Stewart Ferguson, PhD, Director, Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network (AFHCAN)
Stewart Ferguson Ph.D. is Director of the Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network (AFHCAN) in Anchorage, Alaska with deployments throughout Alaska, the United States, and multiple other countries. Dr. Ferguson has over twenty years of progressive computer and research experience in academic, industrial, biomedical and business environments. He has been involved in software development for CT scanners, theoretical solutions for the forward and inverse problems in biomagnetism, and imaging techniques for cardiac activity. He currently serves on the Board of the ATA. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering, and B.S. degrees in both Mathematics and Electrical Engineering.
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Thomas S Nesbitt
Candace Shaw
Barbara L Smith, BSN, RN, Administrative Project Manager, ANGELS, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Barbara Smith, BSN, RN has devoted her last six years as Administrative Project Manager serving the Antenatal & Neonatal Guidelines, Education and Learning System (ANGELS) at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. In this role, Mrs. Smith directs and facilitates weekly high-risk obstetrical teleconferences broadcasted throughout Arkansas. With 30 years of nursing experience and 20 years of obstetrical nursing expertise, Mrs. Smith lends her clinical and management skills to strike the delicate balance needed to host a diversity of rural and urban providers seeking distance education delivered through teleconferencing.