Sleep Medicine & Neurology

Virtual Clinic

Telemedicine

What is Telemedicine?

Telemedicine or Virtual medicine may be defined as a medical service, which involves the provision of healthcare via electronic communication to improve a patient's health status. Applications of this service date back four decades. However, the potential clinical applications have surfaced recently, with healthcare reform emphasis on efficient, cost-effective, value-based care. The use of telemedicine is spreading rapidly and is now starting to be integrated into healthcare systems, hospitals, long term facilities, home health care, private physician offices, as well as consumers' home and workplace.

Why Telemedicine?
Long waiting times and the tremendous difficulty experienced by health systems, in recruiting neurologists, are reflective of the growing shortage of neurologists and Sleep, Specialists.

About Adrian Santamaria MD

Dr. Adrian Santamaria is an established board certified Neurologist and Sleep Specialist (Neurosomnologist). His pre-medical training was completed at the University of Houston in 1997. Dr. Santamaria then received his medical degree from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Houston in 2003. He completed his Neurology residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston (UTMB) in 2007. While studying at UTMB, Dr. Santamaria became interested in the interface of Neurology and Sleep Medicine. In 2008, he completed his Sleep Medicine Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He became Board Certified in Neurology in 2008 and Board Certified in Sleep Medicine in 2009 by the American Academy of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).