Scott C. Simmons, MS

Director of TeleHealth

Scott received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University (1990) and his M.S. in Industrial Engineering (Engineering Management focus) from the University of Houston (1993). Mr. Simmons has a proven track record in systems engineering and management of complex research and development projects. He was the project manager for development of the Telemedicine Instrumentation Pack (TIP; U.S. Patent #5,701,904), NASA’s first space-certified telemedicine system and the co-PI for the TIP’s evaluation aboard Shuttle Endeavour mission, STS-89. He led two clinical evaluations of the TIP in Galveston, TX and on the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Reservations in Montana. Mr. Simmons also was the project manager for medical experiments during NASA’s Summer 2000 expedition to Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic and telemedicine systems design and deployment to Star City, Russia to support US astronauts training there. He then moved to CyberMDx, Inc., a firm formed to commercialize the TIP, and served as the firm’s Vice President of Operations and Chief Technology Officer. He moved to East Carolina University (ECU) in 2001. As Assistant Director of the ECU Telemedicine Center, he led the expansion of ECU’s telemedicine network to more than double in size. He was PI and co-I on several of ECU’s telemedicine research and development projects. Mr. Simmons conceived and implemented the National Telehealth Virtual Grand Rounds, which involves organizations from across the US. Scott was on the faculty of the ECU Advanced Telemedicine Training Center, instructed and mentored residents in the Telemedicine Residency rotation, and was the Program Director for the Center’s Summer Undergraduate Internship Program.

In July 2007, Scott moved to join the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine where he is currently the Director of TeleHealth. He is a former Treasurer and Board member of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). Scott has taught several short courses and tutorials on telemedicine technology and standards for the American Telemedicine Association’s (ATA) annual meeting, He has presented and published extensively on various aspects of telemedicine and is a member of the editorial board of the Telemedicine and e-Health Journal. His research interests include medical data and device interoperability, Internet Protocol videoconferencing, wireless networking, information and communication security, and consumer telehealth.