2022 Keynote Campus Address
Pamela Whitten, Ph.D., is Indiana University’s first female president. She is also an accomplished scholar, researcher, educator, and leader. President Whitten holds a Ph.D. in communication studies from the University of Kansas, a Master of Arts in communication from the University of Kentucky and a Bachelor of Science in management from Tulane University. She is an internationally recognized expert in the field of telemedicine. President Whitten conducted research in telemedicine for many years in the 1990’s. She and her research teams received a lot of external funding to test the efficacy and outcomes of telemedicine, long before the COVID-19 pandemic made telemedicine a necessity for healthcare.
On Friday, February 25, 2022 from 12 noon to 1 p.m., President Whitten presented her Keynote Campus Address. The title of her talk was “Telemedicine: A Journey Through the Evolution of Translational Research.” During this presentation, President Whitten discussed her experiences as a research faculty member focused on telemedicine, new technologies and communication, and the social impacts and effects of health technologies. She examined the evolution of collaborative translational research projects from their initial acceptance and application to the analysis of their efficacy and outcomes, and, ideally, their formal adoption as policy and/or practice. And, she also discussed her vision for the role translational research can play at Indiana University and on the IUPUI campus in the years to come. This event was free and open to the public.
Watch the Keynote Presentation