Current Employment:
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Director of Quality Improvement
George Washington University George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Washington, DC
Previous Employment:
Medical Director Acute Pain Service, Associate Chief Section of Pain and Palliative Care Medicine
Christiana Care Health System
Newark, DE
Education:
MD Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
AB Harvard College
Post-Graduate Training:
Internal Medicine – Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Anesthesia – Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Pain Medicine – Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Board Certifications:
Internal Medicine
Anesthesiology
Pain Medicine
As an academic physician, Dr. Scott works daily at the George Washington University Hospital training residents and medical students in anesthesia and acute pain management. His specializes in creating treatment systems for non-opioid pain management. He speaks extensively on the opioid epidemic and opportunities to expand and non-opioid pain relief techniques. He is also exploring ways that telemedicine might make state of the art pain management techniques available to patients everywhere, regardless of access to specialists in their hospital.
Amanda Sharp received her MPH degree with a concentration in International Health from Boston University and is a doctoral student in the Public Health Department at University of South Florida. Amanda has extensive experience with interventions based on motivational interviewing and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). She previously worked in opioid overdose prevention at Boston Medical Center’s Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, and currently works as a project manager at Q-consult, LLC overseeing evidence-based initiatives for various healthcare settings.
Beth McCarty Wood is the senior genetic counselor for the Penn Telegenetics Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She began her career at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, specializing in the genetics of cognitive and movement disorders. She received a bachelor degree in biological sciences from the University of Delaware and a master of science in genetic counseling from the University of Pittsburgh. She is board certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling and licensed in the states of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Trained as an Electrical Engineer, University of Maryland, College Park, 1970. Doctor of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 1976. Completed Internal Medicine, University of Hawaii, 1980. Critical Care Fellowship, Wayne State, Detroit, Michigan, 1987.
Involved in Telemedicine for over a decade and a half
8 years, Tele-ICU director, utilizing RoboticTechnology, Bon Secours Hospital, Baltimore. Team that operationalized the first commercial Tele-ICU in the United states in 2002. Co-Author of 5 Chapters dedicated to Telemedicine, Tele-ICU & Billing
Co-author, national Tele-ICU position paper sponsored by the Soc. of Critical Care Medicine.
4 Peer reviewed articles on the topic of telemedicine and Tele-ICU. 8 Telemedicine abstracts. 16 regional and national talks. 6 Years working with the Maryland General Assembly on Telemedicine Legislation. Member, MedChi Legislative Committee for the oversite of all medical related legislation in Md.
Chairman, Clinical Advisory Group for the Maryland Telemedicine Task Force, 2013.
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Trained as an Electrical Engineer, University of Maryland, College Park, 1970. Doctor of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 1976. Completed Internal Medicine, University of Hawaii, 1980. Critical Care Fellowship, Wayne State, Detroit, Michigan, 1987.
Involved in Telemedicine for over a decade and a half
8 years, Tele-ICU director, utilizing RoboticTechnology, Bon Secours Hospital, Baltimore. Team that operationalized the first commercial Tele-ICU in the United states in 2002. Co-Author of 5 Chapters dedicated to Telemedicine, Tele-ICU & Billing
Co-author, national Tele-ICU position paper sponsored by the Soc. of Critical Care Medicine.
4 Peer reviewed articles on the topic of telemedicine and Tele-ICU. 8 Telemedicine abstracts. 16 regional and national talks. 6 Years working with the Maryland General Assembly on Telemedicine Legislation. Member, MedChi Legislative Committee for the oversite of all medical related legislation in Md.
Chairman, Clinical Advisory Group for the Maryland Telemedicine Task Force, 2013.
Ellen Rappaport, MPH, CCHP
Telehealth and ReEntry Director
Wexford Health
Ms. Rappaport’s 25 years of experience includes infectious disease, public health and correctional health as well as the merging of these critical arenas.
In 1997 Ms. Rappaport attained her Master of Public Health Degree from Boston University and began managing projects in two state prison contracts (MA and NJ.) As the Director of Infectious Disease Case Management she was charged with overseeing a multi-disciplinary team who managed the HIV-Co-infected inmate population.
In 2001, Ms. Rappaport relocated to Maryland to join Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine assisting in the expansion their Specialty Telemedicine HIV program to the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. There she worked within the Infectious Disease division at Johns Hopkins and directed the Telemedicine Service for both state and federal correctional institutions in Maryland.
