2025 Healthcare Summit | Potomac Officers Club
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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
Speakers
Lt Col. David Alt
Chief of Emerging Capabilities, Enterprise Intelligence & Data Solutions
Program Executive Office, Defense Management Systems (PEO DHMS)
Matt Brumley
Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems Chief of Staff
Program Executive Office, Defense Management Systems (PEO DHMS)
Dr. Jesus Caban
CDAO
Defense Health Agency (DHA)
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)
Gita Deo
Senior Advisor & Chief of Staff
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Jothi Dugar
Chief Information Security Officer, NIH Center for Information Technology/NIH CIT
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
RDML Tracy Farrill
Principal Deputy of the Assistant Director for Healthcare Administration Functional Champion, MHS GENESIS
Defense Health Agency (DHA)
Justin Fessler
VP, Public Sector
LogicMonitor
Dr. Susan Gregurick
Associate Director for Data Science and Director of the Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Benjamin Koshy
CISO
Indian Health Service [IHS]
James Perkins
Deputy Program Executive Officer
Program Executive Office, Defense Management Systems (PEO DHMS)
Matthew Quinn
Science Director
Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)
Richard Riley
Growth Leader, Health Market
SAIC
Zaki Saleh
SVP, Growth Operations
LMI
Dr. John Scott (Pending Confirmation)
VHA Chief Data Officer
Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Dr. Valerie Seabaugh
Deputy Chief Health Informatics Officer
Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization Office
Dr. Christina Sheets
Program Manager, DHMSM
Program Executive Office, Defense Management Systems (PEO DHMS)
Robert Silverman
CEO
Oddball
Julie Stoner
Senior Director, Health IT Initiatives and EHR Modernization
General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.
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 | 8:05am | Welcome & Opening Remarks |
| 8:05am | 8:45am | Opening Keynote: Thomas Engels |
| 8:45am | 9:20am | Morning Keynote |
| 9:20am | 9:50am | Networking Break |
| 9:50am | 10:50am | Panel A: From Legacy to Leading-Edge: CMS Platform Modernization: Gita Deo, Wade Zarriello, Mohammed Sohail Chaudhry, Matt Brumley, and Zaki Saleh (Moderator) |
| 9:50am | 10:50am | Panel B: Faster Benefits, Stronger Confidence: Modernizing Healthcare Delivery: Dr. Valerie Seabaugh |
| 10:50am | 11:00am | Break |
| 11:00am | 12:00pm | Panel A: Streamlining Government Health Operations: Modern IT Solutions for Efficiency and Impact: James Perkins, Lt Col. Christina Sheets, Julie Stoner, and Ricky Clark |
| 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, Matthew Quinn, David Alt, and Robert Silverman (Moderator) |
| 1:30pm | 2:30pm | Panel B: Data-Powered Prevention: Supporting the "Make America Healthy Again" Agenda: : Dr. Richard Woychik, Dr. Susan Gregurick, Dr. Michael Chiang, and Dr. John Scott (Pending Confirmation) |
| 2:30pm | 2:45pm | Networking Break |
| 2:45pm | 3:15pm | Afternoon Fireside Chat: Bill Tinston and Cori Hughes |
| 3:15pm | 3:45pm | Closing Keynote |
| 3:45pm | 3:50pm | Closing Comments |
