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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Alexandra Hospital, 10240 Kingsway Avenue, Edmonton, AB, T5H 3V9, Canada

    Matthew T. S. Tennant

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alberta, Royal Alexandra Hospital, 10240 Kingsway Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5H 3V9, Canada

    Chris J. Rudnisky

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Montreal, 3455 Vendome, Montreal, Quebec, H4A 3M6, Canada

    Marie Carole Boucher

  4. Department of Ophthalmology, University of British Columbia, 2550 Willow St. Vancouver, BC, V5Z 3N9, Canada

    David Maberley

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  1. Center of Excellence in E-Medicine, University of Western Australia, Lions Eye Institute, Nedlands, 6009, WA, Australia

    Kanagasingam Yogesan PhD (Professor in Ophthalmology and Director) & Sajeesh Kumar PhD (Professor in Ophthalmology and Director) & 

  2. Telehealth and Medical Informatics, Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, 94304, USA

    Leonard Goldschmidt MD, PhD (Medical Director) (Medical Director)

  3. School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-2020, USA

    Jorge Cuadros OD, PhD

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Tennant, M.T.S., Rudnisky, C.J., Boucher, M.C., Maberley, D. (2006). Teleophthalmology in Canada. In: Yogesan, K., Kumar, S., Goldschmidt, L., Cuadros, J. (eds) Teleophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-33714-8_16

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