2026 ISfTeH Student Contest & Award – Session 1

The International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH) invites you to the first session of its annual Student Contest, where selected student members present their research before a jury of ISfTeH experts.

📅 Date: Friday, September 11, 2026
🕒 Time: 5:00 pm CEST
📍 Join Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DZxx7ssPSNSfXfVDxgIGkw#/registration

This year’s finalists represent universities across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, with topics spanning digital immunoprofiling, telemedicine implementation, pharmaceutical teleconsultations, health equity in correctional care, AI for cardiovascular risk, mHealth for adolescent education, and privacy-preserving clinical language models.

Featured presentations include:

Digital Immunoprofiling of B-Cell Driven Mechanisms of Ovarian Cancer Relapse – Alejandra Rodriguez (Clemson University, USA)

Experience Report: Implementing Innovation through the Creation of a Telemedicine League – Diogo Pereira Vidal de Oliveira (UNIFESO, Brazil)

TeleFarmas: pharmaceutical teleconsultations for patients with asthma and/or COPD – Eduarda Agostini Dolfini (Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Brazil)

Advancing Health Equity Through Digital Health: Evidence from Telemedicine in Correctional Healthcare – Eloísa Karine Braga Lopes (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Bridging The Forest: Low Adherence and High Failure Rates of Teleconsultation Among Older Adults in The Brazilian Amazon – Lucas Wiesbauer Pasetti (Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Brazil)

Telemedicine in Health Management Beyond COVID-19: Provider Perceptions, Barriers & Strategies – Arisha Muqaddas (Khyber Medical College, Pakistan)

Artificial intelligence models for cardiovascular risk prediction in adults: an overview of systematic reviews – Marcelle Soares Viana (UFMG, Brazil)

A mHealth Solution to Support Adolescent Sexual Education – Maria Eduarda Machado Silva (Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Brazil)

Telemedicine in Georgian Penitentiary Healthcare: National Utilization Data + Incarcerated Individuals – Mariami Ambroladze (Tbilisi State University, Georgia)

HERALD: A FHIR-Native Federated Architecture for Privacy-Preserving Fine-Tuning of Clinical Language Models – Fernando Barcelos Rosito (Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Brazil)

Session 2 will follow on September 18.

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