Telemedicus Congratulates Dr. "Red" Duke for Thurman Award

Business Wire, May 12, 2008

Dr. James "Red" Duke Receives 2008 Thurman Award for DREAMS Contribution

HOUSTON -- Telemedicus, Inc. (OTC:TMDI) announced today James H. "Red" Duke, Jr., M.D., holder of the John B. Holmes Professorship in the Clinical Sciences at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, has received the 2008 General Maxwell Thurman Award for his work on the Army's DREAMS project.

The award honors the late General Maxwell Reid for his efforts championing the advancement of lifesaving medical technologies within the U.S. Army. Col. Ronald K. Poropatich, M.D., a senior clinical advisor at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, presented the award to Duke at the annual meeting of the American Telemedicine Association last month in Seattle. The U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command award is given to a national leader who has made a substantial contribution toward the advancement of telemedicine and related medical technologies in order to improve patient care.

Duke, founder and medical director of Life Flight at Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center, was commended for his work as one of the principal architects of the U.S. Army's DREAMS (Disaster Relief and Emergency Medical Services), which integrates real-time video processing and wireless communications technology to link remote medical experts with trauma and disaster victims. This technology was used to help patients who were stranded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and it was utilized again to assist victims of Hurricane Rita who were injured in rural areas of Texas and Louisiana. The technology is now licensed exclusively to Telemedicus who aims to make the technology commercially available.

Duke is the second UT faculty member in recent years to be presented the General Maxwell Thurman Award. S. Ward Casscells, M.D., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, was the vice president for biotechnology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston when he received the award for his work with DREAMS in 2004.

"Dr. Duke is a world-renowned and very respected trauma surgeon. He is also equally respected as a visionary and educator, and he continues to assist us in forwarding the technology," said Steve Price, Chief Operating Officer of Telemedicus. "Our mission is to save lives, and the DREAMS technology expedites and upgrades the care of patients in rural areas and in times of disaster. That both Dr. Duke and Dr. Casscells have received the Thurman Award for the efforts on the DREAMS project shows just how important this technology will be and how it is perceived by the military and telemedicine society."

About Telemedicus, Inc:

Telemedicus, Inc. (OTC:TMDI) is a publicly held company headquartered in Houston, Texas. Telemedicus is commercializing life saving mobile medical communications technology using bi-directional audio, video and patient data communication between a remote unit such as a rural ambulance service and the physician in a hospital. For more information please visit www.telemedicus.com.

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