About the Center

Internationally recognized, the UC Davis Center for Health and Technology promotes an atmosphere of collaboration and innovation.  Under the long-term leadership of Thomas S. Nesbitt, M.D., M.P.H., the center has become one of the nation’s leading telehealth programs.  It offers a unique group of services that include telemedicine, education, innovation and research.  Nesbitt serves as director of the center in addition to being Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Technologies and Alliances. He founded the university’s original telemedicine program in 1992 as a way to improve quality of care and overcome the geographic health disparities he often saw as a physician specializing in family and community medicine.

Today, the Center for Health and Technology reflects the UC Davis goal of advancing health care by bringing together innovative technologies with the expertise of physicians, educators, information technology and communications specialists, scientific engineers and researchers, who are all working together to create and improve access to high quality patient care.

Featured Stories

Rural need is great, but docs are too few
Published: Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009 - If you really want to know what it's like to be a rural doctor, clear your mind of all that "Northern Exposure" stuff. That's just TV. The reality is more like the big city than you might think.

When The Best Doctor Is Far Away
November 22, 2009 Parade - Last Christmas morning, a young boy lay unconscious in the emergency room of a tiny hospital in Colusa, Calif. His pulse was slow and weak, his blood starved of oxygen. "He was literally blue," says Dr. James Marcin, a pediatric critical-care doctor. "He was dying."

Texting Helps People Get Sun-Smart 
November 17, 2009  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Texting people to remind them to wear sunscreen daily actually works, research shows.

New UC Davis Telemedicine Program advances community-based health care