James McElligott, MD, MSCR, serves as the Executive Medical Director for Telehealth at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and as an Associate Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics at MUSC Children’s Hospital. He oversees the MUSC Center for Telehealth, which has the responsibility of managing more than $100 million in South Carolina state-appropriated funds for the application of telehealth. Dr. McElligott currently serves as the Chair of the Advisory Council of the South Carolina Telehealth Alliance.
Dr. McElligott’s career has been driven by a passion for telehealth and for helping the vulnerable and his conviction that the way to do so is through population-level change. Given the magnitude of the healthcare disparities in his region, Dr. McElligott has come to believe that real progress can currently only be made through the radical innovation offered by telehealth. Dr. McElligott was educated at the University of North Carolina, Wake Forest School of Medicine and the Medical University of South Carolina.