Gigi Sorenson , RN , MSN
System Director of Telehealth & Community Connected Care Northern Arizona Healthcare
Gigi Sorenson is System Director of Telehealth & Community Connected Care for Northern Arizona Healthcare ( NAH ). She is responsible for the inception of the program , strategic planning , and global operational responsibilities , with NAH acting as both hub and spoke site . She has developed programs in remote monitoring , pre-hospital , outpatient and inpatient care delivery models , and transitions planning using connected care programs . She is actively involved in the American Telemedicine Association as immediate past Chair of the Business and Finance Special Interest Group and is a member of the Arizona Telemedicine Council .
Mark M . Tomaino , MBA , JD
Senior Industry Executive Welsh , Carson , Andersen & Stowe
Mark Tomaino is a Senior Industry Executive at the private equity firm of Welsh , Carson , Anderson & Stowe , where his focus is exclusively on health-care technology investment opportunities , including deal generation , due diligence , execution , and portfolio company monitoring . He has served on the boards of directors of Matrix Medical Network and GetWellNetwork , and is on the strategic advisory boards of Wiser Together , Seamless Medical , Conversa Health , AMC Health , Viimed , and NextHealth Technologies . He established the “ Healthcare IT Knowledge Network ” website as a vehicle to share insights relevant to collaboration in the health-care technology industry . Previously , he was Senior Vice President , Corporate Development and Mergers and Acquisitions at The TriZetto Group , where he initiated the $ 1.4 billion go-private transaction with Apax Partners in August 2008 . Prior to joining TriZetto , he worked at Bausch & Lomb in a variety of legal , strategic , and business development capacities .
Ian Tong , MD
Chief Medical Officer Doctor On Demand
Ian Tong , MD , is Chief Medical Officer of Doctor On Demand . He has spent his entire career working to improve access to high quality care and has continued this work at Doctor On Demand . He is a Clinical Assistant Professor ( Affiliated ) at Stanford University Medical School . Prior to joining Doctor On Demand , he held multiple medical leadership roles , including Stanford Internal Medicine Chief Resident ; Founder and Medical Director of The Health Resource Initiative for Veterans Everywhere ( THRIVE ), which was honored in 2008 with the VA Secretary ’ s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Service to Homeless Veterans ; and Co-Medical Director of the Arbor Free Clinic . He is board-certified in Internal Medicine .
Ronald S . Weinstein , MD , FCAP , FATA
Director Arizona Telemedicine Program Director Southwest Telehealth Resource Center
Ronald S . Weinstein , MD , is the founding director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program . While a Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH ) pathology resident , he participated in rendering diagnoses on some of the first telemedicine cases of the MGH- Logan International Airport telemedicine program in 1968 . Decades later , he turned his attention to telepathology while a pathologist for National Cancer Institute-funded clinical trials . In 1986 , he introduced the term “ telepathology ” into the English language . He invented , patented , and commercialized robotic telepathology and is often referred to as the “ Father of Telepathology .” In addition to being President Emeritus of the American Telemedicine Association , he has received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association for Pathology Informatics and has been inducted into the United States Distance Learning Association Hall of Fame . Dr . Weinstein has over 600 professional publications cited over 10,000 times in the literature .
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