Speakers

Adriane Burton is the Chief Information Officer of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), joining the agency in 2014.

Before coming to HRSA, Adriane served as the Director of the Division of Computer System Services at the Center for Information Technology within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She participated in the Health and Human Services Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program where she rotated to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and she functioned as the Acting Deputy CIO at the Indian Health Service (IHS).

Prior to participating in the SES CDP program, Adriane was the Deputy Director of the Division of Network Systems and Telecommunication within the Center for Information Technology at the NIH.

She began her federal career at the Internal Revenue Service as a computer systems programmer. She transferred to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Justice Management Division where she served as the Branch Chief of DOJ’s premiere Network Service Center and consolidated DOJ’s fourteen networks into one enterprise network infrastructure.

Adriane has a Masters of Science degree in Telecommunications Management and a Bachelors of Science in Computer and Information Science from the University of Maryland University of College.

In Brian’s role as Deputy Director of the Office of Preparedness, he helps lead the office responsible for all aspects of preparation for events such as disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and intentional attacks with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) weapons. This work is closely coordinated with other offices within ASPR, as well as other related components within HHS, such as CDC's Office of Readiness and Response, other U.S. government departments and agencies, and international allies and partners. 

Brian’s responsibilities include oversight and management of the following component offices: Security and Intelligence; Information Management, Data and Analytics; Critical Infrastructure Protection; Health Care Readiness; Medical Reserve Corps; Planning and Exercises; Continuity; and the Secretary’s Operations Center. 

Prior to joining ASPR, Brian served at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), where he was the senior executive responsible for leading the agency’s Strategic Warfare and Intelligence portfolio. He led and managed numerous teams evaluating a variety of national security programs and activities related to biological and other emerging threats; intelligence community management; security and counterintelligence; sensitive activities and programs; personnel vetting; and space policy and operations. In addition, Brian led GAO’s efforts to establish an Insider Threat Program and other internal security-related initiatives. Prior to GAO, Brian worked on WMD issues at the Defense Intelligence Agency, Office of the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters, and the Joint Staff J5 Combating WMD directorate. 

Brian received his Ph.D. in Biodefense from George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government and holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Richmond and a M.S. in defense and strategic studies from Missouri State University’s Department of Defense and Strategic Studies. In addition to his work in government, Brian’s teaches graduate level courses at several local universities, and he has authored or co-authored multiple academic books on cyber issues. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia with his wife and four children. 

Steven Posnack serves as the Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. In this role, he advises the national coordinator, leads the execution of ONC’s mission, and represents ONC’s interests at a national and international level. In conjunction with the national coordinator, Steve oversees ONC’s federal coordination, regulatory policy, public-private initiatives, and the overall implementation of statutory authorities and requirements, such as those from the 21st Century Cures Act and HITECH Act. 

As Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Lance Scott focuses on the FEHRM’s joint efforts, maximizing resources and improving collaboration on the joint health information exchange, HealtheIntent, Joint Legacy Viewer and other priorities. He manages joint requirements to create joint architecture and use cases, while synchronizing change requests, service requests and releases.

Mr. Scott also oversees the adoption of information models and standards while tracking joint decisions. He manages the technical orchestration of all engineering and cybersecurity activities impacting the federal EHR and the exchange of health data between the federal EHR and private sector partners. Previously, Mr. Scott served as a Project Manager for the DOD Defense Medical Information Exchange.

Avinash Shanbhag is the Executive Director of the Office of Technology. In this role, he advises the National Coordinator and the Deputy National Coordinator on health information technology matters, provides executive direction and control over ONC’s technology portfolio, and fosters health information innovation.

Mr. Shanbhag oversees coordination with federal agencies and industry stakeholders for advancing health information technology interoperability for improved health care delivery. He leads ONC’s standards coordination activities with all the health IT standards development organizations, including administration of the ONC Health IT Certification Program, the Certified Health IT Product Lists, and the certification testing tools.

Throughout his over 10-year career with ONC, Mr. Shanbhag has held a variety of leadership positions, including serving as the Deputy Director of the Office of Technology, Director of the Testing Division, and the Director of the Nationwide Health Information Network. During his tenure at ONC, he led the creation of the ONC testing and utilities platform to support health IT developers, developed a long term vision for the Nationwide Health Information Network, and successfully transitioned the operations of the network into the “eHealth Exchange.”

He has over 25 years of experience in developing enterprise software systems and managing large scale distributed software systems for healthcare industry. Prior to joining ONC, Mr. Shanbhag served as the Director of Core Infrastructure at the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology under the National Cancer Institute (NCI). He was responsible for developing and operating the distributed network and semantic services used by all the NCI funded institutions to share research data in a privacy protective manner.

