Aug. 16 — UC Davis Health hosts international fellowship program
Three Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis doctoral students and an alumna participated in the Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network Graduate Fellowship and International Exchange Program at UC Davis Health Aug. 13-16. They were joined by a team of seven fellows and three professors from Denmark. Doctoral candidate Victoria Ngo, doctoral students Cynthia Matsumoto and Emily O’Shaughnessy, along with doctoral alumna Michelle Parrish, in the week-long program, led in party by School of Nursing Assistant Professor Katherine Kim. The intensive, collaborative research and educational program was developed to provide a comprehensive introduction to personalized telehealth in an interdisciplinary approach by addressing challenges in future, personalized health care systems from design of new technologies, data mining and implementation to evaluation of telehealth programs at scale. Kim and Nick Anderson, an associate professor and division chief for health informatics at UC Davis, led the program along with Birthe Dinesenand, Lars Dittman and Kristian Kidholm, associate professors at Aalborg University in Denmark. The network was founded in 2012 by Aalborg University, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and UC Davis Health to develop cutting-edge research and innovation within telehealth. The interdisciplinary research includes nursing, medicine, engineering, organization, economic and policy experts, and focuses on developing new diagnostic, preventive care and treatment methods for people in their homes utilizing telehealth. Fellows were required to prepare a five-page paper and research presentation as part of the course. Sarina was one of two students awarded Best Student Presentation.

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