Advisory Committee

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.

Jennifer C. King, PhD, is the Chief Scientific Officer for the GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer. She is a cancer research scientist turned patient advocate who offers a unique perspective: striking a balance between understanding the impact and mechanisms of new treatments and being able to explain what it all means to the greater cancer community. She uses her training to lead cutting-edge research initiatives to improve the lives of those living with or at risk for lung cancer.

As a translational oncology researcher, Dr. King has studied new molecular targets for cancer therapeutics and developed oncology mouse models at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA. She has worked in the nonprofit space for more than a decade, overseeing Conquer Cancer Foundation's research grant programs and portfolios, working in health IT and data governance for CancerLinQ,® and co-founding a patient-facing health data-sharing nonprofit, SHARE& For Cures.

Dr. King serves on multiple advisory boards and workgroups for national organizations such as the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Association of Community Cancer Centers, the National Lung Cancer Roundtable, and various pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies.

Dr. King earned a PhD in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS from Duke University. She is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.