In 2005, Ms. Rappaport joined Gilead Sciences as National Account Manager for a newly created position specific for correctional health providers where she managed a region covering several state contracts. In 2010, Ms. Rappaport was promoted to Senior National Account Manager for Gilead Sciences.
In 2012 Wexford Health was awarded the State contract in Maryland and sought out the expertise of Ms. Rappaport for the expansion of the telemedicine services within the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Ms. Rappaport joined Wexford Health at that time as the Director of Telehealth and Re-Entry. In addition to her role in Maryland she often consults on all Wexford Health contracts related to Telehealth and Reentry nationally.
Ms. Rappaport has been invited to present the details of her various projects at Local, State, National and International conferences.
Dale Floyd, RN, BSN, Med NCSN
Director Health Care Services
North Carolina Juvenile Justice
Director of NC Juvenile Justice Health Services, registered nurse and public health educator with many years of experience in health care including child/community/school health, mental health, substance abuse prevention and community development.
Work settings have included public education, public health, inpatient settings, disaster response preparation and healthcare for youth in juvenile justice. Currently in the role of Director of Health Services with North Carolina Division of Juvenile Justice.
As Director of Health Care Services, responsible for developing internal infrastructure to address juvenile health care needs and to collaborate with coalitions of community members, stakeholders and agency representatives. Juvenile Justice has a particular focus on mental health therapy for youth, enhancing health care competence, substance abuse treatment/counseling, resilience development and re-entry transition/success.
Lawrence Mendel, DO, CCHP
Site Medical Director
Corecivic
Dr. Mendel is the former Medical Director of the Ohio prison system. In 1994 he started a telemedicine program connecting the prison system with Ohio State University. Over subsequent years, the program was expanded to include every state prison. The scope of the program also expanded to incorporate a number of non-medical applications.
He left the Medical Director position in 1999 to work as a telemedicine consultant. In that capacity he worked with organizations in fifteen states to develop telemedicine programs in correctional facilities and community settings. He has written chapters on telemedicine in two books as well as several articles. Since 2011, he has treated correctional patients by telemedicine and currently serves as the Medical Director of a facility in the Kansas City area.
Kristina Rose
Deputy Director
U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime
Kristina Rose is a Deputy Director for the Office for Victims of Crime at the Department of Justice, where she oversees national programming on services for crime victims. She recently returned from a detail as a Senior Policy Advisor on violence against women issues in the Office of the Vice President Biden at the White House. There she provided expert advice and guidance to the White House Advisor on Violence Against Women and the Vice President on domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
Ms. Rose’s career with the Department of Justice has spanned almost 20 years, and has included serving as the Acting Director and Deputy Director for the National Institute of Justice and as the Chief of Staff for the Office on Violence Against Women. As part of a leadership program, Ms. Rose spent 8 months in 2013 as a victim advocate in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, working hands-on with victims of all violent crimes. At DOJ, Ms. Rose has led or been involved in several ground-breaking projects including the first national survey to measure the crime of stalking in the United States; an action research project on untested sexual assault kits that produced national models for jurisdictions around the country; a virtual training on sexual assault forensic exams with Dartmouth Medical School. Ms. Rose also led the development of the first National Sexual Assault TeleNursing Center, which provides real time expert guidance to medical personnel conducting sexual assault forensic exams in underserved areas.
Ms. Rose has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from George Mason University and a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University.
Moderator: William England, PhD, JD
Director
Office for the Advancement of Telehealth / HRSA
William England is the director of the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth in the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy at HRSA. Bill has worked in telehealth for over 20 years, first at CMS/Medicare, followed by 15 years as Vice President of the FCC’s Universal Service Rural Health Care Program. He joined HRSA in June 2016. Prior to working in telehealth, Bill was an assistant professor of Industrial Engineering and Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Fellow in Healthcare Finance, and a Director of Group Health Coop of South-Central Wisconsin. His Ph.D. is in Operations Research from Purdue University and his law degree is from the University of Maryland.
Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Mehrotra’s research focuses on interventions to decrease costs and improve quality of care. Much of his work has focused on innovations in delivery such as retail clinics and e-visits and their impact on quality, costs, and access to health care. He is also interested in the role of consumerism and whether price transparency and public reporting of quality can impact patient decision making. Related work has focused on quality measurement, including how natural language processing can be used to analyze the data in electronic health records to measure the quality of care.
