TAHOE INSTITUTE FOR RURAL HEALTH RESEARCH Expanding the reach of the best medical care through technology
Mission The mission of the Tahoe Institute originate from healthcare research focusing on the unique for Rural Health Research (TIRHR) professionals, primarily from barriers to optimal healthcare is to develop innovative remote or rural environments, who delivery in a geographically remote, technological products and work with more limited resources, mountainous region. This is based practices, which improve the and are looking to solve an unmet on the involvement of the affordability and delivery of high need. The innovations developed community, the resources invested quality healthcare to rural, remote, by TIRHR will reduce the cost of in TIRHR, the expertise of the and underserved communities. care and/or improve quality of care leadership of TIRHR, and the TIRHR is particularly interested in and will therefore be applicable to rack record of successful innovations that reduce healthcare a wide variety of healthcare collaboration with UC Davis. The costs or reform healthcare delivery settings both rural and urban. The Scientific Advisory Committee
in rural hospitals, clinics, and scientists and engineers working (SAC) of TIRHR has requested that remote or home settings. as management or staff at TIRHR interested community members have significant experience in and medical professionals provide conducting revolutionary research innovative ideas that can be
Vision ad bringing important new translated into solutions for To bring hospital quality care to technologies to market. providing better rural healthcare patients wherever they may live, delivery services. This effort work, or recreate. TIRHR includes the expertise of resulted in numerous ideas from physicians, nurses, scientists, front line providers in the About TIRHR engineers, researchers, educators, community. TIRHR is currently Tahoe Institute for Rural Health and other related fields through its pursuing or developing four Research (TIRHR) was created in current collaborative partners. projects that were approved by the August 2009 as a subsidiary of the SAC. Tahoe Forest Hospital District. TIRHR is well positioned to conduct Project ideas for TIRHR typically high quality community-based
PO Box 759 Truckee, CA 96160 (408) 550-3146 TAHOE INSTITUTE FOR [email protected] RURAL HEALTH RESEARCH tfhd.com/tirhr TAHOE INSTITUTE FOR RURAL HEALTH RESEARCH Expanding the reach of the best medical care through technology
Our Current Development Projects We bring • Software-based Critical Care Assistant healthcare • Take-home Blood Monitoring System to the • Field portable mTBI diagnostic patient • Portable, wearable Vital Signs Monitor
Our Team Keith Tatsukawa, TIRHR Senior Scientist. Our institute focuses some of the most innovative Principal Investigator for the mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) program. entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, and clinicians on rural medical needs.
Tom Hobday, President & CEO. Extensive Stephen Lane, Ph.D. TIRHR Senior Scientist. experience in business management and Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, specialist in medical philanthropy; founder of TIRHR. medical device development and commercialization .
Jim Hood, Ph.D., COO. Product Development Dick Johnson. TIRHR Senior Scientist. Executive Engineer and Executive Management. leadership experience in Engineering R&D.
Betsy Cole, Executive Vice President. Over 30 years of experience in corporate finance, Windy McNerney, Ph.D. TIRHR Senior Scientist. business planning, and financial management. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, cognitive neuroscience, neurobiology.
Mark Peshoff, Vice President. Industry veteran focused on driving innovation in healthcare Nina S. Winans, MD, Medical Director services and delivery. Tahoe Center for Health and Sports Performance Sports Medicine Physician
Dennis Matthews, Ph.D., Chief Scientist. Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, extensive Maureen Ludwig, RN, MSN, TIRHR Applied experience at R&D program leadership, medical Clinical Specialist. Diverse health care device creation, development and background with clinical, management, commercialization. technical, training and medical-legal skills. Partners
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