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Charles R. Doarn, MBA, FATA Editor-in-Chief Telemedicine and e-Health Journal Charles R. Doarn is a Research Professor in Family and Community Medicine and Director of the Telemedicine and e-Health Program at the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Doarn holds additional academic appointments in Environmental Health at UC and Emergency Medicine at George Washington University. He is currently on an IPA assignment as Special Assistant to the NASA Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA Headquarters. He is the co-chair of FedTel for the US Government. Throughout the 1990's, Mr. Doarn served as the Program Executive for Aerospace Medicine and Telemedicine at NASA Headquarters. He is the principle author of NASA's Integrated Strategic Plan for Telemedicine. Mr. Doarn serves as one of two Editors-in-Chief of the Telemedicine and e-Health Journal. He has published over 200 manuscripts, editorials, federal reports and 15 book chapters on telemedicine. James B. "Jamey" Edwards, MBA Chief Executive Officer Emergent Medical Associates, Language Access Network, Carenection James (“Jamey”) B. Edwards has been working with Language Access Network since 2008 when, as the CEO of Emergent Medical Associates, he led an investor group in taking the company private. Mr. Edwards headed the team who overhauled the Company’s business model, product delivery and operations resulting in the language services pioneer evolving into the industry leader in unified medical communications and the subsequent spinout of the Company’s video contact center, network infrastructure and IT services team into Carenection, one of the largest telehealth marketplaces in the nation. Prior to joining LAN, he was a member of the Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers. Based in New York, he consummated transactions totaling more than $5 billion for leading companies. Mr. Edwards has been a speaker for the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds and led Investment Banking Workshops at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. His companies have been recognized two times by Modern Healthcare on their Hottest Companies list and by Inc. Magazine four times as some of the fastest growing organizations in the U.S. Ricardo Garcia-Rivera, MD President and Chief Medical Officer NeuroCall Ricardo Garcia-Rivera, MD, serves as Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director at NeuroCall Inc. Dr. GarciaRivera serves as the Chief of Neurology at Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, Florida, and Director of the stroke center of that institution. Under his leadership the hospital became the first center in the greater Miami area to be accredited by the Joint Commission of Accreditation of Hospitals as a Level 1 Stroke Center. Dr. Garcia-Rivera has ample experience in emergency neurological care and emergency stroke management. He has lectured extensively on the subject of emergency neurological care as well as stroke prevention and has been invited to speak in many conferences in Latin America and the Caribbean. He was an emergency physician for over 14 years in various hospitals, ranging from small rural EDs to large inner city hospital level 1 trauma centers such as Jackson Memorial Hospital Emergency Care Center, where he was an attending physician from 1992 to 1994. Dr. Garcia-Rivera received his Neurological training in Tulane University and the University of Miami School of Medicine. Alexis S. Gilroy, JD Partner Jones Day Alexis Gilroy is a partner at the law firm of Jones Day, where she advises health care providers and technology companies on transactional, health regulatory and corporate matters with an emphasis on digital health topics. She has managed numerous strategic merger, acquisition, private equity, venture capital, and joint venture transactions for various healthcare and technology companies, including telemedicine, mobile device, EHR, practice management, cyberknife, imaging centers, and teleradiology. In addition, she advises on business strategy and implementation matters specific to telehealth programs. She is on the Board of Directors of the American Telemedicine Association, is an appointee to the Maryland Governor's Telemedicine Taskforce, a subject matter expert for the Federation of State Medical Boards' (SMART) workgroup on telemedicine, and leader of the American Health Lawyer Association's E-Health and Telemedicine Affinity Group. 20 | Page