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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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