IDGA's 17th Annual Veterans Affairs Healthcare Summit 2023 | IDGA | 18 July 2023 | The Westin Alexandria Old Town, 400 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA

The VA has undergone a number of significant challenges over the past decade. The pandemic has forced the VA to shift the way that it provides patient experience and care, with a need to better integrate digital and mobile technologies like telehealth and virtual care. Supply chain disruptions continue to change the way that the VA provides the tools, equipment, medicine and technology for its providers and patients. The integration of electronic health records system is changing the way that clinicians provide care at VA medical centers across the nation. Acts of Congress have opened up new options for private care to veterans.

Taken together, the VA must continue to tackle these challenges in order to provide the best care for our nation’s veterans. Congress has taken notice. In the latest Omnibus spending bill, Congress agreed to a total of $118.7 billion for the VA in FY2023, a 22% increase in funding.

This summit is now in its 17th iteration, and is an industry-wide staple for those supporting the VA’s mission set. Our partners across the military, government, private and non profit healthcare sector, academia and consultant communities have consistently made this event a marquee gathering for senior stakeholders, technology experts, industry innovators, clinicians, nurses and administrators. With our Summit regularly hosting over 400+ attendees, this engagement opportunity will provide those leaders across the VA Healthcare ecosystem the chance to learn, share, and connect with our nation’s veterans to improve health outcomes, care access, and delivery.

2023 Speakers

CONFERENCE CHAIR:

Don Prisby
Founder and President, NorthPoint Advocates

SPEAKERS

Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld MD, MPH
President-Elect, American Medical Association

Hillary Peabody MPH
Deputy Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Integrated Veteran Care, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs

Dr. Neil Evans MD
Chief Officer Office of Connected Care Veterans Health Administration & Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology/CIO Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Dr. Kevin Galpin MD
Executive Director, Telehealth Services Office of Connected Care, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs

Dr. Peter Kaboli MD, MS
Acting Executive Director, Office of Rural Health, Department of Veterans Affairs

Dr. Helga Rippen MD, PhD, MPH, FACPM
Chief Interoperability and Veteran Access Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs

Evan Albert
Director of Measurement and Data Analytics, Department of Veterans Affairs

Ann Doran
Executive Director, Patient Advocacy, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs

Dr. Angela Billups Ph.D
Executive Director and Senior Procurement Executive, Office of Acquisition and Logistics (OAL), Department of Veterans Affairs

Lynette Sherrill
Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs

Dr. Tamara Campbell MD, PsyD, DFAPA
Executive Director, VHA Office of Mental Health and Suicide Preventio, Department of Veterans Affairs

Ryan Lilly
Network Director, VISN 1 (New England, Department of Veterans Affairs

Dr. Wendell Jones MD
Network Director, VISN 17 (Texas, Department of Veterans Affair

Gregory Goins FACHE
Network Director, VISN 9 (Mid-South), Department of Veterans Affairs

Michael Renfrow
Deputy Executive Health System Director, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Department of Veterans Affairs

Matt Quinn
Director, Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Army Medical Research & Development Command (USAMRDC), US Army Futures Command

Dr. Lynnette Averill PhD
Clinical Psychologist, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (Houston, TX), Department of Veterans Affairs

Mary Gallagher-Seaman RN
Nursing Consultant, Employee Whole Health, Office of Patient Centered Care & Cultural Transformation, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs

Chadd Canode
System Redesign Director, VISN 8, Department of Veterans Affairs

Rosanna Powers
HRO Director, VISN 8, Department of Veterans Affairs

2023 Sponsors

• IBM
• Natrox
• Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc.
• QMATIC
• Athelas