[TAO] NRTRC Conference - Don't Miss Out!!

[Catherine Britain]

*Greetings,*

*What do Jay Srini, Marcia Brand, Eric Arzubi, Ana Maria Lopez, and George
Demiris have in common?  They are all keynote speakers at the Northwest
Regional Telehealth Resource Center Telelmedicine Conference March 24-26,
in Portland, Oregon.  They represent some of the finest expertise in
healthcare and telemedicine today.  To learn more you can read a brief
biosketch for each below or visit the NRTRC conference website at
www.nrtrcconference.com <file:///J:/www.nrtrcconference.com>.*

*It is not too late to register for this great conference, and the 10%
discount still applies to organizations registering 3 or more people at the
same time. Just go to the conference website and follow the instructions to
register.  You won't find another telemedicine conference this year with
this much knowledge and networking for such a great price. *

*Register now and join us March 24-26 in Portland!*

*Keynote speakers*

*Jay Srini* is the Chief Strategist at SCS Ventures where she is working
with international startup companies focused on HIT and other established
organizations to help them with their business development, health care
strategy and expansion.   She is also CIO of an innovative Oncology
Management firm KEWGroup. She serves on the board of Medrespond,  Icache
and PRHI. She also serves on the advisory board of several entrepreneurial
companies, nonprofit healthcare organizations and serves as one of the
commissioners at CCHIT (Certification Commission of HealthCare Information
Technology) in addition to her role as adjunct faculty at the University of
Pittsburgh.  She is an internationally known speaker in HIT and has chaired
several national and regional HIT conferences in the US.

*Marcia Brand, Ph.D.*, was named Deputy Administrator of the Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in March 2009. HRSA is an
agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  HRSA works to
fill in the health care gaps for people who live outside the economic and
medical mainstream. The agency uses its $8.1 billion annual budget (FY
2013) to expand access to quality health care in partnership with health
care providers and health professions training programs.  From 2007-2009,
Brand was associate administrator of HRSA's Bureau of Health Professions
(BHPr), where she provided national leadership in the development,
distribution and retention of a diverse, culturally competent health
workforce that provides high-quality care.  From 2001-2007, Brand was
director and associate administrator of HRSA's Office of Rural Health
Policy. In that position she was responsible for health policy, research
and grant activities that promote better health care services in rural
America.

*Dr. Eric Arzubi, MD* is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the
Billings Clinic in Billings, MT.  He is also an Assistant Clinical
Professor at the Yale Child Study Center, providing remote supervision to
child and adolescent psychiatry fellows there using telemedicine
equipment.  Dr. Arzubi is especially passionate about crafting innovative
models to deliver mental health services to youth in the K-12 school
setting.  He is a member of the Schools Committee of the American Academy
of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and he is a board member of the Billings
Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

*Ana María López, MD, MPH, FACP* is the founding Medical Director of the
Arizona Telemedicine Program.   She is a medical oncologist, researcher and
educator who has dedicated her work to the amelioration of health care
disparities.  She has a long standing commitment to underserved populations
and is dedicated to increasing access to high quality medical specialty
care to all communities.  Her academic and clinical interests are focused
on cancer prevention, specifically in the area of women's malignancies, and
in the development of outreach programs.  Dr. Lopez is the principal
investigator of several clinical and health service research studies.

*George Demiris, PhD* is the Alumni Endowed Professor in Nursing at the
School of Nursing, and Biomedical and Health Informatics, at the School of
Medicine, University of Washington (UW). He is the Director of the UW
Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technologies Program. He obtained
his MSc degree in Medical Informatics from the University of Heidelberg,
Germany and his PhD degree in Health Informatics from the University of
Minnesota. His research interests include the design and evaluation of home
based technologies for older adults and patients with chronic conditions
and disabilities, smart homes and ambient assisted living applications and
the use of telehealth in home care and hospice.







-- 
Catherine S. Britain, Program Director
Telehealth Alliance of Oregon
csbritain at gmail.com
541-910-7366
www.ortelehealth.org
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