Speakers

Christopher Anello serves as the Federal Healthcare Solution Consulting Leader at ServiceNow, supporting VA, DHA, and HHS as they drive digital acceleration across the enterprise. Before leading the team, he was the Enterprise Architect for all ServiceNow Federal Civilian customers helping align business challenges to architecture roadmaps. He helped define the ServiceNow operating model for Federal customers to scale the platform and unlock value achieving strategic outcomes. Over the past seven years Chris as help advise multiple federal customers along their ServiceNow digital transformation journey. 

About ServiceNow in Healthcare

ServiceNow makes work better across the enterprise. Getting simple stuff done at work can be easy and getting complex multi‑step tasks completed can be painless. In this new digital era of Healthcare and Life Sciences, organizations must re-center their operational focus around improving experiences and long-term outcomes for patients, their clinicians, and staff across the entire continuum of care. Our applications automate, predict, digitize, and optimize business processes and tasks, across the delivery of care. ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) is how work gets done. For more information, visit: https://www.servicenow.com/products/healthcare-life-sciences.html.

Keith Bocian is HHS-OIG’s first Senior Data Scientist. In this role, he helps to ensure AI and ML-
related projects are aligned to organizational business requirements as well as with departmental and federal AI strategies. He also leads a team of automation, data engineering and data science professionals to build NLP and automation solutions understandable by end users who do not have a background in analytics.

Keith has earned a bachelor’s degree in data science from Montana Technological University, a
bachelor’s in geological sciences from Brown University, a master’s in business administration
from Georgetown University, and certifications in a variety of cloud platforms including AWS
and Azure. In his spare time, Keith is a violinist.

Kevin Fu is Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity at U.S. FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) and Program Director for Cybersecurity, Digital Health Center of Excellence (DHCoE). Fu is also Associate Professor of EECS at the University of Michigan where he directs the Security and Privacy Research Group (SPQR.eecs.umich.edu). He is most known for the original 2008 cybersecurity research paper showing vulnerabilities in an implantable cardiac defibrillator by sending specially crafted radio waves to induce uncontrolled ventricular fibrillation via an unintended wireless control channel. https://www.secure-medicine.org/hubfs/public/publications/icd-study.pdf  The prescient research led to over a decade of revolutionary improvements at medical device manufacturers, global regulators, and international healthcare safety standards bodies just as ransomware and other malicious software began to disrupt clinical workflow at hospitals worldwide.

Kevin was recognized as an IEEE Fellow, Sloan Research Fellow, MIT Technology Review TR35 Innovator of the Year, Fed100 Award recipient, and recipient of an IEEE Security and Privacy Test of Time Award. Fu has testified in the U.S. House and Senate on matters of information security and has written commissioned work on trustworthy medical device software for the U.S. National Academy of Medicine. He co-chaired the AAMI cybersecurity working group to create the first FDA-recognized standards to improve the security of medical device manufacturing. He founded the Archimedes Center for Healthcare and Device Security (secure-medicine.org). Kevin serves on the Editorial Board of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) on Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology. He is a founding member of the N95decon.org team for emergency reuse decontamination of N95 masks during PPE shortages. Fu served as a member of the U.S. NIST Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board and federal science advisory groups. Eleven years ago, Fu served as a visiting scientist at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. Fu received his B.S., M.Eng., and Ph.D. from MIT. He earned a certificate of artisanal bread making from the French Culinary Institute and is an intermediate level salsa dancer.

Michelle Holko, PhD, PMP, is a strategic innovator working at the intersection of biology,
technology, and security. She is currently a Principal Architect and Scientist at Google working
as the technical lead with the Google Cloud healthcare and life sciences team. She also holds a PI appointment at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley, leading a
research area at the intersection of biotech and cybersecurity. Prior to joining Google, she
served in government as a Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF), during which time she worked
with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency (CISA), the Department of Defense (DoD) Chemical and Biological Defense Program
(CBDP), the NIH’s All of Us Research Program, HHS BARDA, OSTP and NSC. Prior to joining the PIF program, she worked with DARPA and HHS BARDA, and was a fellow in the 2018 cohort of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security’s Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative. She has also served as a Staff Scientist at NIH’s NCBI, working with the primary data archives to promote re-use and re-analysis of biomedical research data. Dr. Holko’s technical expertise is in genomics and bioinformatics, and she has experience working on pandemic prevention and preparedness, infectious diseases, cancer, biosurveillance, biosecurity, data science, emerging technologies, health technologies, precision medicine, cybersecurity, and machine learning/artificial intelligence. Dr. Holko is an inclusive, empathetic leader, interested in building security into biotechnology and health innovations to promote innovations in biomedical research. She has spent her career leveraging technology to foster scientific discovery.

