Center for Telehealth Research and Policy (C-TRaP) Resources

Find resources, news and events about the Center for Telehealth Research and Policy (C-TRaP).

Upcoming conference

Missouri Connected Care & Ethics Summit: Bridging Telehealth, Ethics, and Access in Healthcare Innovation
November 19-20, 2026
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Parthaw Goswami, Erfan Zareei, Amy Vogelsmerer, Dima Dandachi, Ben Casterline, Mirna Becevic, Praveen Rao. A Tool for Anonymized Clinical Knowledge Retrieval and Speaker Interaction Analysis of Healthcare Tele-mentoring Sessions (under review)

Svara Narain, Parthaw Goswami, Erfan Zareei, Mirna Becevic, Praveen Rao, Dima Dandachi. Federated Learning in Healthcare: A Systematic Review of Technical Innovation, Clinical Translation, and Deployment Readiness (under review)
Hubert W. Miller III, R. Sam Larson, James W. Dearing, Maria K Lapinski. Signaling Organizational and Peer Support to Promote Intra-Organizational Adoption of Innovations (under review)
Telehealth Utilization Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Medicaid Claims Analysis of Policy Shifts and Temporal Change Points (under review)
Amir Erfan Zareei Shams Abadi, Bin Ge, Parthaw Goswami, Praveen Rao, Dima Dandachi, Benjamin Warren Casterline, Amy Vogelsmeier, Bhawani Mishra, Mirna Becevic. A Longitudinal Survival and Text-Clustering Analysis of Opioid Prescribing Behavior and ECHO Provider Questions in Missouri (under review)
Parthaw Goswami, Erfan Zareei, Svara Narain, Dima Dandachi, Mirna Becevic, Praveen Rao. A Federated Question Answering System for Harnessing Distributed Telehealth Case Data (under review)

Telehealth Use in Missouri Medicaid: A Sustained Shift in Care Delivery (under review)
Opioid prescribing change among Missouri providers after Pain Management ECHO participation (under review)
Making Innovations Travel: How Organizations Can Spread What Works from One Unit to the Whole Organization (under review)
Unlocking siloed telehealth case data: A Federated Learning Question Answering System for Project ECHO (under review)

C-TRaP: Turning Evidence into Better Care for Everyone, Everywhere in the Era of AI. poster presentation, SEARCH 2026 – The National Telehealth Research Symposium, June 2–3, 2026, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Explainable Schema Mapping for Harmonizing Telehealth Case Presentation forms Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation IEEE/ACM CHASE 2026, Aug 4-6, 2026 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

2026 National Telehealth and Virtual Care Conference
March 26-27, 2026
Nashville, TN
Presentation topic: Telehealth and AI: Strategic Transformation
Presenter: Dr. Mirna Becevic
Midwest HIV Response and Action Summit
April 22, 2026
St. Louis, MO
Presentation topic: Telehealth as an EHE Accelerator: Expanding HIV Prevention and Care across Missouri
Presenter: Dr. Dima Dandachi
Missouri Dermatology Trainee Advocacy Day (MODTAD)
May 2, 2026
Virtual
Presentation topic: From Screen to Skin: A Decade of Dermatology Learning Through Show-Me ECHO
Presenter: Dr. Mirna Becevic
2026 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
August 4-7, 2026
Hybrid, in-person in Washington, D.C. or virtual
Presentation topic: From Lost to Re-Engaged: Telehealth, Rapid ART Restart, and Person-Centered HIV Care Through the ACCELERATE Model.
Presenter: Dr. Dima Dandachi

“The current state of telehealth: policy, payment, and use”
Speaker: Sue Boren, PhD, MHA
March 18th, 2026
“Explaining the Diffusion of a Telehealth Innovation: The Case of Project ECHO”
Speaker: Jim Dearing, PhD
June 16th, 2026
“Introducing a community-level Digital Health Readiness Index for informing targeted digital health interventions”
Speaker: Saif Khairat, PhD, MPH, FACMI
September 16th, 2026

C-TRaP innovation proposal received second place in the Telehealth Innovation Tank at the OAT Grantee Meeting on July 15th.
Topic: an AI-Supported Clinical Knowledge Retrieval System for tele-ECHO Sessions