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Institute for Digital Health & Innovation: Rural Telehealth Evaluation Center
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    • Year 1 Projects
      • Association of Telehealth Technology and Financial Performance in Rural Hospitals
      • Current State of Telehealth Remote Patient Monitoring
      • Objective Program Examination and Gap Analysis of Telehealth Resource Centers (OPAL-TRC)
      • RTEC Telehealth Broadband Pilot Program Evaluation
      • Summary of Telehealth Definitions: A Scoping Review
      • Summative Examination of Licensure Portability Program (SEAL-LPP)
    • Year 2 Projects
      • An Evaluation of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Utilization on a National Level
      • An Evaluation of Rural/Urban Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on Utilization and Spending through a Health Equity Lens
      • Did State-level Emergency Initiatives to Facilitate Telehealth Help Reduce the Urban-Rural Disparity in Healthcare Utilization?
      • The Effect of Telehealth Implementation on Hospital Financial Performance: An Urban and Rural Hospital Comparison
    • Year 3 Projects
      • Assessing the Impact of Telehealth Delivery on Adherence to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
      • Financial performance of low-resource hospitals adopting telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Prenatal Opioid Use Disorder Treatment delivered through Telehealth and Punitive and Reporting State Policies
      • Telehealth Technology-Enabled Learning Program: Evaluation and Dissemination
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Meet Our Team

Core Team

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Corey Hayes, PharmD, PhD, MPH
Director
cjhayes@uams.edu
Mir Ali, PhD
Senior Data Analyst
mmali@uams.edu
Nahiyan Bin Noor, MS
Data Analyst-Intermediate
nbnoor@uams.edu
Rosario Silva, MPH
Intermediate Data Analyst
rsilva@uams.edu
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Cari Bogulski, PhD
Deputy Director
Deboleena Thakur, MS HCDA
Intermediate Data Analyst
dthakur@uams.edu
KaSheena Winston, MS
Research Program Manager
kdwinston@uams.edu
Hannah McCoy, BA, MPH
Research Associate
hmccoy@uams.edu

RTEC Researchers

Burak Eksioglu, PhD
burak@uark.edu
Sandra Eksioglu, PhD
sandra@uark.edu
Mahip Acharya, PhD
Assistant Professor
macharya@uams.edu
Katy Allison, PhD, MPH
Research Investigator
George Pro, PhD
Research Investigator
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Saleema Karim, PhD
Research Investigator
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Mick Tilford, PhD
Research Investigator
Lu Shi, PhD
Research Investigator
lus@clemson.edu

Student Researchers

Betul Cengil, MS
abcengil@uark.edu

Past RTEC Researchers and Student Researchers

Grishma KC
GKc@uams.edu
Ruchira Mahashabde, MS
rvmahashabde@uams.edu
Maysam Rabbani, Ph.D.
Maysam Rabbani, PhD
Research Investigator
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Anthony Goudie, PhD
Research Investigator
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Catherine Shoults
Student Researcher
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Michelle Hernandez
Student Researcher
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Matthew Najarian
Student Researcher
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Ambrish Pandit
Student Researcher
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Mailing Address: 4301 West Markham Street, Little Rock, AR 72205
Phone: (501) 686-7000
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