Public Health

• Telemedicine sessions with multidisciplinary teams to interact live with concerns and questions of the local community

• Public Health Topics

Rehabilitationist Program

• Comprehensive Program in area where there are no trained professionals

Multidisciplinary TeamDr. Jose Rafols, Occupational Therapy, Florida International

UniversityDr. Paula Madrid, Trauma Psychology, Columbia UniversityPenny Peacock, Hearing Aid Specialist, HEARUSARaji Doraiswamy, Physical TherapyValarie Moser, Teacher Visually Impaired, Orientation and

Mobility, Lighthouse of BrowardDr. Gaelynn Wolf Bordonaro, Art Therapy, Emporia University,

CHARTDr. Ronnie Leavitt, PT, University of ConnecticutDr. Debra Tupe, OT, Columbia UniversityDr. Helen Masin, Physical Therapy, University of MiamiDr. Linda Stone, Psychology, Early Intervention

Florida International University

• Member of the Internet2 consortium

• Lead in developing a rehabilitationist curriculum, a revolutionary concept for developing countries which will combine OT,PT,ST,Art Therapy, Early Intervention, Trauma Psychology and Teacher of Visually Impaired and Hearing Impaired

Our First Rehabilitationist Class

South Asian Partners

• Association of People with Disability in Bangalore

• Manav Sadhna/Gram Shree in Ahmedabad • Occupational Therapy department at

Maharashtra University of Health Sciences • Art Therapy department at Stella Maris in

Tamilnadu• Art Therapy at Burapha University in Thailand• SEEDS

Goals of Telemedicine for Rehabilitationist Program

• Support dynamic interactive lessons among the multiple disciplines

• Explore the use of interactive touchscreen kiosks for store and forward lessons

• Explore the use of podcasts

Goals of Telemedicine for Rehabilitationist Program

• Live sessions will be multilink with multiple Universities in United States and South Asia with our Rehabilitationist students in Port Blair

• Testing will also be done via live interactive sessions

Why are the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Important?

• Small population, controlled data

• Lessons learned will be comparable to other rural and developing regions

• Portability

Sangha OfficersHina N. Sharma, M.D., Presidenthsharma@sanghaworld.org

Ozzie Bloom, Vice Presidentozzie@sanghaworld.org

T Dev Kumar, Director of Development - South Asiadevkumar@sanghaworld.org

Josh Bloom, Director of Development – Americajoshbloom@sanghaworld.org