Accessing Impact Through Applied School-Based TeleHealth

Matt Jansen - Executive Director - Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth, Inc. has over 15 years experience in community planning, program, and resource development. Mr. Jansen has a B.A. of Athropology and a Master of Public Administration from Valdosta State University and has led Georgia in several initiatives that include successfully securing over $20 million in local, state, federal and foundation support; establishing one of the largest Boys & Girls Clubs of America projects to sustain after school programs for 5,000 members; established a Cyber Academy Charter School that was recognized as Affiliate of the Year in 2007 and Charter School of the Year in 2008, by Communities in Schools; and implemented the first Rural School-Base TeleHealth Clinic in Georgia that will be in over 40 Schools by end of 2013. GPT has since established Alabama, Florida and Global Partnership's for TeleHealth to meet the 21st Century patient and physician demand for a fully integrated system of care. By leveraging Georgia's combined telehealth and telemedicine experiences, GPT's mission is expanding far beyond our boarders through the use of the latest telecommunications equipment and networking to bring physicians to some of the most remote areas of the world.