This FORUM IT100 event and awards program occurred December 7th, 2022. Please scroll through this page to see the years winners and more!

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  • Venue: Hilton, McLean, 7920 Jones Branch Drive McLean, VA 22102
The FORUM IT100 Award honors individuals lauded by their peers for driving change and advancement within these communities, going above and beyond to drive innovation and garner positive outcomes, challenge conventional wisdom, and give back to the larger community.
The FORUM Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes those individuals who have made significant contributions throughout their careers.

FORUM IT 100 Speakers

Scott Simpson

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Kelly Moore

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Keith Nakasone

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Jeramiah Sanders

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Kelly Moore

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Keith Nakasone

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2022 FedHealthIT 100 Award Winners

Congratulations to last year’s Awardees!

FHIT 100 2022 Honorees

Kevin Abraham

Chief, Adoption Integration, DOD Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM), Defense Health Management Systems

Andy Acuna

Chief Information Officer, Planned Systems International, Inc.

Terry Adirim, MD

Program Executive Director, EHRM Integration, Department of Veterans Affairs

David Affeldt

President & Chief Executive Officer, GRSi

Lauren Alexanderson

Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Health Delivery, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Jerry Ambrosh

Vice President, SAIC

Doug Barton

Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Engineer, Leidos

Tammy Beckham

Associate Director, Resilient Supply Chain & Shortages Program, Office of the Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration

Jessica Berrellez

Executive Officer, Office of Digital Transformation, Food and Drug Administration

Joan Bishop

Vice President, HighPoint

Robert Bohn

Deputy Director, Office of Financial Information Systems (OFIS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Tim Borchert

Chief Executive Officer, Federal Advisory Partners

George Brittingham

IT Project Manager and Technical Director, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Susan Burke

Sr. Program Director, Cognosante

Julie Bush

Senior Vice President, Federal, Strategic Initiatives, Palantir

Gerald Caron III

Chief Information Officer, Assistant Inspector General for Information Technology, Office of Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services

Jesus Caban, PhD

Chief, Clinical & Research Informatics, NICoE, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Department of Defense

Mohammed Sohail Chaudhry

Chief Technology Officer, Food and Drug Administration

Gary Cobb

Program Manager, Enterprise Service Desk, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Rachele Cooper

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Aptive Resources

Robert Cunningham

Acting Executive Director, Enterprise Command Operations, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Ben Cushing

Chief Architect, Federal Health and Life Sciences, North America Public Sector, Red Hat Consulting

Kurt DelBene

Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Vid Desai

Chief Information Officer, Food and Drug Administration

Danita Dixon

Senior Technical Advisor, Food and Drug Administration

COL (Ret.) Francisco Dominicci

Senior Vice President, B.E.A.T. LLC

Mike Eddings

President & Chief Executive Officer, Optum Serve Technology & Consulting Solutions

Shereef Elnahal, MD

Under Secretary for Health, Department of Veterans Affairs

Rafael Fagundo

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sierra7, Inc.

Elena Fenton

HHS Account Relationship Director, KPMG

Blaine Fitzgerald

Diffusion Specialist, Community Manager, Department of Veterans Affairs

Allen Fredrickson

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Signature Performance

Maria Gaboury

Account Executive, Intersystems

Matthew Garvey

Executive Vice President, Digital Services, Octo

Eric Gonzales

Vice President, Growth and Client Development, Aptive Resources

Ronald Graham

Director, Division of Marketplace IT Operations, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Jeff Grant

Deputy Director of Operations, Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Rhonda Greene-Bruce

Special Assistant, Office of Information Technology, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Macon Hardy

Senior Vice President Business Development, Unissant, Inc.

