Florence State Prisons. Her diverse experiences reflect a longstanding dedication to working with underserved and high-risk populations.
With a foundation in both community intervention and academic excellence, Dr. Wammen continues to pursue a career at the intersection of medicine, human behavior, and social justice.
October 2025
10/3: Talk Saves Lives-An Introduction to Suicide Prevention
Tracy Rassley
Programs Manager
American Society For Suicide Prevention
Tracy Rassley is the Programs Manager for the Montana Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). After a 24-year career as a paralegal and nearly seven years of volunteer service with AFSP, Tracy has now served in her current role for three years.
She has delivered numerous AFSP training programs, including Talk Saves Lives: An Introduction to Suicide Prevention; Caring Communities; Finding Hope; It’s Real: Teens and Mental Health for High School and Middle School Students; and It’s Real: College Students and Mental Health. Tracy is also a certified Youth Mental Health First Aid Trainer, equipping communities with tools to support young people in crisis.
Her passion lies in educating teens and college students, believing that meaningful change in mental health attitudes will come from empowering youth.
10/10: Topic--Congenital CMV
10/17: TBA
Chris Jons, MD
St Patrick Hospital
Missoula, MT
10/24: TBA
Kelley Lockhart, MD
Community Medical Center
Missoula, MT
10/31: Management of the Patient at High Risk for Breast Cancer
Angela Pallesi, MD
Community Medical Center
Missoula, MT
November 2025
11/7: TBA
Stephanie Dimitroff, PhD
University of MT
Missoula, MT
11/14: Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
Dillon Morris, MD
Community Medical Center
Missoula, MT
Dillon Morris, MD, a board-certified general surgeon with advanced fellowship training
in minimally invasive, robotic, and advanced gastrointestinal surgery, specializes in hernia
repair and abdominal wall reconstruction, as well as hiatal hernia and anti-reflux surgery,
gallbladder and biliary disease, colon resection, bariatric surgery, skin and soft tissue surgery, and
small bowel resection.
11/21: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Matt McNutt, FNP, DWC, WCC
Community Medical Center
Missoula, MT
11/28: Holiday-No Presentation
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