SPS 2018 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
• Amanda Aguirre, MA, RD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Regional Center for Border Health, Inc., Yuma, AZ
• Joseph S. Alpert, MD
Editor in Chief
The American Journal of Medicine
• Richard S. Bakalar, MD, FATA
Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
ViTel Net, McLean, VA (based in Denver, CO)
• Joel E. Barthelemy
President and Chief Executive Officer
GlobalMed, Scottsdale, AZ
• Rashid Bashshur, PhD
Senior Advisor for eHealth (Retired)
Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Terry Boulanger
Executive Director
New Mexico Telehealth Alliance, Albuquerque, NM
• Anne E. Burdick, MD, MPH
Associate Dean for TeleHealth
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
Associate Vice President for Health Equity, Outreach
and Interprofessional Activities
Professor & Chair, Community, Environment & Policy Department
Walter H. Pearce Endowed Chair & Director, Arizona Center for Rural Health
Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
The University of Arizona Health Sciences, Tucson, AZ
• Charles R. Doarn, MBA
Editor-in-Chief, Telemedicine and e-Health Journal
Family Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
• Alexis S. Gilroy, JD
Partner
Jones Day, Washington, DC
• Jason Goldwater, MA, MPA, PMP
Senior Director
The CedarBridge Group, LLC, Laurel, MD
• B. Tilman Jolly, MD, FACEP
Chief Medical Officer
SOC Telemed, Reston, VA
• Nathaniel Lacktman, JD
Partner & Chair, Telemedicine Industry Team
Foley & Lardner, LLP, Tampa, FL
• Deb LaMarche
Associate Director
Utah Telehealth Network, Salt Lake City, UT
• Ronald C. Merrell, MD, FACS, FATA
Editor-in-Chief, Telemedicine and e-Health Journal
Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
• Alan Pitt, MD
Professor of Neuroradiology, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ
• Sarah N. Pletcher, MD, MHCDS
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Assistant Professor of Medicine
Giesel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
• Ronald K. Poropatich, MD
Executive Director, Center for Military Medicine Research
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
• Pedro C. Ramos, MD
Chief of Telehealth in Mexico
Professor and Researcher at Telecom-CIDE (Center for Economic Research
and Teaching)
Chief Editor, Journal of the Asociación Iberoamericana de Telesalud y
Telemedicina, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
• Karen Rheuban, MD
Director, Center for Telehealth
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
• Alan Roga, MD
President, Provider Market
Teladoc, Lewisville, TX
• Nancy A. Roget, MS, MFT, LADC
Executive Director/Project Director/Co-Director
National Frontier and Rural Telehealth Education Center (NFARtec)
Mountain Plains ATTC-Region 8
Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT)
School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
• Jay H. Sanders, MD, FACP, FACAAI, FATA
Chief Executive Officer, The Global Telemedicine Group, McLean, VA
Professor of Medicine (Adjunct), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Founder and President Emeritus, American Telemedicine Association
• Jay H. Shore, MD, MPH
Director of Telemedicine, Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
• Debbie Voyles, MBA HOM
Corporate Director, Virtual Health
Ballad Health, Johnson City, TN
Telemedicine Telehealth Service Provider Summit
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