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sinai alumni association, and is also actively director of statistic core in the cardiac ct reading Brad Tritle, CIPP, is director of business
involved in the teaching of fellows and residents at center at the los angeles biomedical research development at Vitaphone usa corporation, las
cedars-sinai medical center. institute. dr. li is a member of numerous societies, Vegas, nevada, where he has responsibilities for
including society of cardiovascular computed development and promotion of new chronic disease
Scot Anderson, RN, MBA, is manager of the tomography (scct), the scientific research society management programs. he is active in himss,
telemedicine service center (tsc) at Vitaphone (sigma Xi) and contributing editor of the Journal of chairing the social media task Force, a member
usa corporation, las Vegas, nV, where he has Public health and epidemiology. dr. li’s research of the econnecting with consumers committee,
management responsibilities for remote monitoring has focused on three major areas in cardiovascular President-elect of the arizona chapter (azhimss),
and patient engagement services for over 8,000 epidemiology and prevention: 1) Genetic and contributing editor of the himss book Engage!
patients per year. anderson also plays a leading epidemiology and prognosis of coronary heart Transforming Healthcare through Digital Patient
role in development of new chronic disease disease; 2) clinical trials aimed at cardiovascular Engagement. tritle is co-founder of ehealth nexus,
management programs, including monitoring risk factor modification and progression/regression a health information services firm, and is on the
parameters, and enrollment and educational of atherosclerosis; 3) large-scale population- advisory boards of several for-profit and non-profit
materials, as well as serving as the compliance based longitudinal and intervention studies of organizations, including the health record banking
officer. Prior to Vitaphone, anderson held roles of cardiovascular risk factors. alliance and the arizona telemedicine council.
regional director – operations and Program director Prior to Vitaphone, tritle held chief executive roles
at the national healing corporation, and served as Marco Wohnig is President of Vitaphone usa at ehealth trust and arizona health-e connection,
director of business development and marketing at corporation, las Vegas, nevada, where he has and was a consultant to numerous organizations,
st. anthony’s memorial health centers. overall responsibilities for the strategies and including the hhs office of the national coordinator
operations of this remote patient monitoring and for health it (onc)
Michael Neumann, MD, has 35 years of experience digital patient engagement firm, which currently
practicing both internal and cardiovascular medicine monitors 8,000 patients per year in the us. Prior to
in private practice, and is affiliated with cedars- Vitaphone, Wohnig held a variety of chief executive,
sinai medical center. he graduated from the sales and marketing positions with firms bringing
heinrich-heine university dusseldorf (aKa university innovative solutions to the international healthcare
of dusseldorf). marketplace, including richard Wolf medical
instruments corporation, ondal usa, and heraeus
Dong Li, MD, PhD, is a senior research analyst and medical, inc.

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