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Professor Len Gray

Director
Centre for Online Health
The University of Queensland, Australia

Len Gray is the Professor in Geriatric Medicine, and the Acting Director of the Centre for Online Health, at the University of Queensland, Australia.

He is trained as a physician and as a health administrator. His research interests focus of clinical systems and systems of care delivery for aged care and related services.  There is a special emphasis on e-health and telemedicine. 

He is a Board Member of the interRAI international research collaboration which develops clinical decision support systems for aged care, mental health and disability services.  He currently holds 4 NHMRC grants, all related to service system development and tele-health.

Leif Erik Nohr

Senior Legal Adviser
Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine
University Hospital of North Norway, Norway

Leif Erik Nohr is a lawyer and has worked as a legal adviser at The Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine since 1998. He has participated in both national and international projects, covering many aspects of telemedicine/ehealth and law. He is a member of a Nordic eHealth Forum and a Nordic Network of eHealth law. In 2008/2009 Nohr worked as a visiting academic at the Centre for Online Health, Brisbane, Australia.

Dr Anthony Smith

Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Online Health
The University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Anthony Smith is currently the Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow of the University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health (COH) at the Royal Children’s Hospital. 
Dr Smith has a decade of research experience based on investigations of new telemedicine applications for the benefit of clinicians and patients in regional and remote areas of Queensland.  In 2004, he completed his PhD in the field of medicine, by examining the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of a novel telepaediatric service in Queensland. 

Over the last ten years, the COH has earned international recognition as a pioneer in the field of telepaediatrics (i.e. the delivery of paediatric health services at a distance).  In collaboration with the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, the COH provides routine telepaediatric services for children all throughout Queensland – involving a broad range of specialties including burns care, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, neurology, orthopaedics and psychiatry.

Previously, Dr Smith has had over ten years’ clinical experience as a Registered Nurse specialising in paediatrics and child health.

Dr Pamela Whitten

Dean, College of Communication Arts & Sciences and
Professor, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media
Michigan State University, United of States of America

Dr Pamela Whitten, Ph.D., is Dean of the College of Communication Arts & Sciences at Michigan State University and a Professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media.

Whitten enjoys an international reputation as a leading researcher in the field of telemedicine.  Specifically, her research focuses on the use of technology in health care with a specific interest in telehealth and its impact on the delivery of health care services and education.

Prior to joining the faculty of MSU in 1998, Whitten ran the telemedicine program for the state of Kansas through the University of Kansas Medical Center.

This event has now passed.  The Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland wishes to thank all whom attended and supported the 2009 International Successes and Failures in Telehealth (SFT-09 Australia) Conference.