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Introduction 1) Access to Dermatology in Rural America: Statistical Measures and Epidemiology (Eliot Mostow, MD, (Professor, Department of Dermatology, Northeastern Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio and Clinical Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio) emostow@neomed.edu and Jennifer A Stein, MD (Associate Professor of Dermatology, New York University Langone Hospitals) jas231@med.nyu.edu 2) A Comparison of rural, suburban and urban dermatology (Laurel L. Wessman MD (PGY3, Department of Dermatology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities wessm018@umn.edu&nbs Dollars and Cents in Rural America 3) Economics of rural dermatology practice (Taylor Sisson, MBA, DHA, Departmental Business Manager, Dermatology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS) wsisson@umc.edu 4) Government and private efforts to incentivize rural practice (low interest loans, grants, etc) (Josh Ortega, MD, PGY-2 Rural Track Dermatology Resident, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS) jortego93@gmail.com Priming the Rural Dermatology Care Pump 5) Rural dermatology residency slots: priming the pump (Abel Torres, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL) abelt@aol.com 6) Training family practice residents in a rural dermatology clinic (Janet Ricks, DO Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS) jricks2@umc.edu 7) Training medical students in a rural dermatology clinic (Ross Pearlman, MD, PGY-3 Dermatology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS) rpearlman@umc.edu 8) Political action in rural dermatology (Elizabeth Kiracofe, MD, Private Practice, Chicago, IL) kiracofe@aol.com Establishing Rural Dermatology Practices 9) Academic rural dermatology offices (Amy Flischel, MD, Associate Professor of Dermatology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS aflischel@gmail.com and Stephen E. Helms, MD, Professor of Dermatology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS shelms@umc.edu 10) Private practice rural dermatology offices (Ira Dan Harber, MD, PGY-4, Dermatology, University of Mississippi Medical Center) iharber@umc.edu Philanthropic Approaches to Rural Dermatology Care 11) Free rural clinics: city folk making a difference in rural America (Leslie Partridge, NP, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS) lahoward2@umc.edu 12) Dermatologic care on the Indian Reservations (Lucinda Liu Kohn, MD, Dermatology Assistant Professor, Dermatology, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO) lucinda.kohn@cuanschutz.edu Utilizing technology to provide rural dermatology services 13) Project Echo: improving rural dermatology through digital primary care education (Karen Edison, MD, Professor of Dermatology and Director of Missouri Telehealth Network, University of Missouri Health System, Columbia Missouri) edisonk@health.missouri.edu 14) Delivering “store and forward” teledermatology to rural primary care practices: an efficient approach to provision of rural skin care (Chelsea Mockbee, MD, Assistant Professor of Dermatology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS) CSMockbee@umc.edu 15) Overcoming barriers to implementation of teledermatology (Robert T. Brodell, MD Tenured Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Instructor in Dermatology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry rbrodell@umc.edu Research in Rural Dermatology Practice 16) Health services research in rural dermatology (Vinayak Nahar, MD PhD, Assistant Professor of Dermatology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS) vnahar@umc.edu 17) Dermatology research: Stirring the scientific pot on an island distant from the “mother ship” (Richard Summers, MD, Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS) rsummers@umc.edu Making It Happen: The Rural Renaissance 18) Rural dermatology private practice: a life worth living (Adam Byrd, MD, Assistant Professor of Dermatology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS) acbyrd@umc.edu 19) Attracting dermatologists to rural America: Making a difference one rural practice at a time (Cindy Firkins-Smith, MD, CEO, Carris Health, Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota) Cindy.Smith@carrishealth.com
