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Public Health

Public Health. Telemedicine sessions with multidisciplinary teams to interact live with concerns and questions of the local community Public Health Topics. Rehabilitationist Program. Comprehensive Program in area where there are no trained professionals. Multidisciplinary Team.

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Public Health

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  1. Public Health • Telemedicine sessions with multidisciplinary teams to interact live with concerns and questions of the local community • Public Health Topics

  2. Rehabilitationist Program • Comprehensive Program in area where there are no trained professionals

  3. Multidisciplinary Team Dr. Jose Rafols, Occupational Therapy, Florida International University Dr. Paula Madrid, Trauma Psychology, Columbia University Penny Peacock, Hearing Aid Specialist, HEARUSA Raji Doraiswamy, Physical Therapy Valarie Moser, Teacher Visually Impaired, Orientation and Mobility, Lighthouse of Broward Dr. Gaelynn Wolf Bordonaro, Art Therapy, Emporia University, CHART Dr. Ronnie Leavitt, PT, University of Connecticut Dr. Debra Tupe, OT, Columbia University Dr. Helen Masin, Physical Therapy, University of Miami Dr. Linda Stone, Psychology, Early Intervention

  4. Florida International University • Member of the Internet2 consortium • Lead in developing a rehabilitationist curriculum, a revolutionary concept for developing countries which will combine OT,PT,ST,Art Therapy, Early Intervention, Trauma Psychology and Teacher of Visually Impaired and Hearing Impaired

  5. Our First Rehabilitationist Class

  6. South Asian Partners • Association of People with Disability in Bangalore • Manav Sadhna/Gram Shree in Ahmedabad • Occupational Therapy department at Maharashtra University of Health Sciences • Art Therapy department at Stella Maris in Tamilnadu • Art Therapy at Burapha University in Thailand • SEEDS

  7. Goals of Telemedicine for Rehabilitationist Program • Support dynamic interactive lessons among the multiple disciplines • Explore the use of interactive touchscreen kiosks for store and forward lessons • Explore the use of podcasts

  8. Goals of Telemedicine for Rehabilitationist Program • Live sessions will be multilink with multiple Universities in United States and South Asia with our Rehabilitationist students in Port Blair • Testing will also be done via live interactive sessions

  9. Why are the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Important? • Small population, controlled data • Lessons learned will be comparable to other rural and developing regions • Portability

  10. Sangha Officers Hina N. Sharma, M.D., President hsharma@sanghaworld.org Ozzie Bloom, Vice President ozzie@sanghaworld.org T Dev Kumar, Director of Development - South Asia devkumar@sanghaworld.org Josh Bloom, Director of Development – America joshbloom@sanghaworld.org

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