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Cole Weaver is an orthodontist at Smile Doctors Braces, diplomat of the American Board of Orthodontics, and a lover of all things Wyoming. Dr. Weaver is no stranger to the benefits of teledentistry. He is an advocate for the ability to help patients get access to needed dental care they deserve, both affordably and conveniently. Modernizing access to dentistry is slow coming, but it is proven to increase access to care using innovative technological advancements including Artificial Intelligence (AI), web applications and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM). These exciting developments are helping patients across Wyoming get the access they need without multiple office visits and added costs.

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Did you know mini-grants are now available to help Wyoming families offset the costs of technology for their children’s telehealth medical appointments? Overcoming obstacles to telehealth can be challenging, but Wendy Warren, Program Manager at the Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND), found a way to help. By applying for a grant to Family Voices, she was able to secure funding to provide devices to families who need them to access telehealth. But after working with families who needed access, it seemed that there was one more barrier to surmount—internet access. The team at WIND, including Kayleigh Schermerhorn (pictured here with helpful Verizon® Wireless staff) went to work to find an innovative solution to address this need with the funds available. The result? WIND now has nineteen Verizon® tablets with pre-paid cellular data service to provide direct support to Wyoming families in need of telehealth access. Read more here about how to access these devices.

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Jennifer Knerr is the Athletic Trainer for the University of Wyoming’s Campus Recreation & Wellness Center. She has worked as an athletic trainer for over 20 years in various settings including collegiate and high school athletics, an outpatient physical therapy clinic, and as an instructor for Sports Medicine related classes in both the high school and university settings. She shared her telehealth expertise in managing concussions at a recent conference and the WyTN caught up with her afterwards to learn more about her inventive telehealth work.

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It’s no question that Vivian Swallow has been making a deep impact in her community throughout her career. Helping to implement a telehealth program in Lame Deer, Montana, is just one of her many accomplishments. Currently, Vivian is the care coordinator in Arapahoe, Wyoming, at the Wind River Family and Community Health Care. The mission of the clinic is to provide primary care, traditional healing, preventative care, and wellness promotion to all members of the community as intended by the Creator. Vivian is also an engaged and active member of the Wyoming Telehealth Network, and is passionate about improving health outcomes through telehealth.

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This month features two Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) who are innovating in their field by utilizing telehealth.

Chelsea Paulus exemplifies Wyoming’s entrepreneurial spirit as she filled a gap in services by creating her own small business call Connect Speech Therapy. She now employs a small team of SLPs and SLPAs who provide services in four school districts across the state. Additionally, her team works with individuals seeking services outside of the school setting, both virtually and in-person, at their Sheridan clinic. Karen Richard wanted to offer her SLP services in Laramie, but there were no job openings, so she took her talents to telehealth and was able to stay in the community she loved while doing what she loved.

Both of these women charted their own paths in their careers while helping others learn more about how telehealth can open doors for patient treatment, career growth and entrepreneurship.

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Janette Mydland runs the Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program at the Sheridan office at Northern Wyoming Mental Health Center. At the beginning of the pandemic, telehealth seemed like a daunting task, but fast forward to the present, and Janette is the Wyoming Telehealth Network’s number one Zoom user this month with 25,500 minutes of meetings and counting!

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Kerian Duncan, PT, DPT, MSc, has a special way with children and their parents through her practice. Now she has her sights set on utilizing telehealth as a way to further reach her patients while still reaching for the best health outcomes. Her resume is impressive as she is a pediatric physical therapist and post professional trainee currently for the Utah Regional Leadership Education for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (URLEND) program. She has participated in NIH funded research to study sensory deficits and sensory reweighting as it pertains to trunk control in children with moderate to severe disabilities. Kerian’s primary interests are in visual and vestibular deficits seen in children with moderate to severe neurological disorders. We caught up with her recently to learn more about her plans for telehealth and how she plans to get started.

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For siblings, Dr. Grace Gosar and executive director of the Laramie Downtown clinic, Pete Gosar, telehealth is not just a priority – it is a labor of love. This Q&A discusses their triumphs and challenges with telehealth since March 2020 and will dig deeper into the incredible work of this free clinic.

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