Board Chair & Co-Founder

Dr. Yellowlees has extensive expertise in the clinical, business, policy and technical aspects of the Telemedicine industry. Dr. Yellowlees founded a private Telemedicine company, HealthShare in Australia in 2003. He also developed the Queensland Telemedicine Network beginning in 1995, growing it to over 240 clinical sites across the State.

As a telepsychiatrist for 20 years, Dr. Yellowlees has personally undertaken several thousand video consultations with patients. In recent years he has been using email, telephony and videoconferencing to communicate with patients throughout California. Dr Yellowlees developed and evaluated the first ever worldwide store-and-forward Telepsychiatry program and is arguably the most experienced telepsychiatrist in the world. He has published over 200 articles and book chapters primarily on telemedicine and recently was the primary author on the American Telemedicine Association’s Guidelines for Telepsychiatry (www.atmeda.org) which are being adopted nationally.

He is a Board Member of the American Telemedicine Association and of the California Health Information Exchange Organization (Cal eConnect) and chairs the Board of HLN.