The T-Health Institute was established by the
University of Arizona, in 2003, as a Phoenix
division of the Tucson-headquartered Arizona
Telemedicine Program. Located on the
Phoenix Biomedical Campus in downtown
Phoenix, T-Health’s mission is to offer
telemedicine and telehealth training programs
and to create “next-generation” innovations in
education and health-care delivery, especially
those that leverage advances in medical
informatics, wireless telecommunications,
telemedicine/telehealth, simulation, and
robotics. Ronald S. Weinstein, MD, is the
founding director of the Arizona Telemedicine
Program and executive director of its T-Health
Institute.
The T-Health Institute’s international awardwinning T-Health Amphitheater was designed
by Dr. Weinstein and former executive
director of Biomedical Communications
Richard McNeely. It serves as a University
of Arizona College of Medicine “e-Classroom
of the Future.” Experimental education
programs, including an innovative medical
science curriculum for K-12 students and
Interprofessional Education and Practice
(IPEP) exercises, are tested in the T-Health
Amphitheater. Staff at the T-Health Institute
also are engaged in translational research
on the development of a next generation
of clinical decision support systems. The
focus of interest is the acute management
of traumatic brain injury and sudden cardiac
death. This is in support of the Arizona
Emergency Medicine Research Center –
Phoenix.
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