
Top 10 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2020: Cerner Government Services’ Travis Dalton
Travis Dalton serves as the first president of Cerner Government Services, overseeing more than 5,000 Cerner associates and 40 partner companies working to provide the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs with a new, interoperable electronic health record. With more than 1,955 sites of care serving 18 million service members, veterans and beneficiaries, these programs

Top 10 Health Execs to Watch in 2020: Halfaker and Associates’ Dawn Halfaker
Dawn Halfaker founded Halfaker and Associates, a professional services and technology solutions firm, in 2006. Prior to her consulting career, she served as a military police officer in the U.S. Army, holding several leadership positions and earning a Purple Heart and Bronze Star for her service after being wounded during a combat patrol near Baghdad

Top 10 Health Execs to Watch in 2020: Perspecta’s Bill Lovell
As Perspecta, Inc.’s senior vice president and general manager of the health group, Bill Lovell leverages more than 30 years of experience in areas like federal program management and financial management, business process re-engineering, business enterprise architecture, health IT operations and health system performance monitoring and reporting. Lovell leads strategic planning and support for customers across

Top 10 Health Execs to Watch in 2020: Medical Science & Computing’s Anna Koroleva
Anna Koroleva leads the Life Sciences & Bioinformatics division of Medical Science & Computing, a Dovel Technologies company. With more than 15 years of leadership in building successful teams to support and deliver on customer missions, she brings deep expertise in the federal health and life sciences industry. Koroleva joined the leadership team of MSC

Top 10 Health Execs to Watch in 2020: GDIT’s Kamal Narang
As the head of GDIT’s Federal Health Sector, Kamal Narang has integrated three different health units — following two mergers in four years — into a cohesive, GDIT team dedicated to an enduring commitment to value, innovation and service delivery in support of its customers’ mission. “To us, customer acknowledgment of our partnership approach through

Top 10 Health Execs to Watch in 2020: Leidos’ Michael Jackman
Leidos named Michael Jackman Health Group chief operating officer in January, and he has since overseen the group’s daily operations and is working closely with the leadership teams to deliver platforms and services that help address current health care challenges. And while Jackman has been with Leidos for a few months, the company has a

Top 10 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2020: Northrop Grumman’s Yolanda Curtis
In 2019, Yolanda Curtis was tapped to transition from leading a portfolio of health IT programs to the director for the entire Health Protection Solutions Operating Unit at Northrop Grumman. She was chosen for her focus on top program performance, business growth and building strong teams where employees can work at their best. She also has

Top 10 Health Execs to Watch in 2020: MAXIMUS’ Dr. Michael S. Weiner
Since joining MAXIMUS in July 2018 as chief medical officer, Dr. Michael S. Weiner has relied on his quarter-century of experience in the clinical and technology fields to develop strategies that have continued to fuel the growth of the company’s health services business. He’s been the driving force behind the overall strategic direction and oversight

Top 10 Health Care Leaders to Watch: Theresa Holder, VP of Veterans and Military Health, Optum
Theresa Holder came to Optum with a focus on leveraging the company’s 30 years of experience in military and veteran-centric health IT delivery to strengthen the company’s market presence in the health IT space. In 2017 alone, Optum delivered 3.5 million military and veteran health services, and impacted more than 508,000 lives. Involved in many

Top 10 Health Care Leaders to Watch: Steve Sousa, VP, Consulting Services, CGI Federal
Steve Sousa has over 20 years’ experience in both the public and private health care sectors. He originally completed the core requirements for medical school to become a physician. However, while writing a health care column for a small New England publication, Sousa first saw the rise of the internet and became driven by the

Top 10 Health Care Leaders to Watch: Kamal Narang, VP, Federal Health Sector, GDIT
Kamal Narang has over 20 years of experience supporting federal health customers throughout his career. Over the past 11 years, Narang has nurtured the Federal Health Group at General Dynamics Information Technology, growing it into a force to be reckoned with. His team consists of over 3,000 professionals. The GDIT Federal Health Group supports contracts

Top 10 Health Care Leaders to Watch: Melissa Chapman, VP, Health IT Business Development, Salient CRGT
Melissa Chapman brings a great deal of government technology experience to the health care field, having been chief information officer for both the Health and Human Services Department and the Food and Drug Administration. It was during her time at HHS she established the National Federal Health Architecture, a 26-agency partnership that established a shared,
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