 Ronald
S. Weinstein, M.D.
Ronald S. Weinstein, M.D., is the
Director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program, a program he
co-founded with State Senator Robert “Bob” Burns in 1996. The
Arizona Telemedicine Program is credited with creating one of
the first membership-based sustainable state-wide broad band
healthcare/education telehealth networks. The Program operates
the Arizona Rural Telemedicine Network, a network that links 71
communities and 152 sites in Arizona, and has provided the
infrastructure for over 700,000 teleconsultations to date. Dr.
Weinstein has administrative responsibilities for the operation
of this network. Among its members, the Arizona Telemedicine
Program links 9 state prisons to telemedicine service providers,
in Tucson and Phoenix, serves the telehealth needs of the
Navajo, Hopi, and Apache Reservations, and other Indian
Reservations in Arizona, and has affiliation agreements with 55
health care organizations in Arizona. The Institute for
Advanced Telemedicine and Telehealth (T-Health Institute), also
founded by Dr. Weinstein, is a division of the Arizona
Telemedicine Program. It is headquartered in Phoenix and serves
as a regional telehealth training center.
Dr. Weinstein received his M.D.
degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and then trained
as a pathologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital, in
Boston. He was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard Medical School.
Following service in the U.S. Air Force, in the Viet Nam era, as
a Major in the Medical Corps stationed at the Aerospace Medical
Research Laboratories at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in
Ohio, Dr. Weinstein became one of the youngest academic
department chairs in the United States. He ran the clinical
laboratories for a 1,000 bed university hospital,
Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center, in Chicago, where
he also chaired Rush Medical College’s Pathology Department ,
for 15 years (1975-1990). He was then recruited by the
University of Arizona, to serve as Chair of its Pathology
Department, in the College of Medicine, a position he held for
17 years (1990-2007). The position included being in charge of
the clinical laboratory services at both University Medical
Center and University Physicians Healthcare Hospital, in
Tucson. Since he stepped down as Department Chair last year, to
devote more time to telemedicine, he has remained involved in
the practice of medicine.
Dr. Weinstein has been a leader in
organized medicine in the United States. He has served as
President of five professional organizations, including the
American Telemedicine Association. He has faculty positions at
both Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, as
Professor of Pathology and Public Health, at the University of
Arizona, and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics, at
Arizona State University. He has co-authored over 400
professional publications, including 9 books, mainly on cancer
and telemedicine, and has been an international consultant on
telemedicine and medical information systems, for governments in
Canada, Latin American, Europe and Asia.
Dr. Weinstein has received
numerous national and international awards and honors including
the American Telemedicine Association President’s Award for
Leadership in Telemedicine, the top individual award in the
telemedicine field. In Arizona, he received the University of
Arizona’s “Leading Edge Innovation” Award and the Arizona
Governors’ Award for “Start-Up Company of the Year”, among
others. A popular teacher, Dr. Weinstein has received the
University of Arizona, College of Medicines’ Lifetime Teaching
Award, selected by the medical students.
Ronald S.
Weinstein, M.D.
Director
Arizona Telemedicine Program
PO Box 245105
Tucson, AZ 85724-5105
(520) 626-2971
ronaldw@u.arizona.edu
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