Lord Roger Swinfen, Co-Founder and Co-Director, The Swinfen Charitable Trust
The Lord Swinfen is an elected Hereditary Peer, and as such a member of The House of Lords. Together with his wife, Pat, he founded The Swinfen Charitable Trust, in 1998. The Trust was established to assist poor, sick and disabled people in the developing world by establishing telemedicine links between hospital-based practitioners in the developing world and expert medical and surgical specialists who generously give free advice via the Internet. Since it started, the Trust has provided telemedicine consultations to patients in over 35 countries. Lord Swinfen is also Hon. Research Fellow of the Centre for Online Health at the University of Queensland and co-author of a number of papers on telemedicine. He is a Member of the Steering Committe of the Catastrophes & Conflict Forum of the Royal Society of Medicine, London and UK Patron of World Orthopaedic Concern. Lord Swinfen visited Iraq in 2004 with the 1st MOET (Management of Obstetric Emergency & Trauma) team in April 2004
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David Fletcher, MBA, Program Manager, ANGELS, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
David Fletcher, Program Manager, has Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees. He has worked for over 10 years in financial analysis in the healthcare industry, including two years at the Wal-Mart corporate office working to design and build a third party billing system for their Vision Centers. He then worked five years for Electronic Data Systems, the fiscal agent for the Arkansas Medicaid program, as a financial analyst examining recipient and expenditure data. He is now working with UAMS and the Arkansas Department of Human Services as a program manager in the ANGELS program.
Jenevra Foisy RN, BSN has four years of experience as a staff RN in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and has approximately one year of experience as Telehealth Coordinator. She is a memeber of NANN, Academy of Neonatal Nursing, AACN, and ATA. She is a member of the Nursing SIG for ATA.
Ms.Maly is the Director of Practice and Program Development for Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) in Allentown, PA. Mary Beth recently completed a 2-year fellowship with LVHN, where she developed several telehealth projects, including securing a $144,000 grant for telehealth infrastructure and leading the implementation of Teleinterpretation.