Telemental Health in Resource-Limited Global Settings

Edited by Hussam Jefee-Bahloul, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Edited by Andres Barkil-Oteo, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, and Edited by Eugene F. Augusterfer, Director of Telemedicine for the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT)

Hussam Jefee-Bahloul, MD is currently an assistant professor at UMass school of Medicine and lecturer at Yale School of Medicine department of psychiatry. Dr. Jefee-Bahloul had graduated medical school from Tishreen University, Syria in 2006 and moved to the U.S in 2009 to start adult psychiatry residency training in the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas. He moved to Yale School of Medicine for training in Psychosomatic Medicine, and then Addiction psychiatry. Currently Dr. Jefee-Bahloul serves as a medical director to Addiction consultation services at UMass. Dr. Jefee-Bahloul's academic interests are: Global mental health, refugee mental health, trauma and addiction, cross-cultural psychiatry and the implementation of telemental health in conflict and disaster settings. Dr. Jefee-Bahloul conducts research in the U.S and the Middle East.

Dr. Andres Barkil-Oteo is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, and currently a psychiatrist consultant with Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Previously at Yale he was the Medical Director of Acute Care Services at Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven CT where he was involved in coordination and provision of mental health services to a large Iraqi refugee population, and undocumented immigrants in New Haven. Dr. Barkil-Oteo's work focuses on using technology to increase capacity of non-specialists to deliver effective and high-quality mental health care in low-income settings. He is the co-founder of the Syrian Tele-mental Health Network. His writings have appeared in Lancet, Lancet Psychiatry, JAMA psychiatry, and his work has been featured on ABC News and Huffington post.

Eugene F. Augusterfer, LCSW, is Director of Telemedicine for the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) and a core faculty member of HPRT's Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Program. He helped develop HPRT's innovative model that addresses the need for sustainable care in post-disaster areas through the use of telemedicine, including mobile technology. Augusterfer is also involved in the broader field of telemedicine as Chair Emeritus of the American Telemedicine Association Mental Health Group, where he has been instrumental in the design and implementation of telemedicine programs for a number of organizations, including government agencies and private industry. He maintains a clinical psychotherapy practice and is a founding member of Georgetown University Medical Schools McLean Psychiatric Study Group, the World Bank Global Mental Health and Psychosocial Working Group (founding member and co-leader), and the World Economic Forum Wellness Initiative in Geneva.

Eugene F. Augusterfer, LCSW
Director of Telemedicine
Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
Cambridge, MA

Matthew Bambling, PhD
PG Coursework Director
The University of Queensland School of Medicine
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Andres Barkil-Oteo, MD, MSc
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Jessica Becker, MD
Department of Psychiatry
Massachuessetts General Hospital
Harvard School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Sisira Edirippulige
Senior Lecturer
Centre for Online Health
The University of Queensland
Princess Alexandra Hospital
Brisbane, Australia

Pablo Fernandez, PhD Candidate
School of Psychology
University of Queensland
Australia

Chris Fore, PhD
Director, TeleBehavioral Health
Center of Excellence
Division of Behavioral Health
Indian Health Service
Oklahoma State University
Albuquerque, NM

Juan Rodriguez Guzman, MD
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Hussam Jefee-Bahloul, MD
Assistant Professor
Addiction Psychiatrist
Andres Barkil-Oteo
Lecturer at Global Mental Health Program
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Rasmus Christian Jørgensen
Graduate student in Psychology
and Informatics
Roskilde University
Roskilde, Denmark

Sujit John, MA
Assistant Director
Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF)
Chennai, India

Rune Weise Kofoed
Graduate student in Game Design
IT University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark

James Lavelle, LICSW
Co-Founder, Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
Cambridge, MA

Maurice Mars, MBChB, MD
Professor and Head of TeleHealth
College of Health Sciences
University of KwaZula-Natal
Durban, South Africa

Rohana B. Marasinghe, PhD
Senior Lecturer
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Sri Lanka

Maurice Mars, MBChB
Professor and Head of TeleHealth
College of Health Sciences
University of KwaZula-Natal
Durban, South Africa

Richard F. Mollica, MD, MAR
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director, Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
Cambridge, MA

Davor Mucic
Little Prince Treatment Centre
Copenhagen, Denmark

Niklas Skov Pape

Tammi-Marie Phillip, MD
Child Study Center
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Kotteswara Rao, MPhil
Senior Community Mental Health Coordinator
Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF)
Chennai, India

Jay Shore, MD, MPH
Native Domain Lead
Veterans Rural Health Resource Center
Salt Lake City, UT

Shawn S. Sidhu, MD
Associate Training Director, Rural and Community Training
UNM General Psychiatry Residency Program
Assistant Medical Director, UNM-HIS
Telebehavioral Health Center of Excellence Contract
Assistant Professor
University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Division of Community Behavioral Health
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Erin Tansey, MD
Attending Psychiatrist
Minneapolis, MN

Rangaswamy Thara, MD, PhD, FRCPsych (Hon)
Director
Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF)
Chennai, India

Hsui-Hsin Tsai, RN, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Nursing, College of Medicine
Chang Gung University
Department of Psychiatry
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

Dora Wynchank, MD
PsyQ Expertise Center, Adult ADHD
The Hague, Netherlands

Sinclair Wynchank, MA, C Eng, MB, ChB, MD, DPhil
Strategic Health Innovation Partnerships
Medical Research Council of South Africa
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa

Zakaria Zayour, MD
Department of Psychiatry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas