TTRN Announces Graduate-Level Course August 2025 at UC Berkeley and UC Davis Health:
Leading Innovation in Smart Health:
Next-Generation Telehealth, Robotics, and Al in Healthcare
A Four-Day Applied Course
August 12-15, 2025
The Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network (TTRN) PhD Course 2025, in collaboration with CITRIS Health, offers an exclusive, immersive learning experience at two internationally-recognized, University of California institutions—UC Davis School of Medicine & UC Berkeley. This course brings together academic leaders, scholars, and postgraduate students to gain a strategic understanding of Smart Health–next-generation telehealth, robotics, and AI–in healthcare innovation. Leading Innovation in Smart Health combines in-person learning with a four-day experience in one of the world’s most visionary, and pioneering, technology & healthcare ecosystems–the Bay Area and the University of California network.
Program Schedule:
August 12 & 13: UC Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA
August 14 & 15: UC Berkeley, Sutardja Hall, Berkeley, CA
Why Attend? This course equips participants with coursework and tools needed to navigate rapidly evolving smart health, robotics, and AI advancements within healthcare systems and research fields. Participants will:
- Master cutting-edge research study design, assessment, & implementation methods for Smart Health innovation
- Engage with global leaders in next-generation telehealth, robotics, and AI from academia and industry
- Expand professional networks with top-tier academic leaders, scholars, students, and health innovators
- Gain hands-on experience, through project-based work, on identifying opportunities for translational and team science efforts within healthcare, academic, and industry environments
Courses are led by internationally-recognized faculty and healthcare leaders from:
| UC Davis School of Medicine | UC Berkeley | Aalborg University | Odense University Hospital |
| Dr. Veronica Ahumada Dr. Nick Anderson | Dr. David Lindeman Dr. Scott McGrath | Dr. Birthe Dinesen | Dr. Kristian Kidholm |
Who Should Attend? This course is designed for
- Postgraduate students and scholars focused on technology adoption, translation, and innovation within healthcare systems and research fields
- Practitioners, industry innovators, and healthcare professionals responsible for technology adoption and innovation strategies within their organizations
- Academic and clinical leaders seeking to better understand translational pathways for next-generation telehealth, robotics, and AI applications/interventions in healthcare environments
Program Objectives
By attending Leading Innovation in Smart Health, participants will gain:
- Insights and expert feedback on pioneering methodologies for smart health innovation.
- Shared knowledge on smart health study design and data analyses for effective interventions and dissemination of findings.
- Discussions on Deep Tech Innovation with global leaders: Next-Generation Telehealth, Assistive Robotics and Al in healthcare.
- Networking opportunities within one of the world’s most visionary, and pioneering, technology & healthcare ecosystems–the Bay Area and the University of California network.
- Engagement and learning experiences to address the pressing need for collaborative and diverse partnerships to inform the use, application, study, and design of next-general telehealth, robotics, and AI applications in healthcare.
Tuition is $4,000 per participant, and does not include flights and hotels in Berkeley and Davis.
For special pricing for TTRN members, click here to register.
Smart Health encompasses digital health innovation in:
Next-Generation Telehealth
- Explore the current and potential impacts of next-generation telehealth technologies on healthcare systems: patient care, clinical practices, and organizational operations
- Evaluate implementation strategies for Next-Generation Telehealth through university case studies and project-based coursework
- Identify opportunities for bi-national translational pathways through development of pioneering frameworks. These frameworks will foster innovation and collaboration between healthcare, academic, industry, startup, and professional leaders to advance human-centered telehealth delivery, practices, and outcomes.
Robotics
- Explore the current and potential impacts of robotic technologies on healthcare systems: patient care, clinical practices, and organizational operations
- Evaluate implementation strategies for robotics in healthcare through university case studies and project-based coursework
- Identify opportunities for bi-national translational pathways through development of pioneering frameworks. These frameworks will foster innovation and collaboration between healthcare, academic, industry, startup, and professional leaders to advance human-centered robotics deployments in healthcare environments.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Explore the current and potential impacts of AI technologies on healthcare systems: patient care, clinical practices, and organizational operations
- Evaluate implementation strategies for AI in healthcare through university case studies and project-based coursework
- Identify opportunities for bi-national translational pathways through development of pioneering frameworks. These frameworks will foster innovation and collaboration between healthcare, academic, industry, startup, and professional leaders to advance human-centered AI deployment, practices, and evaluation in healthcare environments.
For more information and preliminary course schedule, please view the course flyer.
About the TTRN
The TTRN has a long history of connecting U.S. and Danish researchers from multiple disciplines—medicine, engineering, nursing, organizational behavior, economics and political science—to collaborate, ideate and build knowledge.
Long before COVID-19 accelerated the adoption of telehealth practices throughout the health care system, members of the TTRN were exploring ways to share their discoveries across sectors and across borders. From diagnostics to preventive care and treatment for a variety of conditions, telehealth technologies have the potential to help patients access the care they need from the safety and familiarity of home. The technologies require innovation, but so do adoption, training and best practices by clinicians.
The annual TTRN course provides a highly curated, in-person, and rigorous immersive learning journey. The course is offered alternatively in Denmark and the United States featuring lectures and experiential learning opportunities from international experts .
For more information about the TTRN, and to provide contact information for early registration, please see the program web page.
