2025 Healthcare Summit | Potomac Officers Club
WHAT
Potomac Officers Club is thrilled to host our year-closing 2025 Healthcare Summit, an essential annual GovCon conference where the most pressing topics in healthcare technology and citizen user experience are discussed. Every year at this event, innovative new ideas are formulated, problems are solved collaboratively amongst speakers and guests alike, and attendees are left with an acute sense of where the federal healthcare industry stands.
The foremost thought leaders in government healthcare technology — particularly those supporting warfighter health at places like the Defense Health Agency and Department of Veterans Affairs — will take the stage alongside prominent figures from industry during informative keynote speeches and exciting panel crosstalk.
If you’re looking to start new business or strengthen existing partnerships with organizations such as the Department of Health and Human Services or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this is the event for you.
This summit was originally scheduled for December 4th, 2025 but is rescheduled to take place on February 12th, 2026.
*This event is closed to media.
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Barclay Butler
Deputy Commissioner for Operations and Chief Operating Officer, Office of Operations
Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
Cori Hughes
Director, Program Integration
Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM)
Srinivas Panguluri
Acting Chief Information Officer
Health Resources & Services Administration
Bill Tinston
Director
Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM)
Speakers
Lt Col. David Alt
Chief of Emerging Capabilities, Enterprise Intelligence & Data Solutions
Program Executive Office, Defense Management Systems (PEO DHMS)
Dr. Jesus Caban
CDAO
Defense Health Agency (DHA)
Dr. Evan Carey
Acting Director, National Artificial Intelligence Institute
Department of Veteran Affairs
Mohammed Sohail Chaudhry
VP and CIO, Former CTO, of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Precise Software
Dr. Michael Chiang
Director, National Eye Institute
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ricky Clark
Director, Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Chrissy Cocrane
SVP, Health & Civ Market
LMI
Todd Couts
Deputy Director of the Business Services Group
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Robert Cunningham
Executive Director for Enterprise Command Operations
Department of Veteran Affairs
Jothi Dugar
Chief Information Security Officer, NIH Center for Information Technology/NIH CIT
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Anna Ehrhardt
VP, Digital Transformation Strategy for Federal Health
General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.
Justin Fessler
VP, Public Sector
LogicMonitor
Thomas "Pat" Flanders
Chief Information Officer for Medical Systems (J-6)
Defense Health Agency (DHA)
Amy Gleason
Acting Administrator of U.S. Doge Service & Strategic Advisor to CMS
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Ken Hofgesang
Vice President of Health
RELI Group
Katie Holmes
Deputy Director, Division of Quality Systems, Governance, Engineering, and Development
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Travis Hoppe
Acting CAIO
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Benjamin Koshy
CISO
Indian Health Service [IHS]
CAPT (Dr.) Victor Lin
Navy Clinical Informatics Specialty Leader
U.S. Navy
David Merrell
Senior Account Executive, Federal
LogicMonitor
James Perkins
Acting Program Executive Officer
Program Executive Office, Defense Healthcare Management Systems (PEO DHMS)
Matthew Quinn
Science Director
Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)
Audrey Reinke
Senior Manager, Federal Healthcare, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS)
Amazon Web Services
Richard Riley
Growth Leader, Health Market
SAIC
Zaki Saleh
SVP, Growth Operations
LMI
Dr. John Scott
VHA Chief Data Officer
Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Dr. Christina Sheets
Program Manager
DoD Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM)
Robert Silverman
CEO
Oddball
Christopher Wallace
Chief of Cybersecurity, Program Executive Office
Defense Healthcare Management Systems (DHMS)
Dr. Richard Woychik
Senior Advisor, Make America Healthy Again Strategy
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Wade Zarriello
Acting Director, Infrastructure Operations
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Agenda
| 7:00am | 8:00am | Networking Reception |
| 8:00am | 8:10am | Welcome & Opening Remarks |
| 8:10am | 8:45am | Opening Keynote: Dr. Barclay Butler and Chrissy Cocrane (Introducer) |
| 8:45am | 9:20am | Morning Keynote: Srinivas Panguluri and Richard Riley (Introducer) |
| 9:20am | 9:50am | Networking Break |
| 9:50am | 10:50am | Panel A: From Legacy to Leading-Edge: CMS Platform Modernization: Todd Couts, Wade Zarriello, Mohammed Sohail Chaudhry, Katie Holmes, and Zaki Saleh (Moderator) |
| 9:50am | 10:50am | Panel B: Faster Benefits, Stronger Confidence: Modernizing Healthcare Delivery: Matthew Quinn, Robert Cunningham, CAPT Victor Lin, and Richard Riley (Moderator) |
| 10:50am | 11:00am | Break |
| 11:00am | 12:00pm | Panel A: Streamlining Government Health Operations: Modern IT Solutions for Efficiency and Impact: James Perkins, Dr. Christina Sheets, Julie Stoner, Ricky Clark, Travis Hoppe, and Audrey Reinke (Moderator) |
| 11:00am | 12:00pm | Panel B: The Role of Observability in Federal Healthcare: Benjamin Koshy, Justin Fessler (Moderator), RDML Tracy Farrill, Chris Wallace, and Jothi Dugar |
| 12:00pm | 1:30pm | Networking Lunch |
| 1:30pm | 2:30pm | Panel A: Cloud-First, AI-Ready: Powering the Next Generation of Public Health Services: Dr. Jesus Caban, David Alt, Amy Gleason, Dr. Evan Carey, Pat Flanders, and Robert Silverman (Moderator) |
| 1:30pm | 2:30pm | Panel B: Data-Powered Prevention: Supporting the "Make America Healthy Again" Agenda: Dr. Richard Woychik, Dr. Michael Chiang, Ken Hofgesang (Moderator) and Dr. John Scott |
| 2:30pm | 2:45pm | Networking Break |
| 2:45pm | 3:15pm | Closing Fireside Chat: David Merrell (Introducer) - Bill Tinston and Cori Hughes |
| 3:15pm | 3:20pm | Closing Comments |
