Gina Perez, MD, is the Associate Chief of the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Behavioral Network. This includes Telepsychiatry not only for UPMC sites, but also for mental and behavioral health centers throughout Western PA including especially rural areas (16 locations/11 counties).

This podcast episode focuses on this rapidly growing treatment modality, not only for individual treatment and evaluation, but also for psychiatric in-patient units and over time emergency rooms. Care standards are being delineated.