Dr. Roper has been in clinical practice for over 20 years, primarily in rural, frontier and urban underserved populations. He established and continues to direct the first primary care and exclusively nurse run ECHO clinic. The most recent innovation includes a collaboration between the Primary Care ECHO Clinic and the New Mexico HRSA funded Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) creating a virtual central hub to support rural clinicians and health sciences students in interprofessional healthcare statewide. Dr. Roper has extensive experience in rural health care both as a clinician and administrator on a national and international level.
Dr. Martin has over 30 years of clinical, managerial and leadership experience in acute rehabilitation, home care, hospice, case management, behavioral health, long-term care, quality improvement consultation and community health, as well as 10 years as faculty. She has been involved with three HRSA grant teams developing primary care faculty practice and integrating oral health, behavioral health, and a Medicare Chronic Care Management program. Dr. Martin serves as the PI and program director of the College’s Nursing's Geriatric Education and Health Maintenance and as the co-investigator on an NIH grant on COVID-19 Just-In-Time Telehealth Implementation in FQHC Primary Care Network project.
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