CIMT to formalise research collaboration with American universities
For the past three years, researchers from CIMT have been part of the research collaboration TTRN; Transatlantic Telemedicine Research Network, in collaboration with Birthe Dinesen from the Laboratory for Welfare Technology at Aalborg University and a number of American telemedicine researchers.
It was in that context that Kristian Kidholm, economic head of research at CIMT, was on a researcher’s stay at UC Berkeley in the autumn of 2015.
In the spring of 2017, this collaboration was formalised through the signing of a 5-year co-operative agreement in which four universities (SDU, Aalborg University, UC Berkeley and UC Davis) have commited themselves to collaborate on interdisciplinary research within telemedicine between researchers in USA and Denmark, i.a. through exchanging PhD students and joint publications and research projects. Actually, the researchers within the network have already published one publication in 2016: Personalised Telehealth in the Future: A Global Research Agenda.
One of the first concrete results of the agreement is the arrangement of a PhD course for Danish and American students within the network in Aalborg in August/September of 2017, where both Jane Clemensen and Kristian Kidholm from the research management group of CIMT are to teach.
Furthermore, the network expect to arrange a conference in USA later this autumn.
Questions for CIMT’s complicity in TTRN may be directed at Head of Research Kristian Kidholm.