Paul Horan is the Principal Sales Engineer for Snowflake Public Sector. Paul’s career in Information Technology has spanned nearly 35 years and, in that time, he’s gained experience with nearly every relational database platform on the market. Paul has covered the Federal territory as a Technical Sales Engineer since 2006 and joined Snowflake in November of 2017. Paul currently resides in Arlington, VA with his wife and son.

Ram D. Sriram is currently the chief of the Software and Systems Division, Information Technology Laboratory, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Before joining the Software and Systems Division, Sriram was the leader of the Design and Process group in the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division, Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, where he conducted research on standards for interoperability of computer-aided design systems. He was also the manager of the Sustainable Manufacturing Program. Prior to joining NIST, he was on the engineering faculty (1986-1994) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was instrumental in setting up the Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory. At MIT, Sriram initiated the MIT-DICE project, which was one of the pioneering projects in collaborative engineering and documented in the book entitled Distributed and Integrative Collaborative Engineering Design, Sarven Publishers, 2002.

Sriram has extensive experience in developing knowledge-based expert systems, natural language interfaces, machine learning, object-oriented software development, life-cycle product and process models, geometrical modelers, object-oriented databases for industrial applications, health care informatics, bioinformatics, and bioimaging. He has consulted for several leading corporations all over the world. His client list (during his tenure at MIT) included Boeing, GE, NTT Data (Japan), NASA, Xerox Corporation, United Technologies, IIC (Spain).

Sriram has co-authored or authored nearly 275 publications, including several books on Artificial Intelligence. He has published in a wide range of journals in engineering, computer science, and health care fields. The papers he and his group wrote have won many recognitions and awards, including many best paper awards and most cited paper awards. Sriram received several awards including: an NSF's Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989); ASME Design Automation Award (2011); ASME CIE Distinguished Service Award (2014); the Washington Academy of Sciences' Distinguished Career in Engineering Sciences Award (2015);  ASME CIE Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), CMU CEE Lt. Col. Christopher Raible Distinguished Public Service Award (2018), and 2021 IIT Madras Distinguished Alumni Award.

Sriram was a founding co-editor of the International Journal for AI in Engineering (1986). He also served on the Executive Committee of the ASME's Computers in Engineering Division for six years, including as its chair.  Sriram's other professional activities include the following: an associate editor of ACM Computing Surveys and IEEE Transactions on Computers,  co-chair of NITRD's Software Productivity, Sustainability, and Quality (SPSQ) group, President-Elect of the Washington Academy of Sciences,  and federal representative to ONC's Health IT Advisory Committee.  He serves as the chair of the 2021 IEEE Computer Society Fellow Evaluating Committee. 

Sriram is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME),  the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Solid Modeling Association (SMA),  International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), and the Washington Academy of Sciences (WAS). He is also a Distinguished Member (life) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Senior Member (life) of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Micky Tripathi is the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he leads the formulation of the federal health IT strategy and coordinates federal health IT policies, standards, programs, and investments. 

Dr. Tripathi has over 20 years of experience across the health IT landscape. He most recently served as Chief Alliance Officer for Arcadia, a health care data and software company focused on population health management and value-based care, the project manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of FHIR, and a board member of HL7, the Sequoia Project, the CommonWell Health Alliance, and the CARIN Alliance.

Dr. Tripathi served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company. He was also the founding President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, a statewide HIE partnered with the Regenstrief Institute, an Executive Advisor to investment firm LRVHealth, and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

He holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University, and an AB in political science from Vassar College. Prior to receiving his PhD, he was a Presidential Management Fellow and a senior operations research analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC, for which he received the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal.

Tim Boltz, Sales Director, Carahsoft