SPS Leadership
HONORARY CHAIR
HONORARY CHAIR
CO-CHAIR
CO-CHAIR
Jay H. Sanders, MD,
FACP, FACAAI, FATA
Ronald S. Weinstein,
MD, FCAP, FATA
Dale C. Alverson,
MD, FATA
Elizabeth A. Krupinski,
PhD, FATA
President and Chief
Executive Offer
The Global
Telemedicine Group
Director
Arizona Telemedicine
Program
Medical Director
Center for Telehealth
and Cybermedicine Research, University of
New Mexico
Associate Director for
Evaluation
Arizona Telemedicine
Program
NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Joseph S. Alpert, MD
Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Medicine
David C. Balch, MA, FATA
Chief Technology Officer, White House Medical Group,
Washington, DC
Joel E. Barthelemy
Chief Executive Officer, GlobalMed, Scottsdale, AZ
Rashid Bashshur, PhD, FATA
Senior Advisor for eHealth, eHealth Center, University of
Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI
Anne E. Burdick, MD, MPH, FATA
Associate Dean for TeleHealth and Clinical Outreach,
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
Robert “Bob” Burns
Commissioner, Arizona Corporation Commission, Phoenix, AZ
Daniel J. Derksen, MD
Director, Center for Rural Health, Mel & Enid Zuckerman
College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Charles R. Doarn, MBA, FATA
Editor-in-Chief, Telemedicine and e-Health Journal
Family Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Joe G.N. “Skip” Garcia, MD
Senior Vice President, Health Sciences University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ
Robert A. Greenes, MD, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Informatics, College of Health
Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
Paula Guy
Chief Executive Officer, Global Partnership for Telehealth,
Inc., Waycross, GA
Deb LaMarche
Associate Director, Utah Telehealth Network, Salt Lake City, UT
James P. Marcin, MD, MPH, FATA
Professor, Pediatric Critical Care UC Davis Children's Hospital,
Sacramento, CA
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Ronald C. Merrell, MD
Editor-in-Chief, Telemedicine and e-Health Journal, Emeritus
Professor of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University
Thomas S. Nesbitt, MD, MPH
Associate Vice Chancellor and Professor, Family and Community
Medicine, UC Davis Health System, Sacramento, CA
Marta J. Petersen, MD
Medical Director, Utah Telehealth Network, Salt Lake City, UT
Joseph Peterson, MD
Chief Executive Officer and Director Specialists On Call,
Reston, VA
Ronald K. Poropatich, MD, FATA
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Lisa A. Robin, MLA
Chief Advocacy Officer, Federation of State Medical Boards,
Washington, DC
Brian Rosenfeld, MD
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Philips
Telehealth, Baltimore, MD
Jay H. Shore, MD, MPH
Director of Telemedicine, University of Colorado Depression
Center, Aurora, CO
Joseph A. Tracy, MS
Vice President - Telehealth Services, Lehigh Valley Health
Network, Allentown, PA
Wesley Valdes, DO
Medical Director, Telehealth Services, Intermountain
Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT
Nancy L. Vorhees, RN, MSN
Chief Operating Officer, Inland Northwest Health Services,
Spokane, WA
Jill M. Winters, PhD, RN, FAHA
President & Dean, Columbia College of Nursing, Glendale, WI