Principal Investigators

Aaron E. Bair, MD

UC Davis

Aaron E. Bair, MD, is currently the director of emergency medicine simulation training and disaster preparedness for the Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, . His research interests are focused on procedural competency and computational modeling (patient flow and surge capacity). He is the medical director for the Center for Virtual Care and interim medical director for the Center for Health and Technology.

Ivy Lee, MD

UC San Francisco

Ivy Lee is a board-certified dermatologist and an Assistant Clinical Professor in Dermatology at the University of California San Francisco. Drawing from her research experience in healthy policy as an undergraduate at Stanford University and her research in telemedicine as a patient access tool during her dermatology residency in Washington D.C., Dr. Lee leads the teledermatology practice at UCSF. She has helped implement store-and-forward teledermatology programs in various public health systems in California and continues to provide teledermatology services in California and through the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Teledermatology Volunteerism Initiative. Dr. Lee advocates for the integration of telemedicine as a member of the AADs Ad hoc Task Force for Teledermatology Volunteerism and a member of the AAD Telemedicine Task force.

She is interested in combining her interests in telemedicine and medical education by exploring how best to teach teledermatology, and she is dedicated to providing accessible, high-quality dermatologic care to all patients, regardless of socioeconomic status.

Ira Lott, MD

UC Irvine

Ira T. Lott, M.D. is the Division Chief of Pediatric Subspecialty Faculty (PSF) Neurology and the Medical Director of Neurology at CHOC Children’s.

Dr. Lott is also a Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at the UCI School of Medicine. He was Chairman of the UCI’s Department of Pediatrics from 1990-2000, and since 2000, he has served at UCI as Associate Dean of Clinical Neuroscience.

Dr. Lott graduated from Ohio State University College of Medicine and received his training in pediatrics, neurology and child neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He was clinical director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center for Mental Retardation at Harvard from 1974-1982, and has also served as a clinical research associate at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He is listed in Woodward and White’s “Best Doctors in America.”

Dr. Lott's primary research interest is in the neurology of developmental disabilities. He is the director of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Down Syndrome Society in New York. He received the national research award from the Down Syndrome Society in 2004 and the Christian Pueschel Memorial Research Award from the National Down Syndrome Congress in 2005. In addition, he received the 2005 Spotlight Award from the California State Senate for his work with the developmentally disabled.

Brett C. Meyer, MD

UC San Diego

Brett C. Meyer, MD, is a neurologist at UCSD Medical Center. He is Board certified in Neurology, and subspecialty Board certified in Cerebrovascular diseases, by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He specializes in acute cerebrovascular disease therapies and technological evaluation and treatment techniques. Dr. Meyer completed his Neurology residency at the University of Florida in 2000, and a Cerebrovascular Fellowship at UCSD. He joined the faculty in the Department of Neurology/Division of Neurosciences, and has since been Co- Director of the UCSD Stroke Center, and Director of the UCSD Stroke Telemedicine Initiative.

Dr. Meyer was the Principal Investigator for an NIH funded clinical research trial assessing the use of telemedicine in acute stroke management consultations. This 5 year trial assessed whether the use of telemedicine technologies can result in appropriate treatment decisions for acute stroke and assist with thrombolytic administrations. Dr. Meyer was responsible for overseeing acute stroke teleconsultations at numerous remote spoke facilities through the STRokE DOC trial.

Dr. Meyer has implemented a visiting scholars' program for telemedicine training at the Stroke Center, and has trained multiple fellows in the implementation, deployment, and clinical use of telemedicine technologies. Graduating fellows have successfully implemented telemedicine techniques into clinical practices throughout the USA.

Dr. Meyer is also the Medical Director for the UCSD Department of Telemedicine. In this role, he is responsible for the development and implementation of numerous telemedicine initiatives for multiple specialties throughout the entire medical center and their spoke partnerships.

Dr. Meyer has presented at major academic meetings, and has been published in numerous journals including Lancet Neurology, Stroke, Neurology, The International Journal of Stroke, and The Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. He has been on multiple national advisory boards for telemedicine, and is the co-author of two AHA policy publications on telemedicine implementation and recommendations for telemedicine use in systems of care.

Alan G. Robinson, MD

UC Los Angeles

Alan Robinson, M.D. is the Associate Vice Chancellor, Medical Sciences, and the Executive Associate Dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Since joining the UCLA School of Medicine in 1995, he has focused on maintaining a high quality of research and medical education in the UCLA Medical Enterprise. His many responsibilities include overseeing the budget, FTE and space requirements for new faculty in the basic sciences, and the utilization of information technologies in support of the goals and mission of the School. Dr. Robinson has been a strong advocate of the use of multi-media technologies in medical education and the role of informatics in research. He championed a new requirement that all incoming medical students have a computer. He has made funding available to faculty to hire programmers and technology specialists to assist in the development of interactive curriculum materials. Additionally his office has built a teaching and learning laboratory equipped with individual high-end computer stations and several small multi-media instruction rooms. These and related efforts have paved the way to an entirely web-based curriculum managed by a sophisticated course management system.

Dr. Robinson's efforts to utilize information technologies have led to closer and more productive interactions between the School of Medicine and the clinical Medical Enterprise. Departmentally-based networking was changed to geographically-based networking and now clinical and basic science faculty enjoy a seamless infrastructure that is easily extended where needed. His award from the National Library of Medicine for both IT planning and IT implementation grants under the Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems has had wide-reaching impact on both clinical and basic sciences.

Recently, Dr. Robinson has focused on Telemedicine, and again has championed the role of these technologies in both education and clinical care. His leadership in this area brought to UCLA one of two $500,000 awards from the University of California Office of the President for planning for Telemedicine applications. $19.7 million has been made available to support Telemedicine activities at the UCLA School of Medicine, Charles Drew Medical School, and UC Riverside. Some of these funds are going towards the construction of a Simulation Center that will be available for undergraduate and graduate medical education.

Dr. Robinson's individual research activities include 25 years of funding from the NIH, an extensive publication record in endocrinology and many chapters in standard textbooks for endocrinology and internal medicine.

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