News

April 23, 2012

Dr. Rex Gantenbein, CRHRE director, will attend the American Telemedicine Association's annual meeting in San Jose, California this year to present a poster entitled "Innovative Policies for Developing a Statewide Telehealth Network."  For more information on the ATA meeting, visit www.ata2012.com. The poster is available on the Reports and Publications page.

Dr. Gantenbein is also presenting an invited paper on "Telehealth-Based Collaboration among Primary and Behavioral Health Care Providers in Rural Areas" at the 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems.  The conference will be held in Westminster, Colorado, in late May.  For more information on the conference, visit cts2012.cisedu.info.  The paper is available on the Reports and Publications page.

April 20, 2012

Dr. Bob Wolverton, research scientist in the CRHRE, has accepted a position as the new project director for the Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center (NRTRC).  The NRTRC, located in Billings, Montana, provides technical assistance in developing telehealth networks and applications to serve rural and underserved communities in the northwestern US.  Bob will begin working at the NRTRC in May and will move to Billings this summer.  His new email address is bob@nrtrc.org. 

October 20, 2011

We're pleased to announce that, through the CRHRE's efforts, the UW Foundation has received a grant of $16,311 from the Verizon Foundation.  The funds will help to support the Wyoming Telehealth Trauma Treatment Center, a project directed by Dr. Matt Gray in the Department of Psychology.  The center uses doctoral candidates in the Clinical Psychology program to provide counseling services for victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse in three locations throughout the state via videoconferencing.  The Verizon Foundation funds will allow the center to expand the number of clients that can be served by hiring an additional counselor; in addition, the CRHRE is providing the center with a second videoconferencing unit for the counselors to use when working with clients in the remote sites.