Dr. Mehrotra received his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco and his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Boston. His clinical work has been both as a primary care physician and as an adult and pediatric hospitalist. He also has received formal research training with a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2008, he received the Milton W. Hamolsky Award for Outstanding Scientific Presentation by a Junior Faculty Member by the Society of General Internal Medicine. In 2013, he received the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth for health services researchers early in their careers who show exceptional promise.
Dr. Caudill is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville. He is the Residency Training Director with an interest in optimizing the role of technology in post-graduate medical education and psychiatric patient care. He is also the Director of Telemedicine and Information Technology Programs for the department. Dr. Caudill is the current Chair for the Telemental Health Special Interest Group of the American Telemedicine Association and Co-Chair of the Telehealth Task Group of the National Network of Depression Centers. He serves as a member of the American Psychiatric Association’s Committee on Telepsychiatry.
Dr. Caudill completed his psychiatric residency at the University of Louisville, where he was a Chief Resident, President of the Psychiatric Residents’ Association and recipient of the Schwab Award for Academic Excellence. Dr. Caudill received his board certification in psychiatry in 1995. He lectures on topics related to technology, community psychiatry, and psychopharmacology. Along with his faculty appointment, Dr. Caudill serves as a staff psychiatrist with several community mental health agencies in Kentucky and is the Director of Telemedicine for the local Community Mental Health Agency, Centerstone of Kentucky.
Dr. Robin Felder is a Professor of Pathology and Associate Director of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Virginia-UVA, and is Chair of Medical Automation.org. Dr. Felder received his PhD in Biochemistry from Georgetown University. He has published over 300 papers, reviews, and chapters, and co-edited 3 textbooks on medical automation. He has been awarded 27 patents and has founded 9 biotech companies, including 2 non-profit organizations including the Association for Laboratory Automation (SLAS) (and its journal JALA) as well as Medical Automation.org. He has received numerous awards including the Engelberger Robotics Award, UVA’s Innovator of the Year Award, and the Annual Research Awards from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), and National Academy for Clinical Biochemistry (NACB).
Panelists: Majd Alwan, PhD
Senior VP of Technology
LeadingAge
Majd Alwan, Ph.D., a noted researcher and authority on aging-services technologies, is LeadingAge’s senior vice president of technology, and executive director of the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST).
Dr. Alwan is responsible for creating and leading a network of technology companies, providers and research institutions focused on technology solutions for an aging society.
The network advances the interests of older consumers, caregivers and providers and fosters opportunities for collaboration between provider organizations, technology companies, and research institutions in exploring product development, testing prototypes, evaluating technology and deploying technology-enabled care models.
Prior to joining CAST, Majd served as an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Robotics and Eldercare Technologies Program at the University of Virginia’s Medical Automation Research Center. His research interests there included passive functional and health assessment, biomedical instrumentation, medical automation, as well as eldercare and assistive technologies.
As a volunteer, Dr. Alwan chaired the Funding Aging Services Technologies committee and the Pilots committee for CAST. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE’s Engineering in Medicine and Biology, and Robotics and Automation Societies, and a member of IEEE-USA’s Medical Technology Policy Committee and the Geriatric Care Workgroup. Alwan also serves on the Alzheimer’s Association’s Work Group on Technology.
Dr. Alwan received his Ph.D. in intelligent robotics from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, a Master’s of Science degree in control engineering with distinction from Bradford University, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Damascus University.
Tom Edmondson, MD, CMD, AGSF, FACP
Physician Director
Philips Hospital to Home
Tom is a Physician Director in Hospital to Home, and is responsible for outpatient clinical solutions.
Dr. Edmondson is a specialist in internal medicine, geriatric medicine, and hospice & palliative medicine, and he is a Certified Medical Director. Following
his fellowship, Tom worked as a clinician, teacher, and as a physician administrator in many settings, including individual facilities such as hospitals, post-acute and long-term care settings, and nursing home chains. As an educator, he has taught physicians in geriatric medicine fellowships and post-graduate physicians in residencies in internal medicine, family medicine, and gynecology from various schools and training programs. He also has experience in training and working with APRNs and Physician Assistants.
Tom has enjoyed taking care of patients in the following settings: a busy general medicine hospitalist
practice, a geriatrics hospitalist practice, a large outpatient practice, a housecalls practice for frail elders and other homebound patients, and patients in post-acute and long-term care settings. Additionally, he has provided inpatient and outpatient consultation in geriatrics and in hospice and palliative medicine.
Clinically, he enjoys taking care of the most complex patients in the settings above, but he also has strong
interests in preventive care, transitions of care, and continuity/coordination of care.
