Committee

The Telehealth & Informatics Workgroup's purpose is to ensure effective use of telehealth for practicing surgeons. Project deliverables include best practices documentation for surgical clinical telehealth practices; identifying both state and national advocacy efforts and policy targets that will be necessary to promote infrastructure, uptake, and reimbursement for telehealth services in the U.S.; developing templates for global surgical care that incorporate telemedicine, telementoring, and remote, virtual education to enhance surgical care internationally; drafting questions on telehealth topics for the annual Governors survey; disseminating educational programs on telehealth to the membership through Clinical Congress agenda proposals, policy development and white papers; integrating telehealth into surgical practice; and cataloging innovations in health care delivery technologies to optimize surgical practice.

Questions regarding the Workgroup can be directed to Emily Kalata, Manager, Board of Governors, at ekalata@facs.org or 312.202.5360.

Chair

Board of Governors Telehealth & Informatics Workgroup

Russell K. Woo, MD FACS

Gordon Wisbach, MD MBA FACS

Sundeep Govind Keswani, MD FACS

Pankaj Kumar Arora, MBBS FACS

Mohammad Zain Ghani Hashmi, MD FACS

Caroline Park, MD FACS

Mohamed-Omar Arafeh, MD

Lillian S. Kao, MD FACS

Cherie-Ann Olympia Nathan, MB BS FACS

David Tom Cooke, MD, FACS

Don Selzer, MD FACS

Jay Alan Redan, MD FACS

Vahagn Nikolian, MD FACS

Danielle Walsh, MD FACS FAAP

Niten Singh, MD FACS

Ivan M Vojvodic Hernandez, MD FACS

Amy Liepert, MD FACS

Alan Lewis Wagner, MD FACS

Mark D. Sawyer, MD FACS

Gregory Beilman, MD FACS

Sharon Liebe Bachman, MD FACS

Benjamin S. Brooke, MD PhD FACS

Taejin Song, MD FACS

Wa'el Ali AlNa'ssan, MD FACS

Jay Zhu, MD FACS

Jill Suzanne Whitehouse, MD FACS

Annabel Elizabeth Barber, MD FACS

Eunice Yuee-Dean Huang, MD FACS

Marion Henry, MD FACS

Seth A. Spector, MD FACS

William Charles Spanos, MD FACS

John Patrick Kirby, MD MS FACS

Jyotirmay Sharma, MD FACS

Andrew Rose Watson , MLitt, MD FACS

Heather Leigh Evans, MD FACS

Mohsen Shabahang, MD PhD FACS

Connie Shao, MD

Jessica Liu McMullin, MD

Mark Peterson

Emily Kalata

Kathleen Heneghan, PhD, MSN, RN, FAACE

Kathleen Maruyama

Jackson Folstein

Sameera Ali, MPH

D'arcey Johnson

Clifford Y. Ko, MD FACS

Vinita Mujumdar , MGR, REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Laura Rocha, Assoc, Executive

Lauren Foe

Matthew Coffron

Brian Harper

Christian Shalgian

Jill Sage

Haley Jeffcoat

Rachel Reardon

Amelia West