BMIR Colloquium: Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Veterans Affairs
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Speaker:
Kimberly McManus, PhD, MS: Deputy CTO of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Veteran Affairs
Bio:
Dr. Kimberly McManus is the Deputy CTO of Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Veterans Affairs where she leads efforts to improve AI capabilities across the agency. She initially joined the federal government as a Presidential Innovation Fellow in the Office of the CTO at the VA in 2020. Her expertise is at the nexus of software engineering, machine learning and digital health. Previous to VA, she built ML and AI products in industry at 23andMe, LinkedIn and start-ups. She has a bachelor’s degree from MIT, and a MS and PhD from Stanford University, in Biomedical Informatics and Population Genetics, respectively, where she developed computational and statistical methods with genomic data.
Abstract:
Dr. McManus will discuss her career journey from Stanford, through industry and start-ups, to her current role as the Deputy CTO of Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Veterans Affairs. She will describe the current state of AI/ML at VA and VA’s overall approach to AI/ML moving forward across four workstreams: Priority Use Cases, Workforce, Infrastructure and Policy. In particular, Dr. McManus will highlight a project establishing a national clinical text processing infrastructure within VA. She will also touch on the expected impact of the new AI Executive Order 14110 on VA and across government.