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<p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><strong><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:normal">Greetings,</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><img src="file:///C:/Users/CATHER~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image003.jpg"></span></b></p>
<p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><strong><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:normal">What do Jay Srini, Marcia Brand,
Eric Arzubi, Ana Maria Lopez, and George Demiris have in common? They are all keynote speakers at the
Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center Telelmedicine Conference March
24-26, in Portland, Oregon. They
represent some of the finest expertise in healthcare and telemedicine
today. To learn more you can read a
brief biosketch for each below or visit the NRTRC conference website at <a href="file:///J:/www.nrtrcconference.com">www.nrtrcconference.com</a>.</span></strong></p>
<p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><strong><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:normal">It is not too late to register
for this great conference, and the 10% discount still applies to organizations
registering 3 or more people at the same time. Just go to the conference
website and follow the instructions to register. You won’t find another telemedicine
conference this year with this much knowledge and networking for such a great
price. </span></strong></p>
<p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><strong><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:normal">Register now and join us March
24-26 in Portland!</span></strong></p>
<p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><strong><u><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Keynote
speakers</span></u></strong></p>
<p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Jay Srini</span></strong><span class=""><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">is the Chief Strategist at SCS Ventures
where she is working with international startup companies focused on HIT and
other established organizations to help them with their business development,
health care strategy and expansion. She is also CIO of an
innovative Oncology Management firm KEWGroup. She serves on the board of
Medrespond, Icache and PRHI. She also serves on the advisory board of
several entrepreneurial companies, nonprofit healthcare organizations and
serves as one of the commissioners at CCHIT (Certification Commission of
HealthCare Information Technology) in addition to her role as adjunct faculty
at the University of Pittsburgh. She is
an internationally known speaker in HIT and has chaired several national and
regional HIT conferences in the US.</span></p>
<p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Marcia Brand, Ph.D.</span></strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">, was
named Deputy Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) in March 2009. HRSA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services. HRSA works to fill in the health care gaps for people who
live outside the economic and medical mainstream. The agency uses its $8.1 billion
annual budget (FY 2013) to expand access to quality health care in partnership
with health care providers and health professions training programs. >From 2007-2009, Brand was associate
administrator of HRSA’s Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr), where she provided
national leadership in the development, distribution and retention of a
diverse, culturally competent health workforce that provides high-quality
care. From 2001-2007, Brand was director and associate administrator of
HRSA’s Office of Rural Health Policy. In that position she was responsible for
health policy, research and grant activities that promote better health care
services in rural America.</span></p>
<p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Dr. Eric Arzubi, MD</span></strong><span class=""><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Billings Clinic
in Billings, MT. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale
Child Study Center, providing remote supervision to child and adolescent
psychiatry fellows there using telemedicine equipment. Dr. Arzubi is
especially passionate about crafting innovative models to deliver mental
health services to youth in the K-12 school setting. He is a member
of the Schools Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry and he is a board member of the Billings Chapter of the National
Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)</span>.</span></p>
<p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Ana María López, MD,
MPH, FACP</span></strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> is the
founding Medical Director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program. She
is a medical oncologist, researcher and educator who has dedicated her work to
the amelioration of health care disparities. She has a long standing
commitment to underserved populations and is dedicated to increasing access to
high quality medical specialty care to all communities. Her academic and
clinical interests are focused on cancer prevention, specifically in the area
of women’s malignancies, and in the development of outreach programs. Dr.
Lopez is the principal investigator of several clinical and health service
research studies.</span></p>
<p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">George Demiris, PhD</span></strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> is the Alumni Endowed Professor in Nursing
at the School of Nursing, and Biomedical and Health Informatics, at the School
of Medicine, University of Washington (UW). He is the Director of the UW
Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technologies Program. He obtained his
MSc degree in Medical Informatics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany
and his PhD degree in Health Informatics from the University of Minnesota. His
research interests include the design and evaluation of home based technologies
for older adults and patients with chronic conditions and disabilities, smart
homes and ambient assisted living applications and the use of telehealth in
home care and hospice.</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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