For our September event, and first event of the chapter year, we are excited to highlight a two-part series on Artificial Intelligence (AI).  This event will focus on our first part of the topic of AI, which will talk about the Federal perspective of healthcare use cases of AI within respective agencies.  We will also hear in-person perspective of how Federal agencies are defining and viewing AI based on their team mission's.  Every agency, division, office, and center define AI differently and brings very unique use cases to the topic of AI and we are excited to hear about them on September 21st! 

5:30 - 6:15pm - Networking

6:15 - 6:30pm - Welcome & Announcements

6:30 - 7:30pm - Program

7:30 - 9:30pm - Networking

Location: LMI Building

7940 Jones Branch Dr. Tysons, VA 22102

Moderator:

Dr. Jesus Caban, Chief Data Scientist, Enterprise Intelligence & Data Solutions (EIDS) Program Management Office, Defense Health Agency

Dr. Jesus Caban is the chief data scientist for the Enterprise Intelligence and Data Solutions Program Management Office. In this role, he provides direct support to the EIDS program manager in the PMO’s development and delivery of robust information and data platforms that facilitate informed decision-making for the entire Military Health System.

Dr. Caban previously served as the chief of clinical and research informatics at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence/Defense Intrepid Network from 2011 to 2022. In that role, his team led the planning, implementing, and sustaining of the DOD Traumatic Brain Injury Patient Registry, TBI Portal, TBI dashboards, the Clinical Assessment Management Portal, and multiple artificial intelligence/machine learning models for mental health. Dr. Caban is atrained computer scientist with more than 16 years of experience in inter-disciplinary clinical and informatics research. He has authored more than 60 scientific papers in clinical informatics, TBI, AI/ML, image processing, and data visualization. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Uniform Services University at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches within the Data Science graduate program.

Dr. Caban holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky. He was a 2022 Inductee to the University of Kentucky College of Engineering Hall of Distinction. He won the Defense Health Agency Innovation Award and AMSUS HealthIT Award in 2018, and the TBI Portal won a Federal HealthIT Innovation Award in 2019.

Speakers:

Mr. Matthew Quinn, Science Director at Army Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)

Matt Quinn is the Science Director for the Army’s Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) and leads efforts by TATRC’s research & development teams to forge the future by fusing data, humans, and machines into solutions that optimize Warfighter performance and casualty care.  For over 20 years Matt has been deeply involved in advancing health technology in the public and private sectors in key roles such as Senior Advisor for Health Technology at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Managing Director for Healthcare & Life Sciences at Intel Corporation, Director of Healthcare Initiatives at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Healthcare Industry Manager for Teradata.  At the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Matt led a research agenda that resulted in “safety-enhanced design” certification requirements for electronic health records.  Mr. Quinn has been called to testify before both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, been inducted in the FedHealthIT100 Hall of Fame, received the HHS Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor granted by the department, the Army Meritorious Civilian Service Medal for his work in launching the National Emergency Tele-Critical Care Network (NETCCN) and the first ever National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved "Champion of Diversity" award. Matt began his career as an Army Engineer Officer and earned an engineering degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from Colorado State University.

Dr. John Scott, Acting Director, Data and Analytics section, Office of Health Informatics, Veterans Health Administration

Doctor Scott is a pediatric cardiologist and clinical informatics specialist who has many years of experience in the Military and Veterans health care systems. His has helped coordinate strategy for electronic health records and related health information technology both within and between them.

A 30-year Army medical corps Veteran, he transitioned from active military service to the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) in 2020 to work in its Office of Health Informatics. As the Acting Director of the Data Management and Analytics division, he supports the maturation of VHA data governance and helps to apply VA's data strategy to enterprise data management platforms. He also serves as the Co-Chair of the VHA Data Governance Council and is a VHA voting representative on the VA level Data Governance Council. In these roles he is part of the team working to responsibly unlock the enormous potential of big data analytics to promote health. Dr. Scott’s focus in that effort is developing the data governance tools necessary to ensure that the products of advanced analytics truly benefit Veterans.

Ms. Ioana Danciu, Biomedical Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

I am a biomedical research scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where I lead several initiatives in partnership with the VA. My research focuses on adapting scalable computational methods using multimodal data for biomedical studies. My interest areas cover adjusting machine learning methods to account for time to event with censoring, explainable AI approaches and learning with less labeled data.

CDR John de Geus, M.D., Navy Chief Informatics Officer, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED)

Commander John de Geus is a 26-year veteran of the armed services, a Family Physician, and a Health Informaticist. Dr. de Geus graduated from Uniformed Services University in 2010, and Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton’s Family Medicine Residency in 2013. In 2019, he became the medical readiness policy subject matter expert for Navy Medicine as the branch head for Active and Reserve Medical Readiness at Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED). As the project lead for Navy’s Health Readiness Common Unfitting List Evaluation System (HERCULES), he created population surveillance machine learning algorithms to identify deployability limitations of Service members. While at BUMED he shepherded Navy’s multiple medical readiness information technology systems through the COVID-19 pandemic and solidified his long-time passion for Health Informatics. 

Dr. de Geus completed the Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 10x10 course and has been serving as Navy’s Chief Health Informatics Officer and since the beginning in June 2022. Since that time, he has been leading the Navy Medicines efforts to revolutionize operational healthcare delivery with advanced new Joint Operational Medical Informatics System (JOMIS) software, and has developed the joint medical readiness system concept, Profiling and Readiness Action Tracking Unified System (PARATUS). PARATUS will function as Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technology on Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (SMART on FHIR) applications. JOMIS software and PARATUS will use various forms of artificial intelligence for clinical decision support and process automation. Dr. de Geus is passionate about utilization of healthcare IT systems, augmented with clinical decision support through artificial intelligence, to promote improved clinical processes for improved outcomes for Service members, provider satisfaction, and actionable medical intelligence for military commanders.