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CU President Todd Saliman highlighted CU's role in Colorado’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem during his keynote address, emphasizing the university's unique position to connect with labs, startups, and industries across the state. The event attracted hundreds of attendees from the CU and broader communities, including U.S. Rep. Greg Lopez and Colorado state Rep. Eliza Hamrick.

This live activity is designed to inform Colorado healthcare professionals about innovations in telehealth

technology and practice, including identification of settings and patient populations in which the

technology is superior, equal or inferior to conventional practice and implementation approaches and

tools for mental health treatment using telehealth. Specific topics include key telehealth policy issues for

the state of Colorado, applications and remote mental health technology, XR simulations, AI in practice,

and videoconferencing issues.

Presenters

• Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD, FATA

• John Torous, MD, MBI

• Neill Epperson, MD

• Michael Allen, MD

• Allison Dempsey, PhD

• Mat Mishkind, PhD

• Clint Carlson, MS

• Joel Stoddard, MD

• Jay Shore, MD

Sponsors

• Colorado University Department of Psychiatry Office of Innovations

• Southwest Telehealth Resource Center

• Arizona Telemedicine Program

The learning objectives for the meeting were 4-fold:

1) Apply tele-mental health best practices in the clinical integration of telehealth services as applicable.

2) Recognize how to implement tele-mental health in a way that promote equitable access to care.

3) Utilize telemedicine technologies to provide mental healthcare services to a range of patients mixing different technologies and platforms.

4) Differentiate strengths and limitations to applying telemental health in various clinical scenarios.