Eleventh Annual International Meeting & Exposition
of the American Telemedicine Association
May 7-10, 2006
San Diego Convention Center
San Diego, California

Sponsored by: Center for Health & Technology, Continuing Medical Education, University of California Davis (UC) Health System

Thomas S. Nesbitt, MD, MPH, Executive Associate Dean for Administration and Clinical Outreach, UC Davis School of Medicine, Director, Center for Health and Technology, Sacramento, CA

Dan Kurywchak, Telemedicine Development Manager, Intel Corporation

James P. Marcin, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Pediatric CLinical Care, UC Davis Childrens Hospital

Peter Yellowlees, MD, MBBS. Associate Director, UC Davis Health System

Jana Katz, MPH, Chief Administrative Officer, UC Davis Health System, Sacramento, CA

Kathy Chorba , Operations Manager, UC Davis Health System, Sacramento, CA

Anna Orlowski, JD, Legal Counsel, UC Davis Health System, Sacramento, CA

The UC Davis Center for Health and Technology is a world-recognized telehealth and telemedicine program providing clinical telemedicine services, distance education, telemedicine training, and informatics resources services since 1992. The current UC Davis telehealth network includes over sixty sites throughout California.

By the end of this course, attendees will:

• Be able to define the benefits associated with a number of telehealth applications
• Understand basic technology terminology associated with telemedicine
• Be able to discuss the key legal, regulatory and strategic planning aspects of launching a telemedicine program
• Be able to describe the operational considerations and implementation challenges associated with project management

This course will cover telemental health from the early stages through current state-of-the art. Areas of focus will include various clinical venues such as children, adults, the elderly, and military populations. Emphasis will be on patient selection and clinical assessment via telemental health applications and current research in the field. A panel of telemental health experts will discuss “lessons learned” and demonstrate (role play) a telemental health consultation between clinician and patient using current telemedicine technologies.

By the end of this course, attendees will:

• Better understand the types of clinical applications and considerations that are commonly used in telemental health.
• Be able to describe the practice of telemental health for different patient populations.
• Gain an understanding of operational and implementation issues associated with telemental health.
• Learn the basics to conduct a telemental health consultation.

Faculty:

Eugene F. Augusterfer, LCSW, President, Global Mental Health Network, McLean, VA

Michael Caputo, MS, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Kathy Davis, MS Ed, Pediatric Education Coordinator, Project Manager, Connected Kansas Kids, KUMC Department of Pediatrics/Wyandotte Special Education Cooperative, Kansas City, KS

Terry Rabinowitz, MD, FAPA, FAPM, Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Family Medicine, Director of Telepsychiatry, University of Vermont Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT

Lisa J. Roberts, PhD, Business Manager, Health Innovations and Grants, Viterion, Bellevue, WA

MAJ Brett J. Schneider, MD, Medical Corps, US Army, Chief, Telepsychiatry and Community Psychiatric Services, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

Jay H. Shore, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO

Carolyn Turvey, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Research-MEB, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Peter M. Yellowlees, MBBS, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Academic Information Systems, Center for Health & Technology, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA