September 2026
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October 2026
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November 2026
11/27: Holiday-No Presentation
December 2026
12/18: Holiday-No Presentation
12/25: Holiday-No Presentation
January 2026
1/2: Holiday-No Presentation
1/9: Acute Pain Management in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
Ashley Du, PharmD
St Patrick Hospital
Missoula, MT
Ashley Du, PharmD is a first-year pharmacy resident at St. Patrick Hospital. She grew up in Montana and in 2025 graduated from the University of Montana, Skaggs School of Pharmacy program
1/16: HIV care for the Outpatient Provider
George Pope, DO
Family Medicine Residency of Western MT
Kalispell, MT
George Pope is a doctor of osteopathic medicine and is a third year medical resident in Kalispell Montana who through the process of residency has amassed a decent panel of HIV patients and wished to create an educational bank for providers to reference should they unexpectedly inherit or begin taking care of a patient diagnosed with this condition.
1/23: 2026 GOLD Guideline Updates for COPD Management
Brendan Pietz, PharmD
St Patrick Hospital
Missoula, MT
Brendan Pietz is currently a first-year pharmacy resident at Providence St. Patrick Hospital. He graduated from the University of Montana Skaggs School of Pharmacy in 2025. His interests within inpatient pharmacy include infectious disease, acute care, and emergency medicine.
1/30: H. Pylori Infections in Primary Care Settings
Christine Oja, MD
Family Medicine Residency of Western MT
Missoula, MT
February 2026
2/6: Pharmacokinetic Drug Interactions and Pharmacogenomics: A Quick Review
Rose Stahl, PharmD
St. Patrick Hospital
Missoula, MT
Rose Stahl is a first-year pharmacy resident at Providence St. Patrick Hospital. She's originally from Fargo, ND, and earned her PharmD from North Dakota State University School of Pharmacy in May 2025. Her current professional interests are primarily in critical care or emergency medicine.
2/13: Topic-Anticoagulation
Alexis Ziebelman, MD
Family Medicine Residency of Western MT
Missoula, MT
Alexis was born and raised in the tiny town of New York, NY, “the greatest city in the world.” She was fortunate to grow up in a tight-knit neighborhood and Jewish community that made the big city feel cozy and small. She became acutely aware at a young age that the world was not a fair or just place, and that she had an obligation to help be part of the solution. As one who continuously seeks to learn and explore, she lived in Yafo, Israel after high school and found a home as the only American in an all Israeli gap year. she returned stateside to study history and mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania for her undergraduate degree, in the birthplace of our young nation. After graduating, she worked for a few years seasonally outdoors spending summer/fall in the intense White Mountains in New Hampshire and winters in rural Idaho. It was in these years that she fell in love with small places and cemented a desire to return to work in a rural community. She spent a triumphant and challenging 3 months hiking 1717.17 miles of the PCT before starting medical school in Tel Aviv, Israel. Throughout medical school, she enjoyed every clinical rotation too much to choose just one specialty, which naturally led to family medicine. She enjoys hiking, snowboarding, climbing, and generally exploring all mother nature has to offer! She is thrilled to join the FMRWM mishpochah and cannot wait to explore the amazing mountains, rivers, and community Missoula and Montana have to offer and continue medical training in such a unique and special environment!
2/20: Behind the Numbers: The Evolving STI Landscape in Montana
Kristi Aklestad, MSN, RN
Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Bureau
Department of Public Health and Human Services
Helena, MT
Kristi Aklestad, MSN, RN, is a public health nurse with more than 20 years of experience in community health. She holds a master’s degree in public health nursing from the University of North Dakota and currently serves as the supervisor of the STD, HIV, and Viral Hepatitis Programs at the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. Throughout her career, Kristi has been dedicated to improving health outcomes for vulnerable populations across Montana through data-driven practice, collaboration, and prevention-focused strategies. She is passionate about translating data into meaningful action that strengthens public health practice.
2/27: Understanding the Syndemic Drivers of Congenital Syphilis: Barriers and Opportunities for Prevention in Yellowstone, Big Horn, and Rosebud Counties in Montana
Kaitlin Fertaly, PhD
University of MT
Missoula, MT
Al Garnsey
University of MT
Missoula, MT
Dr. Kaitlin Fertaly (she/her) is the Director of Research and Evaluation at the University of Montana’s Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities. Trained as a qualitative social scientist, she holds an MA in Anthropology and a PhD in Geography. Her work sits at the intersection of public health, health systems, and community-engaged research, with an emphasis on rural contexts and populations that have been historically underserved.
