Telemedicine and Telehealth in Movement Disorders

Dr Mohamed is a Psychiatrist Neuroscientist. He earned his medical degree from Menoufia Medical School, Egypt and his research doctorate degree from the Penn State University, USA. After finishing his training in the neurosurgery department, he started his career as a clinical pharmacologist with psychopharmacology as a subspecialty. Currently, he is an assistant professor in IIUM, Malaysia as well as he is a doctorate student in cognitive psychology, IIUM, Malaysia. His translational brain research targets the investigation and development of novel treatment for AD and PD using rat, mice, and Zebra Fish animal models. Dr. Christine D. Esper is a neurologist in Atlanta, Georgia and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University Hospital. She received her medical degree from University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Mitra Afshari, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor of Neurology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, the newest member of the Faculty in the Section of Movement Disorders. She is originally from Chicago, where she completed her undergraduate, medical school, and residency training at Northwestern University. She completed her fellowship in Movement Disorders at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she received comprehensive training in neurostimulation and neuromodulation for various Movement Disorders. During medical school, she also obtained her Masters’ in Public Health and traveled to Mexico, India, and Uganda for both clinical and research-related trips.Clinically, Afshari is adept at making decisions as it pertains to deep brain stimulation candidacy and programming, as well as performing botulinum toxin injections for dystonia, including limb injections. In addition to seeing patients, her primary research interests lie in Parkinson’s Disease, as it pertains to epidemiology, biomarkers, and clinical trials; deep brain stimulation therapy and other interventional therapies for advanced Movement disorders; telemedicine, teleneurology, and telerehabilitation; and palliative/supportive care in advanced Parkinsonian disorders.

SECTION-I: PRINCIPELS OF TELEMEDICINE, AND TELEHEALTH
1. Telemedicine, and Telehealth: principles, Strategies and applications
2. Standards and Guidelines in Telehealth: Creating a Compliance and Evidence-Based Telehealth Practice
3. USA Federal and State policies of telehealth reimbursements
4. Legal and regulatory implication of Telehealth
5. Telehealth patient portal: opportunities and realities
6. Globalization of telemedicine
7. Ethical aspect of telemedicine
8. Telehealth Technology, Information, and Data System Considerations

SECTION-II: TELEMEDICINE, TELEHEALTH AND MOVEMENTS DISORDERS
9. Telemedicine and Movement disorders
10. Telehealth in pediatric neurology
11. Smart and Assistive Technologies for Movement Disorders: Wearable healthcare
12. eLearning: Distant Learning for Health Professionals
13. Health Education: Teaching Healthy Lifestyles for a High Quality of Life in Movement Disorder
14. Telehealth: A patient perspective
15. Telemedicine and Precision medicine for personalized healthcare for Movement Disorder
16. Mobile health sleep technologies for Movement Disorders

SECTION-III: TELEMEDICINE, AND TELEHEALTH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
17. Telemedicine, Telehealth In Developing Countries: Challenges And Hopes
18. Advances to improve telehealth in developing countries
19. Telemedicine and Movement disorders in special circumstances: war, conflicts, disasters, battlefield
20. Future trends in healthcare technologies