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Karen Schulder Rheuban, MD — education (teaching), pediatric medicine (cardiology)

Courtesy Karen Schulder Rheuban, MD

Dr. Karen Rheuban (b. 1949) is playing a key role in 21st-century medicine, using telemedicine to provide the best health care has to offer to rural communities. In essence, she can electronically transport key personnel to a remote operating room or bedside, so that a specialist surgeon can consult from afar during an operation, a dermatologist can offer a second opinion to a local hospital, or a cardiologist can use tele-echocardiography to help determine a diagnosis.

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