Derrick Heard

Director, Office of Acquisition & Grants Management, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Claude Hines

Chief Operating Officer, MicroHealth

Jane Hite-Syed

Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, National Government Services

Ray Holder

Executive Strategist, US Federal, AWS

Karen Holloway

Senior Vice President, Chief Market Innovation and Strategy Officer – Public Sector, ICF

Ram Iyer

Chief Data Officer, Food and Drug Administration

Holly Joers

Program Executive Officer, Defense Healthcare Management Systems

Atchut Kanthamani

Chief Executive Officer, Softrams

Michael Kennedy, PhD

Chief Data Officer, SoftDev Incorporated

Anthony Kerlavage, PhD

Director, Center of Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology, National Cancer Institute

Prashanthi Kuchikulla

Director, Service Management Platforms & Tools, Department of Veterans Affairs

Joshua Lashbrook

Digital GI Bill (DGIB) Program Management Officer (PMO), Education Service, Veterans Benefits Administration

Jake Lewis

Deputy to the Deputy Assistant Director – DHA Contracting Activity (DHACA), Defense Health Agency

Manish Malhotra

Chief Executive Officer, Unissant, Inc.

Chris Martin

Director, Financial Management Systems Group (FMSG), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Jason McCarthy

Senior Vice President, Military & Veterans Health Solutions, Leidos

Sandra Mcintyre

Acting Program Manager, Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems (JOMIS), Defense Healthcare Management Systems

Patrick McLoughlin

Vice President, Maximus

Elizabeth McNamara

Associate Director, Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration

Shane McNamee, MD

Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth, Smile Digital Health

Charlie McQuillan

General Manager, Health, Octo

Oki Mek

Chief Information Security Officer, Microsoft Federal Civilian

Ray Mierwald

Senior Data Scientist, Visual Connections

Sophia Myers

Director of Veteran Experiences Services Portfolio, Department of Veterans Affairs

Chris Nichols

Enterprise Intelligence and Data Solutions (EIDS) Program Manager, Defense Healthcare Management Systems

Mark Niemi

Project Controller, Data Quality & Integration, Defense Health Agency

Wendy Nilsen, PhD

Deputy Division Director, Information and Intelligent Systems, NSF

David Norley

Program Manager, Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems (JOMIS), Defense Healthcare Management Systems

Jenna Norton, PhD

Program Director, social determinants of health & health data standards, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health

Nicole Oxley, PhD

President and Chief Executive Officer, Oxley Enterprises, Inc.

Michael Parrish

Chief Acquisition Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs

Melinda Pitchford

Executive Director, National Government Services

Liz Porter

President, Health Group, Leidos

Laura Prietula

Deputy Chief Information Officer, EHRM-IO, Department of Veterans Affairs

Yuri Radams, PhD

Chief Transformation Officer & Executive Vice President of Growth, Chags Health Information Technology, LLC (C-HIT)

Max Ramirez

Assistant Program Manager for Healthcare Delivery to Roles 1 and 2, Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems (JOMIS), Defense Healthcare Management Systems

Rachel Rayfield

Project Manager, Visual Connections

Marc Richardson

Director, Marketplace IT Group, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Edwin Rosas

President, EM Key Solutions, Inc.

Lewis Runnion

Managing Partner, Eleven09 and King Street Technology Partners

COL (Ret.) Bobby Saxon

Deputy Director (Deputy CIO), Office of Information Technology, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Takisha Schulterbrandt, PhD

Chief Executive Officer, BCOMPLEX

Amit Sharma

Director, Division of Technical Operations, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Lynette Sherrill

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Information Security and Chief Information Security Officer, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Sean Smith

Medical Information Delivery Lead, Naval Information Warfare Center – Atlantic, Department of Defense

Travis Sorensen

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Oddball

Steven Sousa

Senior Vice President, Health and Social Services, CGI

Sumesh Sundareswaran

Vice President, Health and Human Services , GDIT

Craig Taylor

Chief Information Security Officer, Food and Drug Administration

Theresa Kim Thomas

Chief Executive Officer, Resolution Think, LLC

Mitchell Thornbrugh

Chief Information Officer, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services

Augie Turano, PhD

Director, Data Migration and Data Syndication, EHR Modernization, Department of Veterans Affairs

Quentin Tyson

Chief Technology Officer, Information Systems Group, CCSQ, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Chris Van Berkel

Managing Director and Military Health Lead, Accenture Federal Services

Tanisha Williams

Deputy Director, Division of End User Support/CMS Connect 2.0 Platform Owner, Office of Information Technology, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Jason Windsor

Vice President, Health IT, GDIT

Robert Wood

Chief Information Security Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Jacklyn Wynn

Vice President, Strategic Programs, GDIT

Krista Yager

Chief Digital Officer, National Government Services

Jane Zentmyer

Director, Architecture and Transformation Division, Office of Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services

Matthew Zullo

Director, Agile Center of Excellence, Office of Information Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

FHIT 100 Hall of Fame Inductees

Kevin Abraham

Chief, Adoption Integration, DOD Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM), Defense Health Management Systems

Andy Acuna

Chief Information Officer, Planned Systems International, Inc.

