Get to Know Us
Stuart Speedie—Project Director
Stuart M. Speedie, Ph.D. is the Principal Investigator and Director of the Great Plains Telehealth Resource and Assistance Center grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration. Dr. Speedie is a Professor of Health Informatics, a Fellow in Minnesota’s Institute for Health Informatics and Director of Graduate Studies in Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Educational Research from Purdue University and is a Fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics.
Dr. Speedie was the principal investigator on a long running grant from the Office for Advancement of Telehealth to establish and evaluate the Fairview-University Telemedicine Network. He is currently an advisor to the FCC funded Minnesota Broadband Initiative for Telehealth. He is a member of the ATA policy committee and has co-authored several policy papers for the group. He is particularly interested in the intersection of telehealth and health information technology. He has worked on several projects to extend the reach of telemedicine into the home that involve home videoconferencing, the internet and home monitoring. His research interests focus on the outcomes of employing information technologies such as these—patient well-being, financial costs and benefits, and impact on the providers of care.
Zoi Hills—Program Manager
Zoi Hills is our Program Manager. She has been involved with telemedicine since 2002. Prior to gpTRAC, Ms. Hills served as Project Manager for the Minnesota Telehealth Network (formerly known as The Fairview-University of Minnesota Telemedicine Network), the leading telemedicine program in the state. She serves as a committee member at the Greater Minnesota Telehealth Broadband Initiative (GMTBI) FCC Pilot program. In 2009, Zoi received Tandberg’s Video Champion Innovation award for her telemedicine application at the Minnesota State fair.
Mary DeVany—Outreach Director
Mary DeVany is our Outreach Director. She has been involved with telemedicine activities since 1993 when she served as the statewide telemedicine activities coordinator for the State of South Dakota. Since then, she has served as the Director of Avera Telehealth (winner of the 2009 ATA’s President’s Award—Institutional Award) and before that as the Telemedicine Coordinator for Sanford Health.
Ms. DeVany currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Telehealth and E-health Law. She has served on the Telehealth Taskforce of the American Bar Association, was a member of the Health Care Practice Taskforce of the National Governors’ Association State Alliance for e-Health (2007-2008) and previously served as Board member and President of the Polycom User Group. She is also a member of the American Telemedicine Association. She has presented on various telehealth topics and has written and contributed to several articles regarding telehealth program implementation and applications.
Consultants
Marilyn Dahler Penticoff, RN—Ms. Penticoff has been involved with telehealth services for 15 years. As a site coordinator at a rural facility, she implemented the telehealth program including education, administration and clinical applications. In 2000, she assumed the role of Telehealth Clinical Coordinator at a tertiary medical center where she was responsible for policy development, staff training, and assisting providers and rural sites in the development of their telehealth practice. Currently, she works for Sanford Health as their Telehealth Clinical Coordinator. Her prior experience also includes rural nursing, education, and performance improvement.
Ann Rathke—Ms. Rathke has been the coordinator of the North Dakota Telepharmacy Project since 2003. The project, which currently involves 72 pharmacies, is administered by the North Dakota State University College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Allied Sciences in Fargo. She has a Master of Arts degree in history from the University of North Dakota and a Master of Education degree in counseling from North Dakota State University. She has coordinated several statewide projects, including an initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to increase enrollment of uninsured rural children in the Children’s Health Insurance Program.