Here is a copy of an email that Dr.Weinstein distributed via the Association of Pathology Chairs (APC) listserv:
I have informed our Dean that I will be stepping down as Department Chair at the University of Arizona College of Medicine at the end of this academic year, having completed 32 years of service as a chair (15 years at Rush Medical College, in Chicago, and 17 years at Arizona). This will provide me with much needed time to devote to my job as Director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program, which I founded in 1996, and as Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Telemedicine and Telehealth (T-Health Institute), a division of the Arizona Telemedicine Program established in 2004. The Arizona Telemedicine Program surpassed the size of the rest of the Department of Pathology in recent years.
The Arizona Telemedicine Program now links 171 communities in 70 communities ranging in size from 280 people to 1.9 million people. It has 55 independent healthcare organizations as members, operates its own regional telecommunications network, and has helped bring in over $20,000,000 in extramural funding. It has provided teleconsultations for over 300,000 patients in 60 subspecialties of medicine, radiology, pathology, nursing, and others.
The T-Health Institute is an important component of the University of Arizona College of Medicine's new branch campus in Phoenix, which will have its initial first year medical school class entering next summer. The T-Health Institute will be involved in innovative medical student education programs and administers some of our federal and international telemedicine programs as well. The T-Health Institute is a component in Arizona's successful CTSA planning grant and a recent Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant for innovative on-the-job training programs for health care workers. I plan to remain active in the Department of Pathology in Tucson where I will continue to teach pathology and to do some service work.
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