Mr. Shanbhag holds a Master of Chemical Engineering from University of Alberta, and a Master of Operations Research from University of Maryland. He also maintains a Service Oriented Architecture certificate and a certificate in Machine Learning from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Dr. Kaeli Yuen currently serves as the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Product Lead for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of the Chief AI Officer. She served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at VA Office of the Chef Technology Officer from 2019-2021 and is thrilled to have recently re-joined the federal government as part of the new Office of the Chief AI Officer.

During her time away from VA, she worked as Director of Clinical Product Management at Accolade, a personalized health care company offering advocacy, navigation, and virtual care services, and as Enterprise Product Manager at Ambience Healthcare, which offers an AI medical scribe and related products. Previously, she worked in health care startups including The Human Diagnosis Project, Curai, and Akido Labs. She is now embarking on her own side venture, AltMD, which aims to empower medical students to pursue careers in digital health.

 Kaeli received an MD from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, and a BS in biology from Stanford University. She is based in Arlington, VA.

Agrawal has nearly two decades of experience leading successful healthcare technology companies. Since joining eVisit as its President in June 2022, Agrawal has revamped eVisit's Go-To-Market Strategy, reprioritizing initiatives to maximize virtual care's impact and strengthen the go-to-market team with new sales and marketing leaders with decades of healthcare IT experience.

In addition, Agrawal has initiated meaningful conversations with key healthcare stakeholders and thought leaders, reinforcing eVisit's understanding of the market's evolving needs as virtual care strategies become more focused on access, safety, and quality post-pandemic.

James McCartney is the Chief Security and Privacy Officer for Global Telehealth Services and an Identity Management, Privacy & Security Consultant and Subject Matter Expert.  He is a coauthor of the book If You Are Me, Then Who Am I? The Personal and Business Reality of Identity Theft. He is best known for his ability to develop and implement simple, elegant solutions for intricate issues related to security, privacy and identity management, with the focus being on answers that work in the real world, while minimizing impact to the missions of the organizations.

Mr. McCartney led GTS to successfully complete the FedRAMP Process to become FedRAMP Authorized and is currently helping GTS reshape healthcare to move toward treatment at distance.

Mr. McCartney was a consultant with BearingPoint and Deloitte, where he worked with a variety of Federal agencies across multiple industries dealing with a wide range of complex issues related to security, privacy, and identity management. He led the DoD effort to replace the use of Social Security Numbers, led an interagency work group under the Federal CIO Council to develop plans for how citizens can interact with the Federal government on-line and participated in the development of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, an initiative signed by the president in 2011 intended to cost effectively raise security for consumers online. He worked with the Federal Trade Commission, providing advice to the Identity Protection and Privacy division of the FTC on the implementation of the Red Flags Rule. As IT Security Manager for Ginnie Mae, he oversaw their first adoption of a cloud solution and as the Privacy & Security Subject Matter Expert for ONC’s Community of Practice for Health Information Exchanges (HIE), he was the primary security resource to all 58 states & territories as they created and systematized their HIEs.

Mr. McCartney founded Truvincio to make simple, effective security and privacy solutions to small businesses at an affordable price.

Prior to working in this field, he was a Nuclear Engineer and Surface Warfare Officer in the US Navy and is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy.

Sharmeen Noor leads the Google Pixel Public Sector Sales and Solutions business.  She has 12+ years of experience driving innovative solutions across many Fortune 1000 companies.

Prior to joining Google, Sharmeen served as Principal Product Manager, IoT Business Development  for a dynamic Product team at Verizon. She developed the overall IoT partnership strategy for devices + connectivity + cloud and secured formidable strategic business partners. She has successfully launched numerous SaaS solutions and joint partner solutions, particularly in the digital and mobile space.

Her mission is to leverage a thorough consultative approach to the challenges faced by federal agencies, as a solutions provider. Her success and knowledge about the Pixel product, resellers and carriers serves as the foundation for her to empower decision makers specifically in the public sector. Her goal is to significantly improve productivity, save time, minimize costs, and deliver results with minimal ramp up time.

Bryan has been in IT for over 20 years, with 8 years focused on the federal civilian space. He’s worked in several Fortune 1000 companies focused on IT Operations and Cyber Security. Over the last 8 years he’s worked with healthcare, state, and university CIO’s and CISO’s defining operations data strategies, delivering value through operational maturity.

Dr. Seth Schobel is the Scientific Director for the SC2i and an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He has a background in Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and received his MS (Johns Hopkins University) and PhD (University of Maryland, College Park) in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Genomics. His research interests have centered around host-pathogen interactions, virology, immunology, systems biology, data science, machine learning, and biostatistics. 

Currently, Dr. Schobel is working to better understand the molecular and regulatory underpinnings of wound healing and tissue regeneration as well as how microbial interactions influence the healing process. As Scientific Director of the SC2i he has been utilizing his skills in bioinformatics and data science to develop a cloud computing environment to enable big data interrogations of the aforementioned systems. Specifically, together with the SC2i, he is utilizing various Machine Learning approaches to further operationalize this data into Clinical Decisions Support Tools within real-world clinical workflows and environments to increase the fidelity of clinical decisions.