Terry Adirim, MD

Program Executive Director, EHRM Integration, Department of Veterans Affairs

David Affeldt

President & Chief Executive Officer, GRSi

Lauren Alexanderson

Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Health Delivery, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Jerry Ambrosh

Vice President, SAIC

Doug Barton

Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Engineer, Leidos

Tammy Beckham

Associate Director, Resilient Supply Chain & Shortages Program, Office of the Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration

Jessica Berrellez

Executive Officer, Office of Digital Transformation, Food and Drug Administration

Joan Bishop

Vice President, HighPoint

Robert Bohn

Deputy Director, Office of Financial Information Systems (OFIS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Tim Borchert

Chief Executive Officer, Federal Advisory Partners

George Brittingham

IT Project Manager and Technical Director, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Susan Burke

Sr. Program Director, Cognosante

Julie Bush

Senior Vice President, Federal, Strategic Initiatives, Palantir

Gerald Caron III

Chief Information Officer, Assistant Inspector General for Information Technology, Office of Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services

Jesus Caban, PhD

Chief, Clinical & Research Informatics, NICoE, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Department of Defense

Mohammed Sohail Chaudhry

Chief Technology Officer, Food and Drug Administration

Gary Cobb

Program Manager, Enterprise Service Desk, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Rachele Cooper

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Aptive Resources

Robert Cunningham

Acting Executive Director, Enterprise Command Operations, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Ben Cushing

Chief Architect, Federal Health and Life Sciences, North America Public Sector, Red Hat Consulting

Kurt DelBene

Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Vid Desai

Chief Information Officer, Food and Drug Administration

Danita Dixon

Senior Technical Advisor, Food and Drug Administration

COL (Ret.) Francisco Dominicci

Senior Vice President, B.E.A.T. LLC

Mike Eddings

President & Chief Executive Officer, Optum Serve Technology & Consulting Solutions

Shereef Elnahal, MD

Under Secretary for Health, Department of Veterans Affairs

Rafael Fagundo

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sierra7, Inc.

Elena Fenton

HHS Account Relationship Director, KPMG

Blaine Fitzgerald

Diffusion Specialist, Community Manager, Department of Veterans Affairs

Allen Fredrickson

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Signature Performance

Maria Gaboury

Account Executive, Intersystems

Matthew Garvey

Executive Vice President, Digital Services, Octo

Eric Gonzales

Vice President, Growth and Client Development, Aptive Resources

Ronald Graham

Director, Division of Marketplace IT Operations, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Jeff Grant

Deputy Director of Operations, Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Rhonda Greene-Bruce

Special Assistant, Office of Information Technology, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Macon Hardy

Senior Vice President Business Development, Unissant, Inc.

Derrick Heard

Director, Office of Acquisition & Grants Management, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Claude Hines

Chief Operating Officer, MicroHealth

Jane Hite-Syed

Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, National Government Services

Ray Holder

Executive Strategist, US Federal, AWS

Karen Holloway

Senior Vice President, Chief Market Innovation and Strategy Officer – Public Sector, ICF

Ram Iyer

Chief Data Officer, Food and Drug Administration

Holly Joers

Program Executive Officer, Defense Healthcare Management Systems

Atchut Kanthamani

Chief Executive Officer, Softrams

Michael Kennedy, PhD

Chief Data Officer, SoftDev Incorporated

Anthony Kerlavage, PhD

Director, Center of Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology, National Cancer Institute

Prashanthi Kuchikulla

Director, Service Management Platforms & Tools, Department of Veterans Affairs

Joshua Lashbrook

Digital GI Bill (DGIB) Program Management Officer (PMO), Education Service, Veterans Benefits Administration

Jake Lewis

Deputy to the Deputy Assistant Director – DHA Contracting Activity (DHACA), Defense Health Agency

Manish Malhotra

Chief Executive Officer, Unissant, Inc.

