Dr. Shawna Wright is the Director of the University of Kansas Center for Telemedicine & Telehealth and the President/CEO of Wright Psychological Services. She is a licensed psychologist (Kansas and Nebraska), and she obtained her graduate training in clinical psychology at Texas Tech University. Dr. Wright worked for over a decade in community mental health and has been a practicing telepsychologist since 2011.
Through her experience with providing treatment to rural and underserved population, Dr. Wright is keenly aware of the impact of the shortage of medical and mental health providers, and she sees the promise of telehealth for improving access to care. She has particular interests in advancing telehealth policy and engaging medical and mental health professionals and students in telemedicine education.
Dr. Wright works with KUMC’s Project ECHO as project facilitator and behavioral health content expert to assist Kansas health/mental health providers with increasing access to up-to-date research outcomes, best practices and standards of care to reduce health disparities.
Locally, Dr. Wright is a member of the Rural and Frontier Subcommittee of the Governor’s Behavioral Health Services Planning Council, the Kansas State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup, and the Kansas Prescription Drug and Opioid Advisory Committee. Her work with these groups to understand gaps in access to care and to identify ways telemedicine can be leveraged to increase access to care.
Shawna Wright will be speaking during The Tech & Human Infrastructure For Hybrid Care: Coordinating Virtual, In-Clinic & In-Home Services.