He is a native Texan who graduated from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and he
completed his residency training in internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center followed by completion of an NIH-sponsored fellowship in geriatric medicine and gerontology at
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
In his free time, Tom volunteers with many physician-related organizations at a state and national level,
and he is chair of the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine where he oversees the
nation’s Certified Medical Director credential. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Maryland
Medical Directors Association as the Vice-President, the Baltimore City Medical Society, and the State of
Maryland’s Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators. At AMDA—The Society for Post-Acute
and Long-Term Care Medicine, Tom has served on the Clinical Practice Committee, the Quality Committee,
the Program Committee for the Annual Scientific Meeting as Vice-Chair, and the Online Education
Subcommittee. Tom lectures on a variety of clinical and administrative topics at local, state, and national
scientific meetings for physicians and other clinicians, and he has been awarded Fellowship status in the
American College of Physicians and the American Geriatrics Society.
Najib Ben Brahim, PhD
CEO
Telehealth Management
Dr. Ben Brahim holds a PhD in Systems and Information Engineering from University of Virginia (UVA). He also holds a PhD in Health Biology from the Montpellier School of Medicine in France. He earned an engineering degree from the Higher School of Communication of Tunis and a Master of Science in Healthcare IT from Institut Mines-Telecom in France. Dr. Ben Brahim has spent the past 10 years as a telemedicine fellow in Tunisia, France and the United States. He played a role in organizing national and international conferences around telemedicine in the developing world. Dr. Ben Brahim is the founder of Telehealth Management, a company that is currently working with Health Systems to build a self-sustainable and scalable business model for telehealth through an evidence-based approach.
Dr. Ben Brahim holds a PhD in Systems and Information Engineering from University of Virginia (UVA). He also holds a PhD in Health Biology from the Montpellier School of Medicine in France. He earned an engineering degree from the Higher School of Communication of Tunis and a Master of Science in Healthcare IT from Institut Mines-Telecom in France. Dr. Ben Brahim has spent the past 10 years as a telemedicine fellow in Tunisia, France and the United States. He played a role in organizing national and international conferences around telemedicine in the developing world. Dr. Ben Brahim is the founder of Telehealth Management, a company that is currently working with Health Systems to build a self-sustainable and scalable business model for telehealth through an evidence-based approach.
René is a partner in the Washington, DC office of Cozen O’Connor. He focuses his practice on a range of health care and life sciences matters, with a particular focus on telehealth, digital health, and mobile health matters. In particular René helps stakeholders — including hospitals and health systems, health plans, telemedicine companies, technology companies, and digital health trade associations — handle the various legal, regulatory, and policy challenges impacting telehealth and digital health. His areas of focus include compliance with state and federal laws affecting the practice of telehealth and digital health, such as cross-border licensure, online prescribing, data privacy, risk management, coverage and reimbursement, fraud and abuse, and credentialing and privileging; state and federal legislation involving providers, employers, payers, and telehealth and digital health technology companies; and contract negotiations involving providers, employers, payers, and telehealth and digital health technology companies. He graduated from George Washington University Law School.
Joseph P. (“Joe”) McMenamin is a physician-attorney in Richmond, Virginia. Both his law practice and his consultancy concentrate on and benefit from his twenty years experience in telemedicine. Joe advises institutional and individual telehealth service providers, remote monitoring services, trade associations, telehealth platform companies, private equity firms, and telecoms on a broad array of medico-legal questions arising from distance care. He also publishes extensively and lectures widely on these and related matters.
Before being admitted to the Bar in 1985, Joe had been a university-trained internist and a practicing emergency physician. For many years he represented an array of healthcare clients at a large international law firm before striking out on his own in 2013 to found MDJD, PLC, and McMenamin Law Offices, PLLC.
Joe presently serves as general counsel to the Virginia Telemedicine Network. He is an associate professor of Legal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Medical Information Technology Law Report and of the Legal Resource Team of CTeL, the Center for Telemedicine and eHealth Law. He is Board-certified in Legal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine.
Garret Spargo is Aleut/Unangan, originally from the island community of Sand Point in the Aleutian Region of Alaska. He is the Director of Product Development for the Telehealth department of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) and serves as the Principal Investigator for ANTHC’s Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)-funded National Telehealth Technology Assessment Resource Center (TTAC). He has filled numerous roles at ANTHC since 2000, during which time he also received his BA from Seattle Pacific University (2005) and his MA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (2013). He has been actively involved with the American Telemedicine Association’s Technology and Telemental Health Special Interest Groups, and is involved in the development of online learning materials for the revitalization of the Eyak language as a part of the daXunhyuuga’ eLearning Place.
David Brennan is Director of Telehealth Initiatives for the MedStar Health Institute for Innovation, where he leads efforts to catalyze clinical and research activities focused on connected health and remote service delivery models. He has been actively involved in telemedicine and healthcare innovation for close to 20 years, serving as primary investigator on research and development projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and the United States Departments of Defense and Education. In addition to participation on local and regional telehealth task forces, he is a member of the American Telemedicine Association’s Practice Guidelines Committee. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in biomedical engineering from the Catholic University of America, in Washington DC, where he has served as adjunct faculty member and graduate student advisor.
Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Mehrotra’s research focuses on interventions to decrease costs and improve quality of care. Much of his work has focused on innovations in delivery such as retail clinics and e-visits and their impact on quality, costs, and access to health care. He is also interested in the role of consumerism and whether price transparency and public reporting of quality can impact patient decision making. Related work has focused on quality measurement, including how natural language processing can be used to analyze the data in electronic health records to measure the quality of care.
Dr. Mehrotra received his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco and his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Boston. His clinical work has been both as a primary care physician and as an adult and pediatric hospitalist. He also has received formal research training with a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2008, he received the Milton W. Hamolsky Award for Outstanding Scientific Presentation by a Junior Faculty Member by the Society of General Internal Medicine. In 2013, he received the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth for health services researchers early in their careers who show exceptional promise.
Sarah J. Rhoads, PhD, DNP is a telehealth researcher and educator, emphasizing the human impact of technologies on health care provider roles and patients. Dr. Rhoads is an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine and College of Nursing and the Education Director for the University’s ANGELS obstetrical telemedicine program and the Center for Distance Health. She has been the primary investigator on multiple grants related to telehealth and is the Director of the South Central Telehealth Resource Center which facilitates telemedicine in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. Several of Dr. Rhoads’ research and project grants have focused on the Mississippi River Delta region of the United States. Dr. Rhoads has a passion for improving maternal, neonatal, and pediatric care in rural areas.
As the Executive Director of the Institute for Healthy Air Water and Soil, I develop new partnerships, support citizen scientist projects around the city and manage data analysis projects ranging from health in all policies to air quality. The Institute is leading AIR Louisville, a community asthma project, and Green for Good, an initiative to test the power of plants against air pollution.
I am a writer, editor and content strategist. I have worked in the digital world for 16 years creating content and developing communities. My focus for the last 9 years has been healthcare. I’ve covered the rise of digital health and the impact of healthcare reform.
In my current role, I am developing new partnerships to support sustainable changes to the healthcare system. I also continue write about healthcare and the environment.
Malinda Peeples, MS, RN, CDE
VP Clinical Advocacy
WELLDOC
Malinda Peeples serves as Vice President, Clinical Advocacy, at WellDoc, a digital health company, where she oversees the clinical outreach program, grant and research activities, and professional organization activities. Malinda is a diabetes educator, clinical and informatics nurse specialist who served as President of AADE in 2005-2006. She has provided diabetes education services and program management in private practice, community health, and integrated health systems.
Malinda has presented at numerous conferences nationally and internationally and has been published in The Diabetes Educator, Diabetes Technology and Society, and other peer-reviewed publications. Malinda also serves as Adjunct Assistant Faculty, Division of Healthcare Informatics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Malinda received a Bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of North Carolina in Charlotte and earned a Master’s degree in nursing informatics from the University of Maryland. She also earned a Master’s degree and completed a postgraduate research fellowship in health sciences informatics from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2007.
Jonathan M. Joseph is a partner at the Richmond, Virginia law firm of Christian & Barton, L.L.P., where he serves as the leader of the health care practice group. He focuses his practice on telemedicine and electronic health data storage issues, health care transactions, managed care, compliance issues, fraud and abuse, and HIPAA. Jon also advises clients on Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing matters, medical staff issues, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues and appeals, Certificate of Public Need, and federal health reform issues.
Jon is a past chair of the Health Law Section of the Virginia Bar Association and a former adjunct professor of health law for the Master of Health Administration program at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is an established author—his most recent publication is a 50-state survey of data breach notification laws, and he frequently lectures for national bar and health care organizations.
Jon earned degrees from Boston University School of Law and Middlebury College, and volunteers as a member of the board of a Virginia nonprofit continuing care system.
Cybil Roehrenbeck, JD
Counsel
Polsinelli
Focusing on emerging health care sectors, Cybil Roehrenbeck is dedicated to helping clients achieve their objectives by employing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to their legal and business challenges. She counsels clients on federal legislative and regulatory opportunities in the following areas:
Health information technology
mHealth and telehealth
Precision medicine and genomics
Innovative health care delivery models
Coverage and reimbursement
She also provides counsel on perennial regulatory issues, including fraud and abuse (Stark and
anti-kickback) compliance, competition matters, and audits.
Cybil’s prior experience includes serving as a lobbyist and attorney for the American Medical
Association (AMA), legislative counsel to U.S. Representative Walter B. Jones (R-NC), and
associate with Watts Partners, a government affairs firm led by U.S. Representative J.C. Watts, Jr.
(R-OK).
Cybil works with clients to help them effectively present their values and challenges to Congress
and federal regulators and obtain the best possible results for their businesses. She has had
significant success in securing favorable amendments to federal legislation and regulation,
including obtaining valuable informal guidance and feedback from federal regulators.
Karen Meador, MD
Senior Physician Executive and Managing Director
BDO
Dr. Karen Meador has more than 20 years of clinical and business experience within the healthcare industry and has served in numerous clinical and administrative leadership and advisory roles within healthcare systems. Dr. Meador has expertise in leading collaborative multidisciplinary teams in creating and expanding innovative high quality programs and services that transform clinical care, research and education and that engage physicians and patients through innovative services and programs in both hospital and community settings. She has extensive experience with state Medicaid programs and in advising providers participating in DSRIP and other initiatives. Her work has included designing and implementing cost-saving and quality improvement initiatives for health systems, community health centers, and physician groups She has provided guidance and conducted due diligence for investors in healthcare provider organizations, focusing on clinical quality, operational issues, and billing and compliance matters to reduce risk and increase financial returns. She has also served as a persuasive expert witness successfully representing providers in payment disputes with insurance companies.
While previously at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Medical Center Dallas, Dr. Meador was President of two subsidiary corporations, where she expanded an outpatient primary care network, founded a physician staffing company, developed the business plans and launched an urgent care center and hospitalist program, and served on the leadership team that expanded Children’s Medical Center to a second campus. As Vice President of Research Administration, she led an NIH Funded Pharmacology Research Unit and was responsible for the contracting, financial management, billing, and compliance of over 600 ongoing clinical trials and for the credentialing and oversight of over 100 primary investigators.
Dr. Meador also served as an Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care Pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Natassja Manzanero is a Public Health Analyst at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT). She serves as the Program Coordinator for the Telehealth Resource Center (TRC) Grant Program and serves as the Rural Health IT Policy Lead. She first joined HRSA in November 2010 as a project officer in the Bureau of Primary Health Care for the Health Center Controlled Network Grant Program, and in 2011 she joined the Office of Health IT & Quality as a health IT subject matter expert, before joining FORHP in 2013. Prior to working at HRSA, Natassja was a Health Insurance Specialist at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for 5 years as an account manager for the Medicare Part D Program. Natassja received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Healthcare Management from Towson University, and Master of Science Degree in Healthcare Administration Informatics from the University of Maryland. Natassja is a member and student mentor for the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and college instructor at Bellevue College in Washington for the “Introduction to Electronic Health Records” course.
Speakers
Ateev Mehrotra MD
Associate Professor of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Mehrotra’s research focuses on interventions to decrease costs and improve quality of care. Much of his work has focused on innovations in delivery such as retail clinics and e-visits and their impact on quality, costs, and access to health care. He is also interested in the role of consumerism and whether price transparency and public reporting of quality can impact patient decision making. Related work has focused on quality measurement, including how natural language processing can be used to analyze the data in electronic health records to measure the quality of care.
Dr. Mehrotra received his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco and his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Boston. His clinical work has been both as a primary care physician and as an adult and pediatric hospitalist. He also has received formal research training with a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2008, he received the Milton W. Hamolsky Award for Outstanding Scientific Presentation by a Junior Faculty Member by the Society of General Internal Medicine. In 2013, he received the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth for health services researchers early in their careers who show exceptional promise.
Marcia Ward, PhD
Professor
University of Iowa
Marcia M. Ward, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy, in the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa. She is Director of the Center for Health Policy and Research and Director of the Rural Telehealth Research Center. Her 35 years of research experience focus on rural health services research. Dr. Ward has authored over 100 peer review publications and 25 technical reports. She has been funded on over 70 grants and contracts during her research career and has extensive experience directing research teams and conducting evaluations of healthcare implementation and quality improvement projects.