Chris Martin

Director, Financial Management Systems Group (FMSG), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Jason McCarthy

Senior Vice President, Military & Veterans Health Solutions, Leidos

Sandra Mcintyre

Acting Program Manager, Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems (JOMIS), Defense Healthcare Management Systems

Patrick McLoughlin

Vice President, Maximus

Elizabeth McNamara

Associate Director, Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration

Shane McNamee, MD

Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth, Smile Digital Health

Charlie McQuillan

General Manager, Health, Octo

Oki Mek

Chief Information Security Officer, Microsoft Federal Civilian

Ray Mierwald

Senior Data Scientist, Visual Connections

Sophia Myers

Director of Veteran Experiences Services Portfolio, Department of Veterans Affairs

Chris Nichols

Enterprise Intelligence and Data Solutions (EIDS) Program Manager, Defense Healthcare Management Systems

Mark Niemi

Project Controller, Data Quality & Integration, Defense Health Agency

Wendy Nilsen, PhD

Deputy Division Director, Information and Intelligent Systems, NSF

David Norley

Program Manager, Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems (JOMIS), Defense Healthcare Management Systems

Jenna Norton, PhD

Program Director, social determinants of health & health data standards, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health

Nicole Oxley, PhD

President and Chief Executive Officer, Oxley Enterprises, Inc.

Michael Parrish

Chief Acquisition Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs

Melinda Pitchford

Executive Director, National Government Services

Liz Porter

President, Health Group, Leidos

Laura Prietula

Deputy Chief Information Officer, EHRM-IO, Department of Veterans Affairs

Yuri Radams, PhD

Chief Transformation Officer & Executive Vice President of Growth, Chags Health Information Technology, LLC (C-HIT)

Max Ramirez

Assistant Program Manager for Healthcare Delivery to Roles 1 and 2, Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems (JOMIS), Defense Healthcare Management Systems

Rachel Rayfield

Project Manager, Visual Connections

Marc Richardson

Director, Marketplace IT Group, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Edwin Rosas

President, EM Key Solutions, Inc.

Lewis Runnion

Managing Partner, Eleven09 and King Street Technology Partners

COL (Ret.) Bobby Saxon

Deputy Director (Deputy CIO), Office of Information Technology, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Takisha Schulterbrandt, PhD

Chief Executive Officer, BCOMPLEX

Amit Sharma

Director, Division of Technical Operations, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Lynette Sherrill

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Information Security and Chief Information Security Officer, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Sean Smith

Medical Information Delivery Lead, Naval Information Warfare Center – Atlantic, Department of Defense

Travis Sorensen

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Oddball

Steven Sousa

Senior Vice President, Health and Social Services, CGI

Sumesh Sundareswaran

Vice President, Health and Human Services , GDIT

Craig Taylor

Chief Information Security Officer, Food and Drug Administration

Theresa Kim Thomas

Chief Executive Officer, Resolution Think, LLC

Mitchell Thornbrugh

Chief Information Officer, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services

Augie Turano, PhD

Director, Data Migration and Data Syndication, EHR Modernization, Department of Veterans Affairs

Quentin Tyson

Chief Technology Officer, Information Systems Group, CCSQ, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Chris Van Berkel

Managing Director and Military Health Lead, Accenture Federal Services

Tanisha Williams

Deputy Director, Division of End User Support/CMS Connect 2.0 Platform Owner, Office of Information Technology, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Jason Windsor

Vice President, Health IT, GDIT

Robert Wood

Chief Information Security Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Jacklyn Wynn

Vice President, Strategic Programs, GDIT

Krista Yager

Chief Digital Officer, National Government Services

Jane Zentmyer

Director, Architecture and Transformation Division, Office of Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services

Matthew Zullo

Director, Agile Center of Excellence, Office of Information Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

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