Ms. Waldorf also serves as an expert witness in negligent
credentialing cases. She received her BS degree in
Accounting from NC Wesleyan College.
Andrew Watson, MD, MLitt, FACS
Vice President of Clinical Information
Technology Transformation, University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center
President, American Telemedicine Association
Andrew Watson, MD, is a fourth-
genera tion surgeon and the eighth surgeon in his
family. He earned his master’s degree at the University
of Oxford, studying 17 th century baroque architecture,
and attended medical school at the Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons. He did his surgical
training and fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center (UPMC). He is an actively practicing
colorectal surgeon specializing in minimally invasive
inflammatory bowel diseases and complex reoperative
abdominal surgery. He is the primary surgeon in the IBD
medical home at UPMC. He actively uses and helps to
develop telemedicine at UPMC, with a focus on remote
patient monitoring, and has personally done over 500
virtual consults including pre-operative, post-operative,
tele-rounding, intra-operative, and remote patient
monitoring. He blends his career working for UPMC
International, Insurance Services, and Health Services
Divisions to practice and help envision the transformation
of healthcare, with a focus on remote patient monitoring.
He is the President of the American Telemedicine
Association.
Ronald S. Weinstein, MD, FCAP,
FATA
Director
Arizona Telemedicine Program
patented, and commercialized robotic telepathology and
is often referred to as the “Father of Telepathology.” He
has served as president of six professional organizations
including the American Telemedicine Association (ATA).
In addition to being President Emeritus of the ATA, 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.
Lee A. Wood
Executive Vice President and General Manager,
Physician Services
InTouch Health
As Executive Vice President and
General Manager, Physician Services,
Lee Wood brings 25 years of
experience in healthcare and hospital management,
finance, and business development to InTouch Health.
Throughout his career, Mr. Wood has worked closely
with physicians and organization leaders across multiple
sites and in multiple states in developing and managing
physician provider networks, servicing both inpatient and
outpatient practice populations. Prior to joining InTouch
Health, he held business development and operations
positions with Columbia/HCA, AmeriPath, and, most
recently, MEDNAX, Inc., where he was the Regional Vice
President of a 12-state region for the national physician
group. He received his bachelor’s degree from Texas
Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, TX.
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Ronald S. Weinstein, MD, is the
founding director of the Arizona
Telemedicine Program. He received
his medical degree from Tufts Medical School, in
Boston, and is a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-
trained pathologist. He is regarded as a pioneer in both
telemedicine and telepathology. While a 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,
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