
2024 Healthcare Summit | Potomac Officers Club
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WHAT
Join the Potomac Officers Club's 2024 Healthcare Summit to explore the transformative trends and innovations shaping the future of the healthcare sector. Engage with industry luminaries, thought leaders and experts as they delve into critical issues such as the rise of artificial intelligence, the future of telehealth, navigating the changing regulatory landscape, harnessing the power of data analytics, tackling the healthcare workforce shortage, advancing health equity and exploring the future of healthcare delivery models.
Speakers

Emily Alagha
Sr. Director of Research Analytics & Support
Digital Science

Meghan Becker
Director, U.S. Federal
Digital Science

Karen Brazell
Vice President for the Department of Veterans Affairs Account
SAIC

Dr. Chris Caggiano
Principal Medical Officer
AWS

John Cho
Chief Technology Officer
Tria Federal

Lee Ann Crochunis
Deputy Director, Office of Information Technology (OIT)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Ben Cushing
Chief Architect, Health & Life Sciences
Red Hat

Dr. Tori Reddy Dodla
Digital Resource Management Chief
Department of Veteran Affairs

Dr. Kimberly Elenberg
Director, Data and Mission Partner Sharing
ECS

Kristen Finne
Director of the HHS emPOWER Program and Senior Program Analyst, Office of Information Management, Data and Analytics
Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response

Andrea Fletcher
Chief Digital Strategy Officer and Executive Director of the Digital Service
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Dr. John Galeotti
Senior Systems Scientist, Robotics Institute Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Alexander Holston
Chief Medical informatics Officer
LMI

Derrick Jaastad
Executive Director, Veterans Health Administration, Office of Emergency Management
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Tom Lapato
Vice President, Civilian Health Accounts
ECS

Vinay Malkani
CEO, Figure Eight Federal’s Chief of Engineering
Figure Eight Federal

Chandra Mohan
Chief Technology Officer
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA]

Steven Posnack
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP)
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology [ONC]

Joe Raetano
Artificial Intelligence Architect and Engineering Lead
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Lisa Rosenmerkel
Executive Director Data Governance and Analytics, Chief Data Officer
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Dr. Rebecca Rough
Chief Innovation Officer
Defense Health Agency (DHA)

Rick Shah
VP, Business Transformation & Total Experience
LMI

Xavier Soosai
Director, Office of IT Services Management and CIT CIO
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Heath Starr
Health Market Leader and Chief Innovation Officer, Civilian Business Group
SAIC

Jennifer Wendel
Chief Information Officer
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Agenda
7:00am | 8:00am | Networking Reception |
8:00am | 8:15am | Welcome & Opening Remarks |
8:15am | 9:05am | Opening Keynote: Steve Posnack |
9:05am | 9:50am | Networking Break |
9:50am | 10:50am | Panel A: Innovation at the Pace of Need™: From Idea to MVP: Dr. Tori Reddy Dodla, Dr. Alexander Holston (Moderator) and Dr. Rebecca Rough |
9:50am | 10:50am | Panel B: Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (HADR): Increasing Survivability through ML/AI: Dr. Kimberly Elenberg (Moderator), Kristen Finne, Derrick Jaastad, John Galeotti and Vinay Malkani |
10:50am | 11:00am | Break |
11:00am | 12:00pm | Panel A: The Convergence of Healthcare, Technology and Citizen Experience: Lisa Rosenmerkel, Xavier Soosai and Heath Starr (Moderator) |
11:00am | 12:00pm | Panel B: Catalyzing Clinical Translation: AI's Role in Research to Real World Impact: Emily Alagha (Moderator), Dr. Chris Caggiano, Andrea Fletcher and Chandra Mohan |
12:00pm | 1:00pm | Networking Lunch |
1:00pm | 2:00pm | Applied AI - Elevate Ideas to Reality Panel: John Cho, Ben Cushing (Moderator) and Joe Raetano |
2:00pm | 2:35pm | Afternoon Keynote: Jennifer Wendel Keynote Introducer: Karen Brazell |
2:35pm | 3:10pm | Closing Keynote: Lee Ann Crochunis Keynote Introducer: Rick Shah |
3:10pm | 3:15pm | Closing Comments |