Sustainable Telemedicine in Resource Limite Settings: How Can We Network the Networks?
Track
:
Operations, Business & Finance
Program Code:
36
Date:
Monday, May 17, 2010
Time:
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
EST
Location:
217A
MODERATOR
:
Kimberly A. Harris, Corporate Team Leader, Center for Connected Health, Partners Healthcare
Kimberly A. Harris is a Corporate Team Leader with ten years of experience, at the Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare System, Inc, in Boston, MA. She is the program manager of the Connected Cardiac Care Program, an enterprise wide service for non-homebound patients with Heart Failure. She also manages the operations team supporting the Center’s research and program initiatives. She earned a Bachelor of Science from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia with a double major in Biology and Psychology, and Master of Management at Cambridge College. Her interests include the uses of connected health technologies to empower patients and drive behavior changes.
SPEAKER
(S):
Maria Zolfo, MD, Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine
Maria Zolfo, M.D., specialist in Infectious Diseases, she trained in Tropical Diseases at Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, in 1998 and worked from 1999 until 2003 for Medicus Mundi Belgium in Zimbabwe. Since 2003, she has worked at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, in the HIV/AIDS unit, overseas subunit, responsible for the Telemedicine project (http://telemedicine.itg.be), which provides remote-based advice on HIV/AIDS care to colleagues working in low resource settings. She is particularly interested in the topic of AIDS care and continuing medical education in resource-limited settings, PMTCT, PEP, resistance and second-line ARVs, remote consultations, and distance learning.
Tove Sorensen, Head, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Telemedicine & eHealth at Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine
Tove Sørensen is the Head of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Telemedicine and eHealth, at NST Trømso, Norway. In this position, she gives advice to the WHO and its member-states in the area of telemedicine, e-health and e-learning. She has participated in various international projects and study-groups, within the European Space Agency (ESA), the Arctic Council and the European Commission. She has conducted feasibility studies in several resource limited countries. She is the project manager for ‘eHealth Trends’, WHO/European survey on eHealth consumer trends, co-funded by the European Commission, DG Sanco, involving seven European countries.
Richard Wootton is the head of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth and previously director of research and head of the Centre for Online Health at the University of Queensland. He developed a method of automatic message-handling used by the Swinfen Charitable Trust, a global support network for doctors working in hospitals in developing countries. He established a series of multi-author textbooks on telemedicine, published by Royal Society of Medicine Press, of which the latest is Telehealth in the Developing World (eds. Wootton, Patil, Scott & Ho) and he is the Editor of the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare.