Innovation & Telemedicine
Academic Practice Track
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Welcome to the Telehealth Academic Practice Track.
Telehealth has the potential to dramatically change the way Emergency Medicine is practiced. Virtual Urgent Care services (connecting with a provider by smartphone or tablet) have become ubiquitous, and EM clearly has a role in supervising and staffing such services. Telemedicine can treat a wide variety of conditions without presentation to a brick-and-mortar ED. As specialists in acute care, with around the clock availability, our EM providers are uniquely positioned to play a fundamental role in this evolving and disruptive segment of health care.
We welcome residents to the Telehealth Academic Practice Track who are interested in exploring this new space. At a minimum, involvement in this track will teach residents how to effectively stage telehealth appointments and communicate with patients. We will also explore technology challenges that exist in providing this type of care and the ways in which exam skills and medical decision making must be modified in this new medium.
Our hope is that participants in this track will join us in our mission to develop novel virtual care models above and beyond traditional in-person care.
Activities for the Telehealth Academic Practice Track include participation in:
- Conference APT meetings
- Telemedicine lectures
- Telemedicine participation with external organizations
- Self-paced learning modules
- Teaching to a range of Learners
- Telemedicine elective
- Telemedicine shifts
- Telemedicine research project
- Scholarly activity and mentorship
Track Directors
Track Directors
Dr. Erica Olsen
Dr. Erica Olsen
Dr. Erica Olsen is the Director for Virtual Health Services for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). Her role includes oversight of Telehealth endeavors throughout the Department of Emergency Medicine West Campus / New York Presbyterian Hospital System: CUIMC Emergency Department, The Allen Hospital, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York, and Lawrence Hospital. Dr. Olsen joined the full-time Faculty at Columbia University Department of Emergency Medicine with previous Telehealth experience from her time at both the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA Hospital) in Western New York and Erie County Medical Center where Telehealth was utilized for the New York State Department of Corrections. Dr. Olsen currently sits on the Digital Health Executive Governance Committee for the FPO of Columbia University and the New York Presbyterian Hospital Telehealth Steering Committee. Dr. Olsen is excited to be working together with our residents to integrate Virtual Health technology into the Emergency Department in ways that enhance the patient care experience.
Dr. Peter Greenwald
Dr. Peter Greenwald
Dr. Peter Greenwald is the Director of Telemedicine for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Greenwald completed his residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and received a Master’s degree from the Mailman School of Public Health. He had a previous career as a NYC paramedic and still occasionally lifts heavy things.
As a clinician and administrator involved in the initial creation of the telemedicine practice at a large enterprise, Dr. Greenwald has a personal understanding needs of both providers and institutions learning how to do telemedicine well. He is particularly interested in how technology will facilitate new types of care; how communications tools can be used to do more than reproduce face to face medicine and how these tools can be used to create new combinations of patient-provider interaction.
Track Faculty
Track Faculty
Dr. Anisa Heravian
Dr. Hanson Hsu
Dr. David Kessler
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