Al Garnsey is a Research and Evaluation Associate at the Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities at the University of Montana, primarily serving as a qualitative data analyst. Al’s primary research interests focus on sexual and reproductive health, with particular attention to access to care in rural and under-resourced communities in Montana
March 2026
3/6: Primary Care After The Complicated Pregnancy
Cecilia Heck, M.D
Family Medicine Residency of Western MT
Missoula, MT
Growing up, my days were spent on our small sheep farm on the Bozeman Pass. After high school in Bozeman, I continued onto Carroll College where I received a bachelor’s degree in biology. Shortly after college I was able to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon, Central Africa. For two and a half years I worked in a small village developing projects focused on maternal health in areas such as malnutrition and malaria prevention. This is where my love of medicine grew into a calling, and I was able to return after my service to attend medical school at the University of Washington. I have a passion for working in rural communities and am a graduate of the Targeted Rural Underserved Track (TRUST) at UW. In my free time I love to trail run and cross-country ski with my dog. It is a privilege to return to Montana to practice medicine in the same communities I grew up in.
3/13: A Menopause Primer for Primary Care
Samantha Clark Leadbetter, MD
Family Medicine Residency of Western MT
Missoula, MT
Samantha is a third year family medicine resident at the Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana. She was born and raised in Missoula before moving to Bozeman for college, then Portland, OR for medical school. Within family medicine, she is particularly interested in women's health, prenatal care, and pediatric care. After residency, she plans to move to Seaside, Oregon to practice rural outpatient family medicine.
3/20: Grounded in Trust: Foundations of Psychological Safety in Healthcare
Bonnie Bishop MPH, CHES
Mazi Community Health Consultants
https://www.mazihealth.org/
Bonnie Bishop is a transformation coach, professional speaker, and organizational health strategist with over a decade of experience advancing evidence-based well-being strategies across industries. She has supported mission driven teams through a public and community health lens, from local public health agencies to state and regional healthcare systems.
Bonnie has seen again and again that when people don't feel safe to speak up, the consequences extend far beyond team morale into burnout, medical error, and the erosion of the very humanity that drew providers to this work. She brings a coaching lens rooted in somatic experiencing and body-oriented awareness, grounded in the neuroscience of nervous system regulation and its direct connection to how people communicate, perform, and heal.
She partners with leaders and teams to build cohesive, bold cultures where dignity of risk is honored and every voice is treated as essential to the mission.
3/27: TBA
Talia Sopp, MD
Family Medicine Residency of Western MT
Missoula, MT
April 2026
4/3: Enhancing Care for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities in Montana: A Relational and Systems Approach
Drew Babcock, MS, LAT
Family Medicine Residency of Western MT
Missoula, MT
Drew Babcock, M.S., LAT is proud to be Amskapi Piikani (Blackfeet) on his father’s side and was raised in East Glacier and Browning, Montana. He is a two-time graduate of the University of Montana, earning a Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training and a Master of Science in Health and Human Performance.
With a longstanding commitment to healthcare, he has built a career that bridges athletics, medicine, education, and health equity. He currently serves with the Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana, where he works as a liaison and coordinator connecting the residency with Indian Health Service, Tribal Health, and Urban Indian organizations across western Montana. His work centers on advancing Indigenous health education for faculty and resident physicians, supporting American Indian medical student recruitment, and strengthening workforce and pathway development.
One of the most meaningful aspects of his role has been witnessing residents go on to serve in reservation communities, helping deliver high-quality care to populations—including his own family members—that have historically experienced gaps in care.
In addition to his work with the residency, he is a co-creator of the Indigenous-Led Public Health Summit alongside his close friend and colleague Chelsea Bellon. He also serves on the Indigenous Health Education and Resource Taskforce (IHEART) and the American Indian Medical Education Strategies (AIMES) Alliance, both dedicated to addressing healthcare workforce shortages in Indian Country.
4/10: The Health Burden of a Warming World
Nicole Green, DO
Family Medicine Residency of Western MT
Kalispell, MT
Niky is a third-year family medicine resident at the Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana. She is training on the Kalispell track and has pursued additional training in rural health, obstetrics, and reproductive health. She is particularly interested in the effect that climate change has on rural communities. After residency, she will be joining the Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana as a faculty attending physician.
4/17: Mandatory Reporting of Suspected Child Maltreatment
Leigh McCombs
Child Protection Specialist Supervisor
Leigh is a Child Protection Specialist Supervisor in Missoula, MT. She's been with Child and Family Services Division of Department of Health and Human Services for almost 10 yrs. in a variety of roles.
4/24: Topic: Eating Disorders in Primary Care
Chiara Lawrence, MD
Family Medicine Residency of Western MT
Missoula, MT
May 2026
5/1: Sleep Apneas
Annalise Mann, DO, MPH
Family Medicine Residency of Western MT
Missoula, MT
Annalise Mann is a current third year resident at the Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana. She has worked on interdisciplinary teams across inpatient, outpatient, rural and emergency settings treating both acute and chronic conditions across the lifespan. Annalise is passionate about helping patients achieve and maintain a level of health that allows them to continue those things that nourish their quality of life.