SPS 2017 Leadership
HONORARY CHAIR CO-CHAIR CO-CHAIR
Ronald S. Weinstein, MD, FCAP, FATA Dale C. Alverson, MD, FATA, FAAP Elizabeth A. Krupinski, PhD, FSPIE,
FSIIM, FATA
Director, Arizona
Telemedicine Program
Co-Director, Southwest
Telehealth Resource Center
Medical Director
Center for Telehealth
University of New Mexico
Health Sciences Center
Co-Director
Southwest Telehealth
Resource Center
NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Joseph S. Alpert, MD
Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Medicine B. Tilman Jolly, MD, FACEP
Chief Medical Officer, Specialists On Call, Reston, VA
Richard S. Bakalar, MD
Managing Director, Advisory Services in Healthcare
Solutions, KPMG, LLP, Denver, CO Nathaniel Lacktman, JD
Partner, Foley & Lardner, LLP, Tampa, FL
David C. Balch, MA, FATA
Chief Technology Officer, Vesalius Ventures, Houston, TX
Joel E. Barthelemy
President and Chief Executive Officer, GlobalMed, Scotts-
dale, 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,
Professor of Dermatology, University of Miami Miller
School of Medicine, Miami, FL
Robert “Bob” Burns
Commissioner, Arizona Corporation Commission,
Phoenix, AZ
Daniel J. Derksen, MD
Professor and Walter H. Pearce Endowed Chair,
Community, Environment & Policy Director, Arizona Center
for Rural Health, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public
Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
James P. Marcin, MD, MPH, FATA
Professor, Pediatric Critical Care, UC Davis Children's
Hospital, Sacramento, CA
Ronald C. Merrell, MD
Editor-in-Chief, Telemedicine and e-Health Journal, Emeritus
Professor of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, VA
Randall Moore, MD, MBA
President, Mercy Virtual, Chesterfield, MO
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
Alan Pitt, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Avizia, Phoenix, AZ, and Professor of
Neuroradiology, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ
Ronald K. Poropatich, MD, FATA
Executive Director, Center for Military Medicine Research,
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Charles R. Doarn, MBA, FATA
Editor-in-Chief, Telemedicine and e-Health Journal
Family Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Karen Rheuban, MD, FATA
Director, Center for Telehealth, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA
Joe G.N. “Skip” Garcia, MD
Merlin K. DuVal, MD, Endowed Chair for Leadership and
Innovation, Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ Jay H. Sanders, MD, FACP, FACAAI, FATA
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Global
Telemedicine Group, McLean, VA
Alexis S. Gilroy, JD
Partner, Jones Day, Washington, DC
Paula Guy
President and Chief Executive Officer, Salus Telehealth,
Waycross, GA
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Jay H. Shore, MD, MPH
Director of Telemedicine, University of Colorado Depression
Center, Aurora, CO
Nancy L. Vorhees, RN, MSN
Interim Executive Director, Spokane Teaching Health
Center, Spokane, WA