Eugene F. Augusterfer, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Deputy Director and Director of Telemedicine for the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) at Massachusetts General Hospital; Co- Founder, World Bank Mental Health, and Psychosocial Working Group; Former Lecturer, Georgetown University Graduate School of Public Health, and the World Economic Forum’s Wellness Initiative. He is an internationally recognized expert in telemedicine and in the treatment of trauma in Forcibly Displaced Populations. He has published numerous peer reviewed papers on the use of telemedicine to reach underserved and marginalized global populations and he co-authored the book Telemental Health in Resource-Limited Global Settings, Oxford University Press, 2017. He is a peer reviewer for numerous peer-reviewed journals, including Academic Psychiatry, Oxford University Press, and others. He has done on-site field work in numerous disaster settings, including Haiti, Lebanon, Japan, New Orleans, post Hurricane Katrina, and Washington, DC, post the 911 terrorists attacks. He currently supports a major program in Ukraine focused on internally displaced women and children. He also served as a U.S. Air Force Mental Health Officer where he helped in the development of an Air Force wide Integrated Care Program of primary medical care and mental health care.