The Pivotal Role of Telehealth in Disaster Response

Have you thought about how you can leverage telehealth for disaster response efforts?  

Telehealth program principals will guide this presentation, emphasizing the significance of telehealth within a comprehensive healthcare delivery system, highlighting these programs’ crucial roles in ensuring universal access to safe, high-quality healthcare services. Participants will be guided through the everyday application of existing telehealth programs, with a special focus on their adaptability to provide assistance following a CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high yield Explosives) or other surge event.

Presented by: 

• Michael J. Carr, MD, FAEMS, FACEP – Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Section of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
• Alexander Isakov, MD, MPH – Principal Investigator, SRDRS
• Matt Lyon, MD, FACEP- Service Chief, Virtual Care, Augusta University Health
• Michael A. Ross, MD, FACEP, FACC – Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine