ECHO facilitator/presenter/partner Dr. Micol Rothman presented at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) 27th Scientific Symposium in Montreal this past September. WPATH is an interdisciplinary professional and educational organization devoted to transgender health. Dr. Rothman, along with Dr. Danielle Loeb, served on a panel that discussed four diverse models of providing care and training rural providers across the US. Rothman and Loeb discussed how the ECHO model works in Colorado to use specialists as telementors to support primary care providers in underserved areas.

The Transgender Health: Comprehensive Approaches in Primary Care ECHO series supports clinical providers who are interested in improving care for transgender and non-binary patients. Participants increase their knowledge and confidence in providing gender-affirming care. The series, offered on the first Thursday of the month, has been running since February 2020 and currently has over 300 registered from Colorado and across the country.

Dr. Rothman is currently a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology with secondary appointments in Psychiatry and Radiology. She is a clinical educator who directs the Metabolic Bone Clinical Program and is a co-founder of the UC Health Integrated Transgender Program.

The next session of Transgender Health: Comprehensive Approaches in Primary Care will be held Thursday, November 3 the session topic will be an Update on the WPATH Standards of Care Version 8: What’s New? CLICK HERE to register.

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Each year the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) elects members of distinction into the ATA College of Fellows. This honor recognizes individuals for their significant achievements in telehealth, service to the general telehealth community, and service to ATA.

This year, John F. “Fred” Thomas, PhD, Director of Population Telehealth and Care Innovation at Children’s Hospital and Executive Director of the Peer Mentored Care Collaborative/ECHO Colorado at the University of Colorado School of Medicine has been named an ATA Fellow. ATA will recognize him during the upcoming 2022 Annual Conference and Expo in Boston.

As the only organization completely focused on advancing telehealth, the ATA is committed to ensuring that everyone has access to safe, affordable, and appropriate care when and where they need it, enabling the system to do more good for more people.

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