Telemental Health in Resource-Limited Global Settings

Edited by:   Hussam Jefee-Bahloul ( Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry), Andres Barkil-Oteo (, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry), Eugene F. Augusterfer (, Director of Telemedicine for the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT))
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 171mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   340g
ISBN:   9780190622725
ISBN 10:   0190622725
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   15 July 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Hussam Jefee-Bahloul, MD is currently an assistant professor at UMass school of Medicine and lecturer at Yale School of Medicine department of psychiatry. Dr. Jefee-Bahloul had graduated medical school from Tishreen University, Syria in 2006 and moved to the U.S in 2009 to start adult psychiatry residency training in the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas. He moved to Yale School of Medicine for training in Psychosomatic Medicine, and then Addiction psychiatry. Currently Dr. Jefee-Bahloul serves as a medical director to Addiction consultation services at UMass. Dr. Jefee-Bahloul's academic interests are: Global mental health, refugee mental health, trauma and addiction, cross-cultural psychiatry and the implementation of telemental health in conflict and disaster settings. Dr. Jefee-Bahloul conducts research in the U.S and the Middle East. Dr. Andres Barkil-Oteo is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, and currently a psychiatrist consultant with Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Previously at Yale he was the Medical Director of Acute Care Services at Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven CT where he was involved in coordination and provision of mental health services to a large Iraqi refugee population, and undocumented immigrants in New Haven. Dr. Barkil-Oteo's work focuses on using technology to increase capacity of non-specialists to deliver effective and high-quality mental health care in low-income settings. He is the co-founder of the Syrian Tele-mental Health Network. His writings have appeared in Lancet, Lancet Psychiatry, JAMA psychiatry, and his work has been featured on ABC News and Huffington post. Eugene F. Augusterfer, LCSW, is the Director of Telemedicine for the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) and a core faculty member of HPRT's Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Program. At HPRT, he has helped develop HPRT's innovative model that addresses the need for sustainable care in post-disaster areas through the use of telemedicine, including mobile technology or mHealth. In addition to his telemedicine work with HPRT, he is actively involved in the broader field of telemedicine as the Chair Emeritus of the American Telemedicine Association Mental Health Group. As such, he has been instrumental in the design, development and implementation of telemedicine programs for a number of organizations, including governmental agencies and private industry. In addition to his affiliation with the HPRT, he maintains a clinical psychotherapy practice and is a member the Georgetown University Medical School - McLean Psychiatric Study Group (founding member), the World Bank Global Mental Health and Psychosocial Working Group (founding member and co-leader), and the World Economic Forum, Wellness Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland.