Kendall Ho, TEKTIC Executive Director

Dr. Kendall Ho’s academic and research interest include the incorporation of adult learning principles into the development of effective and relevant medical education for health professionals, the integration of telecommunication and medical informatics technologies to assist rural and urban health professionals to obtain their continuing education on demand, and the construction of a telemedicine infrastructure to provide real time clinical support via technologies in order to partner with rural health professionals to augment and enhance the access and quality of care to rural and isolated communities. These areas of interest has led to the development of innovative hands-on workshops to teach physicians skills in using the Internet and Personal Digital Assistants (e.g. Palm Pilots) for professional use, CD-ROM, videoconferencing and Internet based continuing medical educational courses for distributive learning, telemedicine pilot and implementation projects between urban and rural and First Nations communities in B.C, and scientific abstracts, editorials, and journal articles on the subjects of medical education and telemedicine.