Telehealth Video Resource Center

Staff

Charles R. Doarn, MBA, TVRC Executive Director
Deputy Director, Advanced Center for Telemedicine and Surgical Innovation
Executive Director, Center for Surgical Innovation
Associate Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering
Editor-in-Chief, Telemedicine and e-Health Journal
Department of Surgery
University of Cincinnati
513-558-6148 (voice)
513-403-9604 (cell)
513-558-2026 (fax)
charles.doarn@uc.edu

Charles R. Doarn is a peer-review funded researcher at the University of Cincinnati (UC). He holds a faculty appointment as a research associate professor of surgery and biomedical engineering. Doarn serves as a special assistant to the chief health and medical officer at NASA Headquarters through an IPA agreement. Doarn also serves as the co-principal investigator and administrative director of the National Science Foundation's Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Minimally Invasive Medical Technologies (MIMTeC). Prior to joining the UC faculty, Doarn served as the executive director and co-principal investigator for NASA's Research Partnership Center for Medical Informatics and Technology Applications (MITAC), located at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Throughout the 1990s, Doarn served as the program executive for Aerospace Medicine and Telemedicine at NASA Headquarters. He was the principle author of NASA's Integrated Strategic Plan for Telemedicine and served as the lead for NASA's telemedicine activities.

Doarn served on the board of directors for the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and held several key positions, including secretary, treasurer and chair of the International Special Interest Group for the ATA. Doarn serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Telemedicine and e-Health. Doarn is a recognized leader in telemedicine as a scholar and teacher, having published more than 100 manuscripts and 11 book chapters on telemedicine.

Doarn received his undergraduate degree in biological sciences from The Ohio State University in 1980. He received a master's degree in business administration from the University of Dayton in 1988. Additional training has included Advanced Program Management at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Va., and a Medical Informatics Fellows Course from the National Library of Medicine at Woods Hole, Md.

Ken Fox
Video Specialist
OARnet
614-292-9431 (office)
fox@oar.net

Ken Fox currently supports year-round, 24x7 operation of video conferencing, streaming services, and other collaboration and multimedia tools for OARnet and its clientele. He joined OARnet in 2001 and has moved into progressively more responsible positions during his tenure here.

As a video specialist, Fox assists clients and partners with using OARnet's video conferencing services with a range of needs, such as analyzing customer requirements to determine best solutions, troubleshooting complex and difficult video network problems; and configuring and maintaining video end stations, MCUs and streamers. He works closely with network engineers to evaluate interfaces between network and proposed solution, as well as operational and performance requirements of the overall system. Fox also is responsible for training staff, clients and partners; maintaining and operating OSC multimedia services; testing video network technologies; and monitoring and maintaining system security.

Previously, Fox worked as a system specialist with OARnet’s Network Operations Center, assisting clients with technical issues surrounding network access.

Prior to joining OARnet, Fox worked as a senior staff technician at Ashland Chemical, where he was responsible for staff training and customer laboratory work.

Shavonne Morain
Chief of Staff
OARnet
614-247-6604 (office)
smorain@oar.net

Shavonne Morain serves as chief of staff for the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet).

In this role, she directs and coordinates the daily administrative activities of OARnet and the technology infrastructure for the University Systems of Ohio. Among her duties, she is responsible for tracking projects, evaluating metrics, and facilitating outreach with internal and external stakeholders, as well as working with senior staff on budgeting, hiring and performance management issues

Previously, Morain served as a business manager for OSU Med Center Information Systems department. As part of this role, she led the project for bringing the previously outsourced telecom billing in-house. This project required Morain to work closely with Med Center IS leadership, engineers and external vendors to ensure collaboration and adherence to system specifications for general ledger financial processing. Because of the success of this project, Morain and her team received special commendation from then CIO Asif Ahmad.

Morain also actively participates in The Ohio State University’s University Staff Advisory Committee, holding several leadership positions within the group, including co-chair for Governance and Parliamentarian. She also was appointed as the leader for OSU staff on the university’s Culture Transformation Steering Committee, a group convened as a result of OSU President E. Gordon Gee’s strategic goals to create a university of eminence, in part through a culture of high performance.

Paul Schopis
Director of Networking
OARnet
614-292-1956 (office)
pschopis@oar.net

Paul Schopis is director of networking at the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet), where he is responsible for the operation and ongoing strategic development of OARnet’s statewide optical fiber network.

In this role, Schopis led the design team that created the OARnet’s network, which is considered the nation’s leading statewide, high-speed network dedicated to education, research and economic competitiveness. He was involved in all phases of fiber procurement, fiber testing, design of the optical plane and all layer2 and layer3 services. The network uses a unique architecture that incorporates MPLS and Logical Routers.

Schopis previously served as senior engineer for Ohio’s Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC-Ohio), a consortium of Ohio universities, government agencies, and corporate partners whose purpose is to examine critical new applications, infrastructure problems and emerging technologies.

In 2007, Schopis was selected to serve on the executive committee of The Quilt, a national coalition of more than 20 leading U.S. research and education networking organizations, and was elected chair of the board of directors in 2008. The Quilt coalition promotes consistent, reliable, interoperable and efficient advanced networking services that extend to the broadest possible community. Participating organizations provide network service for more than 200 Internet2 universities and thousands of other educational institutions. Schopis was also a founding member of the Advanced Testing and Monitoring Team (A-Team), in partnership with ITEC-Ohio, ITEC-NC, Spirent, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and San Diego Supercomputing Center, for which he wrote the “Proof of Concept” WAN test.

Schopis holds a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University in mathematics and physical science.