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Tele-mentoring

Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) leverages tele-mentoring to share knowledge between specialists and primary care clinicians working in rural and urban underserved areas.

Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is about moving knowledge, not patients, leveraging tele-mentoring to share knowledge between specialists and primary care clinicians working in rural and urban underserved areas. Launched in 2003 at The University of New Mexico, Project ECHO is a nonprofit organization, working toward the goal of touching one billion lives globally by 2025.

ECHO helps reduce disparities in access to cancer care in rural and urban communities by bringing top-quality care to patients with cancer where cancer specialists are not readily available. ECHO strives to deliver a greater adherence to national best practices for cancer screening, prevention, and treatment; increasing capacity for community hospitals and health centers to care for patients with cancer; and improving provider self-efficacy.

Project ECHO |  Cancer ECHO

Meet the Team

ECHO series team photo Clockwise from top left: Jennifer Klemp, Ph.D., MPH, MA, Professor and Director of Cancer Survivorship; Karla Van Goethem, MCA Data Specialist; Mary Beth Warren, MS, RN, Executive Director of Continuing Education and Professional Development and Statewide AHECs; Traci McCarty, MCA Education Program Manager; Hope Krebill, MSW, BSN, RN, MCA Executive Director; Christian Sinclair, M.D., Associate Professor of Palliative Medicine; Ashley Spaulding, MS, MCA Executive Communications; Trish Long, PA, MCA Navigation Program Director.