Sanjeev Arora is the founder and director of Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) and a Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. A specialist in liver diseases, Arora developed Project ECHO® in 2003, a practice model that aims to improve capacity and access to specialty care for rural and underserved populations by linking expert inter-disciplinary specialist teams with primary care clinicians through teleECHO™ clinics, in which the experts mentor primary care clinicians and share expertise. Project ECHO has been awarded major grants from the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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In thinly populated regions that stretch over vast territories, primary care is often a long journey from home and specialty services may be completely out of reach. Access to...