Congratulations to the 2025 Award Recipients:

2025 National Telehealth Champion Award:  The Honorable Lindsey Graham, United States Senator

2025 State Telehealth Champion: The Honorable Henry McMaster, South Carolina Governor

2025 State Telehealth Legislative Champion: The Honorable Mark M. Smith, South Carolina State Representative

2025 Rick Foster Primary Care Telehealth Champion: Timothy Hensley, MD, MPS, FAAP and C. Stuart Simko, MD, Prisma Health

2025 Telehealth Innovator: Lauren Johnson, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, McLeod Health

2025 Trailblazer: Kaitlin Hughes, BS, RMA, CareSouth Carolina, Inc.

2025 Telehealth Pioneer: Presented in memory of Michael Haschker

2025 Telehealth Program of Excellence: MUSC Health Department of Emergency Medicine’s Telehealth Division

Poster Award Winners:

Programmatic Winner: The Trinity of Correctional Telehealth Primary, Specialty, and Urgent Care

Scientific Winner: From Wait to Wellness: How MUSC Telehealth is Reshaping Emergency Department Care

People’s Choice Winner: The Trinity of Correctional Telehealth Primary, Specialty, and Urgent Care

Poster Awards

Congratulations to the 2024 Award Recipients:

2024 State Telehealth Champion: Patrick Cawley, MD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, Medical University of South Carolina

2024 SC Telehealth Pioneer: Robert
Bank, MD, State Director, South Carolina Department of Mental Health

2024 Rick Foster Primary Care Telehealth Champion – Danette McAlhaney, MD, Owner ad Family Practitioner, Bamberg Family Practice

2024 SC Telehealth Programs of Excellence: Improved Care and Provision of Rural Access to Eliminate Health Disparities (iCARE)

2024 Trailblazer: Caitlin Moore, MS, APRN, FNP-C, Associate Director, Clinical Operations Clemson Rural Health

2024 State Telehealth Legislative Champion: The Honorable Sylleste H. Davis

2024 Telehealth Innovator: Dominic Gault, MD, Prisma Health

Telehealth Technology Champion: Matt Hiatt, MSITM, PMP, Chief Technology Officer, Palmetto Care Connections

Poster Award Winners:

Programmatic Winner:Project FAM: Discreet Food Insecurity Screening in a Rural Pediatric Clinic with Resource Sharing

Scientific Winner: Emergency Department Utilization by South Carolina Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

People’s Choice Winner: Community Paramedicine: How a Rural Primary Care Office and an EMS Agency are Working Toward Redefining Healthcare Delivery in South Carolina

Congratulations to the 2023 Award Recipients:

2023 State Telehealth Champion: Kathyrn King, MD

2023 SC Telehealth Pioneer: Divya Ahuja, MD

2023 Rick Foster Primary Care Telehealth Champion – Rick Foster, MD

2023 SC Telehealth Programs of Excellence: SC Department of Mental Health Community Telepsychiatry Program

2023 Digital Health Equity State Champion: Kathy Schwarting, MHA

2023 State Telehealth Legislative Champion: The Honorable Bill Herbkersman, Chairman

2023 Telehealth Innovator: Marc Bingham, MD

Poster Award Winners:

Programmatic Winner: Impact of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) on 12 Month BP Outcomes: An Innovative Approach to Hypertension Management

Scientific Winner: Vape X: A Digital Vaping Cessation Intervention for Adolescents with Depression

People’s Choice Winner: Get by With a Little Help From: Telehealth Centralized Support

Congratulations to the 2021 Award Recipients:

2021 National Telehealth Champion: United States Senator Tim Scott

2021 State Telehealth Champion: Kent Jones, MD and Cady Williams, MD, Ferlauto Center for Complex Pediatric Care

2021 SC Telehealth Pioneer: Michael Lyons, MD, Greenwood Genetic Center

2021 SC Innovator Award: The Navigation Center, Charleston

2021 SC Telehealth Programs of Excellence: Southeast Viral Interactive Case Conference, University of South Carolina and Project ECHO Opioid Use Disorder, Medical University of South Carolina

Poster Award Winners:

Scientific Winner: “The Financial Performance of Rural Hospitals,” Authors: Dunc Williams Jr, PhD.; Mary Dooley, PhD; Jada Johnson, MS; Sarah A. Sterling, MD; Alexandra Castillo, MPH

Programmatic Winner: “Telehealth Technologies, Data, and Process Improvement to Drive Innovation,” Authors: Evelyn Terrell, OTD, MHSA; Jason Stiles, MBA, PhD, LSSBB; Saima Aftab, MD, FACHE, FAAP; Elizabeth Sotolongo, MHSA; Laura Cerpa; Fahd Lahrech, MS

People’s Choice Winner: “Microsoft Teams for Clinical Telehealth Collaboration,” Authors: Ryan R. Lau, MS, REEG/EPT, CNIM, CLTM, FASET; Jessica Dustman, MS, RN; Denzil Coleman, MS; Laura Langston, MHA

2019 SC Telehealth Program of Excellence:
The MUSC Health School Based
Telehealth Program
Kathryn King, MD, Elana Wells, MPH, CHES
and Kelli Garber, MSN, APRN, PPCNP-BC

2019 SC Telehealth Champion
John H. Magill, MSW
Retired Director of the
South Carolina Department
of Mental Health

2019 SC Telehealth Pioneer Award
David R. Garr, MD
former SC AHEC Executive Director
Accepting on his behalf
Anna Lefebvre, MSW, CPHQ
SC AHEC Executive Director