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Federal Partners Panel Participants
Assistant
Secretary for Preparedness and Response National
Disaster Medical System (ASPR – NDMS)
Dr. Robert Bencic
Dr. Robert Bencic
Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Thomas G.
Savel, MD, Medical Officer, Lead- Grid Technologies,
National Center for Public Health Informatics
GB Kesarinath,
MS Assistant Director of Technology, Division of
Informatics Shared Services
Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Henry Chao,
Chief Technology Officer, CMS
Rick Friedman,
Director, Division of State Systems,
CMS/Center for Medicaid and State Operations
CMS/Center for Medicaid and State Operations
Department of
Defense (DoD)
LCDR Steve
Steffensen, MC USN, Chief, AITG/TATRC
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Cheryl Austein-Casnoff, MPH, Associate Administrator, Office of Health Information Technology
National Cancer
Institute (NCI)
George A.
Komatsoulis, Ph.D.,
Deputy Director, NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT)
Deputy Director, NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT)
Social Security
Administration (SSA)
Debbie Somers,
Senior Advisor to the Deputy Commissioner
for Systems
Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA)
Tim Cromwell,
Director, Standards and Interoperability,
Chief Health Informatics Office,
Veterans Health Administration Office of
Information
Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
Kshemendra Paul,
Chief Architect
