Gunjan Goel, MBA
Co-founder and
Chief Executive Officer
Amerivitals Telehealth
Gunjan Goel is the Co-Founder and CEO
of Amerivitals, a Phoenix based provider of telehealth and remote monitoring
products and services across the U.S.
More than 50% of medical cases going
to emergency rooms are for minor
health needs resulting in $38 billion in
wasted resources. More than 60% of bankruptcies in the U.S.
are due to medical bills. Amerivitals addresses these issues by
offering medical consultations using its nationwide network
of board certified doctors and nurses through phone and video with prescription benefit 24/7 and across all 50 U.S. states.
Members pay consultation fees as low as $10 per medical
consultation. Using its low cost 24/7 nationwide network
Amerivitals is solving many of the challenges of our
healthcare system – cost, access, and service times.
Donald A. Graf
Director of Telemedicine
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan
Don Graf is the Director of Telemedicine for UnitedHealthcare. He has
worked in healthcare administration
and telemedicine for over thirty years
and has been the Director of Telemedicine for UnitedHealthcare for the past
five. Mr. Graf is responsible for developing and supporting innovative telehealth solutions in Arizona, New Mexico and other markets
where access to care is difficult. Don recently received a national best practice award from Medicaid Health Plans of
America for his work blending creative financing, telemedicine delivery and health information exchange services to
neurologically complex children living on the Navajo Nation.
Mario Gutierrez, MPH
Executive Director
Center for Connected Health Policy
Mr. Gutierrez, who joined CCHP in May
2010 as a senior policy associate, brings
more than 30 years of experience in
California’s non-profit health and
health philanthropy sectors.
Prior to joining CCHP, Mr. Gutierrez
served as a program director with The
California Endowment for 12 years, where he led several major health care initiatives, including its 10-year, $20 million
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investment in telehealth deployment throughout California.
He also served as The Endowment’s lead person for Rural and
Agricultural Worker Health Programs and Policy. Previously,
he served for six years as a senior program officer with The
Sierra Health Foundation. He serves on the Board of Directors
of OCHIN, one of the nation’s largest and most successful non
-profit health information networks.
Mark B. Horton, OD, MD
Director
Indian Health Services/Joslin Vision
Network
Teleophthalmology Program
Dr. Mark Horton received a Doctorate
of Optometry from the University of
Houston in 1973 and MD from the
Uniformed Services University of the
Health Sciences in Bethesda Maryland
in 1982. He completed a residency in
Ophthalmology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in
1986. He was assigned to the Phoenix Indian Medical Center
(PIMC) in 1986 and served in several leadership roles including Chief of the Eye and ENT Departments from 1994-2012.
Dr. Horton was appointed to develop and direct a national
teleophthalmology program for the Indian Health Service in
1999. This program became the IHS/JVN Teleophthalmology
Program beginning clinical deployments in 2001, and now
with 96 deployments in 25 states. Other telemedicine activities include The American Telemedicine Association (Ocular
Telehealth Standards, Ocular SIG), DICOM Workgroup 9
(Ophthalmology), and the Integrating Healthcare Enterprise
(Eye Care). Dr. Horton is the author of multiple journal articles
and book chapters on ophthalmology and telemedicine. He
retired his commission in the USPHS after 27 years of duty in
2000, and continues his federal service as a civilian employee
of the Indian Health Service in Phoenix, Arizona.
Tim B. Hunter, MD, MSc
Retired Professor, Medical Imaging
and Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Arizona
College of Medicine
Tim B. Hunter, MD, MSc, is former
chairman of the Department of Radiology at The University of Arizona College of Medicine and has been a UA
faculty member for 33 years. Dr.
Hunter received his medical degree
from Northwestern University in 1968. After serving in the
U.S. Navy from 1969 until 1971, he completed his residency in
diagnostic radiology at the University of Michigan in 1974. He
joined the faculty here in 1975 and now serves as a professor