KEYNOTE SPEAKER

The Medical Home - Next Generation Patient-Centric Telemedicine Services

Dr. Richard Bakalar
Chief Medical Officer
IBM Corporation, USA

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Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Dr. Richard Bakalar is IBM's Chief Medical Officer and is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nuclear Medicine. Captain Bakalar (US Navy, retired) was the Navy's Surgeon General Executive Assistant for Telemedicine initiatives beginning in 1995. He is the immediate Past President of the American Telemedicine Association and completed 26 years in the US Navy as a physician and program manager prior to joining IBM in March 2003.
Dr. Bakalar is the senior medical consultant for IBM's information based medicine healthcare solutions, including its wireless Patient Care Connect mobile remote monitoring solutions and for enterprise (multi-center, multi-specialty) medical imaging PACS archives. Dr. Bakalar is a clinical advisor to several national boards and Federal agencies.

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