Elizabeth A. Krupinski, PhD, FSIIM, FSPIE, FATA
Professor
Emory University
Dr. Krupinski is a Professor and Vice Chair for Research at Emory University in the Departments of Radiology & Imaging Sciences, Psychology and Medical Informatics. She received her BA from Cornell, MA from Montclair State and PhD from Temple, all in Experimental Psychology. Her interests are in medical image perception, observer performance, medical decision making, and human factors. She is Associate Director of Evaluation for the Arizona Telemedicine Program. She has published extensively in these areas, and has presented at conferences nationally and internationally. She is Past Chair of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Past President of the American Telemedicine Association, President of the Medical Image Perception Society, and Past Chair of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine. She serves on a number of editorial boards for both radiology and telemedicine journals and is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Telemedicine & Telecare. She serves regularly as a grant reviewer for the NIH, DoD, TATRC and other federal, state and international funding agencies and has served as a member of a number of FDA review panels.
Bonnie P. Britton, MSN, RN, ATAF
Co-founder and Executive Director
Reconnect4Health
Bonnie is recognized as a telehealth pioneer and expert. She has dedicated the past 18 years of her career as a nurse, advancing the adoption and implementation of telehealth both nationally and internationally. Bonnie was the 13th inductee into the American Telemedicine Association’s (ATA) College of Fellows in 2010. Bonnie is a previous ATA Board Member, chaired the ATA Home Telehealth SIG, chaired the ATA Home Telehealth Clinical Guidelines Development Committee, co-chaired the ATA Home Telehealth Satisfaction Item Bank, and member of the ATA Policy, Awards and Nominating Committees. Bonnie has provided expertise to the United Nations Human Settlement Programme, the Ontario Telehomecare Project, Continua Health Alliance: Blueprint for ACA Pilots in Washington DC and the Senate Sub-committee for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Under Bonnie’s leadership, Vidant Health implemented a post discharge remote patient monitoring program at 7 hospitals. In 2 years, the health system experienced a 67% reduction in hospitalizations and a 68% reduction in bed days. Prior to this, Bonnie implemented the first Remote Patient Monitoring program at a Federally Qualified Health Center which in 5 years demonstrated statistically significant reductions in both hospitalizations and bed days.
Bonnie founded Reconnect4Health in 2015 to provide patient centered remote monitoring for patients with chronic conditions who are hi-risk, hi-cost, and vulnerable. Reconnect4Health is a nurse owned company which provides state of the art care management to change the patient’s paradigm resulting in a more engaged health care experience.
Mario Gutierrez is the Executive Director of the Center for Connected Health Policy, the federally designated Telehealth Policy Resource Center since 2012. He is certified as a Principal Investigator by its parent organization, the Public Health Institute based in Oakland, California. Mr. Gutierrez originally joined the staff of CCHP in May 2010 and was appointed its Executive Director in October, 2011. He brings more than 30 years of experience in California’s non-profit health and health philanthropy sectors, and has extensive expertise in federal health policy matters. CCHP is firmly established as an unbiased, highly respected policy leader in telehealth in California and nationally, and has published a number of policy briefs and reports on this subject.
Prior to joining CCHP, Mr. Gutierrez was a Program Director with The California Endowment, a $3.5 billion private health foundation dedicated to improving the health of the underserved of California. While with the Endowment, he led several major “signature” health care initiatives, including a 10-year, $20 million groundbreaking strategy to deploy telehealth services throughout California. Launched in 1998, this initiative included the creation of a telehealth training center at the University of California, Davis Medical Center for staff of safety-net providers, funding for the creation of telehealth “hub and spoke” sites throughout underserved areas of the state, and the creation of the California Telemedicine and e-Health Center (CTEC), a technical assistance and support arm for grantees funded under this initiative. In 2006 CTEC was selected and funded by HRSA/OAT to become California’s first regional telehealth resource center.
Mr. Gutierrez is active on a number of national Boards and Advisory Panels. For the Past six years he has chaired the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) Rural Human Services Advisory Panel RUPRI, which is based at the University of Iowa, has for over 30 years provided unbiased analysis and information on the challenges, needs, and opportunities facing rural America. RUPRI receives funding from HRSA/Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), and, the RUPRI Rural Health Panel Chairman, Dr. Keith Mueller, serves as the Director of the RUPRI Rural Health Policy Analysis Center based at the University of Iowa, School of Public Health.
Mr. Gutierrez also serves on the Board of Directors of the California Telehealth Network, and OCHIN, one of the nation’s largest and most successful non-profit healthcare technology support and technical assistance organizations, with an annual budget exceeding $60 million. It is nationally recognized for its innovative use of Health IT to improve the integration and delivery of health care services across a wide variety of practices, with an emphasis on safety net clinics and small practices, as well as critical access and rural hospitals.
Mr. Gutierrez holds a Masters Degree in Public Health, with an emphasis in Health Planning/Policy, from the University of California, Berkeley; Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Miami; and is fluent in Spanish.
Alan Morgan
Chief Executive Officer
National Rural Health Association
Recognized as among the top 100 most influential people in healthcare by Modern Healthcare Magazine, Alan Morgan serves as Chief Executive Officer for the National Rural Health Association. He has more than 27 years experience in health policy development at the state and federal level, and is one of the nation’s leading experts on rural health policy.
Mr. Morgan served a contributing author for the publication, “Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care,” and for the publication, “Rural Populations and Health.” In addition, his health policy articles have been published in: The American Journal of Clinical Medicine, The Journal of Rural Health, The Journal of Cardiovascular Management, The Journal of Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, Cardiac Electrophysiology Review, and in Laboratory Medicine.
Mr. Morgan served as staff for former US Congressman Dick Nichols and former Kansas Governor Mike Hayden. Additionally, his past experience includes tenures as a health care lobbyist for the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, the Heart Rhythm Society, and for VHA Inc.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from University of Kansas, and a master’s degree in public administration from George Mason University.
Nathaniel Lacktman
Partner
Foley & Lardner LLP
Nathaniel Lacktman is a partner and health care lawyer with the law firm Foley & Lardner LLP. He is the chair of the firm’s Telemedicine Industry Team and co-chair of the firm’s Digital Health Group. He advises health care providers and technology companies on business arrangements, compliance, and corporate matters, with particular attention to telehealth, digital health, and health innovation. His approach to practicing law emphasizes strategic counseling, creative business modeling, and fresh approaches to realize clients’ ambitious and innovative goals. He serves on the Executive Committee of the American Telemedicine Association’s Business & Finance Group, heads the Telemedicine and eHealth Affinity Group of the American Health Lawyers Association, and serves as Chief Legal Counsel to the Telehealth Association of Florida. Mr. Lacktman speaks and writes frequently on issues at the forefront of telehealth, and has helped author telemedicine policy letters and position statements with such organizations as the American Telemedicine Association and the American Heart Association. He has provided comments, draft legislation, and policy input on telehealth to state lawmakers, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Congressional Research Service, state Medicaid Agencies, and state boards of medicine. He has appeared in publications such as Modern Healthcare, Forbes, Fox News, Bloomberg, Reuters, Associated Press, Inside Counsel, Buzzfeed, Politico, and Information Week among others. His work has been recognized in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers, which notes, “Clients are effusive in their praise, with one saying, ‘I would describe Nate as the regulatory guidance expert.’ ” Follow his telehealth law feed on Twitter @Lacktman.
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Thomas H. Scott, MD
Amanda G. Sharp, MPH
Elisabeth McCarty Wood, MS, LCGC
H. Neal Reynolds, MD
Ellen Rappaport, MPH, CCHP
Dale Floyd, RN, BSN, Med NCSN
Lawrence Mendel, DO, CCHP
Kristina Rose
William England, PhD, JD
Ateev Mehrotra MD
Robert Caudill, MD
Robin A. Felder, PhD
Majd Alwan, PhD
Tom Edmondson, MD, CMD, AGSF, FACP
Najib Ben Brahim, PhD
MADALINE B. HARRISON, MD
René Quashie, Esq.
Joseph P. McMenamin, MD., JD.
Garret Spargo
David Brennan
Ateev Mehrotra MD
Sarah J. Rhoads, PhD, DNP
Veronica Combs
Malinda Peeples, MS, RN, CDE
Jonathan Joseph, JD
Cybil Roehrenbeck, JD
Karen Meador, MD
Natassja Manzanero, MS
Marcia Ward, PhD
Elizabeth A. Krupinski, PhD, FSIIM, FSPIE, FATA
Bonnie P. Britton, MSN, RN, ATAF
Mario Gutierrez
Alan Morgan
Nathaniel Lacktman