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  1. Vision Institute/Ophthalmology Department, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Botucatu 820, 04023-062, São Paulo-SP, Brazil

    Christina Muccioli, Luci Meire P. Silva, Luciano Peixoto Finamor, Rubens Belfort Jr. & Daniel Sigulem

  2. Health Informatics Department, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Pedro de Toledo 781, 04039-032, São Paulo-SP, Brazil

    Paulo Lopes & Ivan Torres Pisa

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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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Muccioli, C. et al. (2006). Teleophthalmology — The Brazilian Experience and Future Directions. In: Yogesan, K., Kumar, S., Goldschmidt, L., Cuadros, J. (eds) Teleophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-33714-8_19

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