Telemental Health in Resource-Limited Global Settings

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.

1. Introduction to Telemental Health and Its Use In Resource-Limited Settings
Hussam Jefee-Bahloul, MD
2. Telemental Health Modalities: Videoconferencing, Store-and-forward, Web-based, and mHealth
Jessica Becker, MD
3. Telemental Health in Africa
Sinclair Wynchank and Dora Wynchank
4. Telemental Health in South Africa
Maurice Mars, MBChB, MD
5. Telemental Health in the Middle East
Hussam Jefee-Bahloul, MD and Zakaria Zayour, MD
6. Telemental Health in India
Rangaswamy Thara, Sujit John, and Kotteswara Rao
7. Telemental Health Services in Sri Lanka
Sisira Edirippulige and Rohana B. Marasinghe
8. Telemental Health in Taiwan
Hsui-Hsin Tsai
9. Telemental Health Services for Indigenous Communities in Australia: A Work In Progress?
Sisira Edirippulige, Matthew Bambling, and Pablo Fernandez
10. Refugee Telemental Health in Denmark
Davor Mucic
11. Telemental Health Delivery for Rural Native American Populations in the United States
Shawn S. Sidhu, Chris Fore, Jay Shore, and Erin Tansey
12. Telemental Health in Latin America and the Caribbean
Tammi-Marie Phillip, MD
13. Cross-Cultural Telemental Health
Niklas Skov Pape, Rasmus Christian Jørgensen, and Rune Weise Kofoed
14. Telemental Health in Post Disaster Settings
Eugene F. Augusterfer, Richard F. Mollica, and James Lavelle
15. Connecting the World: A Way Forward In Global Telemental Health
Juan Rodriguez Guzman, MD, and Andres Barkil-Oteo, MD, MSc