Emtel Management Team
	Joseph Degioanni, MS, PhD, MD, FACEP Chief Executive Officer
	Charles J. Neilson, MD Medical Control Center Director/Clinical Risk Manager
	Rick Taylor, Program Manager
	Mark Jessen, IT Manager
	Nick Saunderson, CA, Corporate Controller

Charles J. Neilson, MD
Medical Control Center Director/Clinical Risk Manager

In early 2000, Dr. Neilson assumed a leadership role as the Medical Director of a highly technical and innovative telemedicine operation with Emtel, Inc. that linked supervising urban emergency physicians via a continuous audio-visual connection with highly trained emergency nurse practitioners on-site at several rural emergency rooms throughout Texas. For over four years, this successful operation surpassed all expectations for providing high quality and competent emergency care for over 84,000 patients in isolated rural hospitals. Patient satisfaction as well as overall confidence in this operation by on-site local hospital staff physicians and the remotely-situated emergency physician providers was also surprisingly optimal.

As Medical Director of the Medical Control Center, which put a fully dedicated and scheduled emergency physician in contact with up to five rural emergency rooms simultaneously, Dr Neilson developed a comprehensive telemedicine Guidebook which addressed various potential pitfalls and protocols designed to maintain excellence in this new approach to healthcare. Dr Neilson’s experience with both family medicine and emergency medicine, coupled with his supervision and direction of a successful innovative emergency telemedicine operation, allows him to contribute to the development of future telemedicine ventures.

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