Karen Rheuban

Biography

Dr. Rheuban is Professor of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine; Director, Center for Telehealth, University of Virginia; Dean for Continuing Education and External Affairs, University of Virginia; Past President of the American Telemedicine Association; Board Chair, Virginia Telehealth Network. Dr. Rheuban is a past President of the American Telemedicine Association, a board member of the Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law, and the board chair of the Virginia Telehealth Network. She is a trustee of the Swinfen Charitable Trust, an international telemedicine charity and a member of the Virginia Board of Medicine ad-hoc working group on telemedicine. Dr. Rheuban is the co-editor of the 2017 McGraw Hill textbook, Understanding Telehealth. Dr. Rheuban has previously presented Congressional testimony regarding telehealth to six committees within the US House of Representatives and the US Senate. Dr. Rheuban is the PI on the HRSA funded Mid Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center grant serving 8 states and the District of Columbia. In 2012, she chaired the Institute of Medicine Workshop on Telehealth. Dr. Rheuban currently serves on the AMA Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group.