John Graham

Dr. Graham is the President and cofounder for the North Carolina Telehealth Network Association (NCTNA).  NCTNA is a nonprofit broadband provider for nonprofit and public healthcare and public health providers across the state of North Carolina, with a focus on rural NC.  Prior to his work at NCTNA, Dr. Graham was a Senior Investigator and Deputy Director for the NC Institute for Public Health at the UNC-CH Gillings School for Global Public Health. In these roles, Dr. Graham initiated and coordinated the work of many health-related projects, with many of these pertaining to healthcare digitization and information exchange. Examples include the precursor to NCTNA, the public health lead for NC’s Regional Extension Center with a focus on Meaningful Use certification, the public health lead for NC’s Health Information Exchange,  the principle investigator for the School Health Public Health Surveillance project, and the public health project manager for the Southern Piedmont Beacon Community Project where he designed and developed innovative healthcare IT solutions.  Dr. Graham was awarded the University’s Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award for outstanding public service and the North Carolina Telehealth Network received the North Carolina Technology Association’s Public Leadership Award.