Dr. Valerie Seabaugh
Deputy Chief Health Informatics Officer
Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization Office
Valerie Seabaugh, M.D., MBA, MSISM, serves as Acting Deputy Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO) for the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM) office. In this role, she supports the CHIO in overseeing business and clinical information technology activities impacting the federal electronic health record and the exchange of health data with private sector partners.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Since joining the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in 2006, Dr. Seabaugh has worked as an anesthesiologist and intensivist physician providing direct patient care at the bedside and via telemedicine as a tele-intensivist. From 2010 to 2017, she served as VA’s National Tele-ICU Lead, helping to build what became VA’s first inpatient telemedicine program (now called the National TeleCritical Care Program). She established and served as founding chairperson of the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Tele-ICU Committee. From 2018 to 2023, she served as the Veterans Integrated Services Network (VISN) CHIO for eight networked VA Medical Centers in Arizona, New Mexico, and Southern California (VA VISN 22). In 2020, she returned on a detail basis as the Medical Director for the National TeleCritical Care Program to manage implementation of the newly funded national program office and develop the project plan for rapid expansion to 51 VA Medical Centers. In her tenure with VA VISN 22, she led a multidisciplinary team to build a tele-emergency care program that allowed patients to have their medical problem addressed by an emergency medicine physician via telemedicine when calling the nurse advice line, avoiding unnecessary travel to the emergency department for an in-person consultation; this model is now the national standard for tele-emergency care.
EDUCATION
Dr. Seabaugh holds a Doctor of Medicine from Loma Linda University, Master of Business Administration and Master of
Science in Information Systems Management from Auburn University, and Bachelor of Science degrees in Biology and Chemistry from St. Louis University. She is board certified in informatics, anesthesia, and critical care medicine.
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