Eugene F. Augusterfer is the President of the Global Mental Health Netowrk. Current projects include: The U.S. Air Force Telemental Health Program, The Harvard University Program in Refugee Trauma, The Vanderbilt University Emergency Preparedness & Response Program, The United Nations Program in Humanitarian Relief (East Africa), The World Bank Program in Post-Conflict States (Africa), World Economic Forum, (Geneva, Switzerland) Wellness Program, Diamond Healthcare Corporation (Telemental Health & Military Liaison), Disaster Knowledge Management System (a private healthcare think-tank addressing resiliency).
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Alexander Vo, PhD, Executive Director, AT&T Center for Tele, University of Texas Medical Branch
Alexander H. Vo, PhD, is the executive director of the AT&T Center for Telehealth Research and Policy at UTMB. In that role, he is responsible for building a center of excellence in telehealth research. His duties entail managing sponsored programs in experimental telehealth, performing outcome studies, and undertaking policy development in the areas of telemedicine, telehealth, and technology-supported medicine. He has consulted for a number of organizations in the areas of program evaluation, research, and program management and has presented on telehealth at conferences and at the national level.
Christina M Hassija, MA, Research Assistant, Center for Rural Health Research and Education
Christina Hassija is a clinical psychology graduate student at the University of Wyoming (UW). She is also a research assistant for UW’s Center for Rural Health Research and Education and therapist for the Wyoming Trauma Telehealth Treatment Clinic. Her research interests lie primarily within the area of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), specifically with regard to factors related to risk and resiliency following trauma and treatment. With regard to treatment for trauma and PTSD, her research focuses on identifying barriers to dissemination and evaluating the feasibility and efficacy if providing evidence-based practices using tele-health technologies to connect rural and frontier populations.
Peter F. Hu, MS, CNE, Chief Technologist & Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine & R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Peter Hu is Assistant Professor of Program in Trauma and Department of Anesthesia, University of Maryland School of Medicine and Chief Technologist for Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. Prof. Hu has over twenty five years of field system development and integration experience. He has designed the statewide real-time vital signs data collection network for patient VS collection from the field to the bedside.