Monday, October 5
11:30 am -12:30 pm Golf Registration, Driving Range, Putting Green
12:30 pm – 5:00 pm Golf Tournament Shotgun start
5:00 pm – ? Awards and Reception
Tuesday, October 6
7:30 am – 5:00 pm Registration open
8:00 am Coffee & Conversations Networking Breakfast
9:00 am President’s Welcome & Conference Kick-Off
9:15 am – 5:00 pm Sessions
5:00 pm – 9:00 pm Networking reception with live music
Sessions Include*:
Keynote: The Team Is the Technology: Building Human Capability in the Age of Automation
Mike Mosquito, CHCIO, MBA, PMP, CDH-E with Fox Rehab
This keynote is designed for the Virginia HIMSS Annual Conference that challenges healthcare leaders to rethink team building as a strategic capability, not a traditional HR exercise. The presentation explores how the rapid pace of AI, automation, digital transformation, and innovation is outpacing the way organizations educate, train, onboard, and develop their people.
Mike Mosquito connects the challenges facing both emerging professionals entering the workforce and experienced professionals who must continuously reskill with the realities of healthcare transformation. The central message is simple: organizations will not win because they have the most technology, they will win because their people can learn, adapt, collaborate, and execute faster together.
The keynote introduces a practical framework for building future-ready teams around five commitments: Clarity, Trust, Speed, Learning, and Accountability. Attendees will see how stronger communication, psychological safety, faster decision-making, continuous learning, and shared ownership directly affect healthcare technology adoption and organizational performance. The session concludes with a highly actionable 30-day team-building sprint that leaders can immediately apply to initiatives such as AI adoption, cybersecurity, EHR optimization, ServiceNow, data governance, and patient access.
Key takeaway: In an era where technology changes constantly, the most important technology an organization can develop is its team.
From Federal Cuts to State Choices: Implications of HR 1 for Virginia Hospitals
Julie Dime, with Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association
As Virginia prepares for the 2027 General Assembly session, healthcare leaders face a rapidly evolving policy environment shaped by HR 1. Julie’s presentation will explore the intersection of federal reforms and state policy choices, outlining the implications for hospital finances, patient access, and the long-term sustainability of Virginia’s healthcare system.
Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Threat Trends, Impacts, and What You Can Do
Genevieve Marquardt with Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Healthcare organizations continue to be prime targets for cyberattacks due to the high value of patient data and the need for uninterrupted care. This session will provide an accessible overview of today’s most pressing cyber threats affecting the healthcare sector. Attendees will learn how these attacks impact safety, privacy, and continuity of care, and why everyone, from clinical staff and operational teams to executive leadership, plays a crucial role in mitigating risks. The presentation will conclude with practical steps everyone can take to strengthen their organization’s cybersecurity posture and contribute to a more resilient healthcare ecosystem.
Mind Over Capacity: Rethinking the Workforce Equation Through Cognitive Capacity
Craig Joseph, MD and Brandy Killion, DNP with Nordic Global
Health systems have spent decades measuring productivity through FTEs, RVUs, visit volumes, and staffing ratios. Yet as clinician shortages persist, administrative complexity grows, and AI continues to reshape care delivery, a new constraint has emerged: cognitive capacity.
In this thought-provoking session, Dr. Joseph and Dr. Killion will explore the neuroscience of attention, task switching, and decision fatigue to illustrate why many organizations are exhausting one of their most valuable resources: expert clinical judgment. Attendees will learn how leading health systems are reducing interruptions, redesigning workflows, leveraging AI as a cognitive copilot, and redistributing work across care teams to protect clinician attention and expand effective capacity without simply adding more staff.
Through real-world healthcare case studies and practical implementation strategies, this presentation challenges traditional workforce planning and introduces a new leadership imperative: treating cognitive bandwidth as a measurable and manageable enterprise asset. Participants will leave with actionable ideas to improve clinician well-being, increase operational efficiency, and create sustainable capacity for the future of healthcare.
Workforce Well-Being Update & The Breen Scale
Melissa Zuckerman with Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation
Melissa Zuckerman will provide an update on the important work of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation and explore the growing importance of workforce well-being in healthcare. Attendees will also be introduced to the Breen Scale and learn how it can help healthcare organizations better understand, measure and improve clinician well-being.
Clinical Leadership Panel
Maruf Haider, MD with Carilion Clinic
Jenna Dziuba, MSN, RN with Centra
Meg Atkins with Riverside Health
Charles Frazier, MD with Riverside Health
CISO Panel
Paul Curylo with Inova
Duc Lai with University of Maryland Medical System
Heather Costa with Mayo Clinic
John Hunt with Centra
Data & Analytics Presentation
Aaron Koehl with Riverside Health
Wednesday, October 7
8:00 am Breakfast and Registration
9:00 am Welcome Back: Day 2
9:15 am – 4:30 pm Sessions
Sessions Include*:
Keynote: From Richmond to Washington, DC: Public Policy in Action for Digital Health
Alana Lerer, MPH, PMP, Senior Government Relations Manager at HIMSS
This session will highlight HIMSS public policy priorities, the importance of advocacy, key Virginia digital health state bills and programs, and an overview of developments at the Federal level. We’ll walk through the state bills most worth watching this session, what’s at stake and how to use your voice for change through the Virginia Chapter.
The Quantum Countdown: A Practical Roadmap to Post-Quantum Readiness
Rob Garbee with Carilion Clinic
This session will explain in plain language, how future quantum computers could weaken many of the security tools organizations rely on today to protect data, verify identities, and keep online communications private. The session will show why this matters now, including the risk that criminals may steal encrypted information today and unlock it years later when more powerful technology becomes available. Using practical business and healthcare examples, attendees will learn where this risk may exist, which information and systems should be addressed first, what questions to ask technology vendors, and how to begin a simple 90-day readiness effort that supports a longer-term transition through 2035.
The Power of One: Integrating TPRM and Intake to Transform Health IT Governance
Cara Coleman with UVA Health
At most health systems, third-party risk management still lives in silos — one team fields vendor intake requests, another runs risk assessments, and governance committees weigh in late, disconnected from the process that fed them. UVA Health set out to close those gaps, and the result is a genuinely unified “front door” for risk.
This session walks through how UVA Health built a single, integrated intake workflow that routes every request through one front door — powered by ServiceNow for intake orchestration and Censinet for third-party risk assessment — and connects it directly to the committee structures that actually govern the decisions: Risk Assessment, Data Governance, AI Governance, and Health IT Portfolio Management and Technical Review. Rather than each group evaluating risk in isolation, outcomes now flow into a shared process where the right leaders see the right assessment at the right stage, cutting duplication, closing visibility gaps, and giving executives a single, defensible picture of third-party and technology risk across the enterprise.
For any organization wrestling with fragmented intake, siloed committees, or a TPRM program that can’t keep pace with vendor and AI risk, this is a rare look at what a new TPRM integrated model actually looks like in production at scale. Attendees will leave with practical lessons on platform integration, committee design, and change management they can apply immediately — this is one session in the HIT governance track you won’t want to miss.
Building the Digital Foundation for AI in Public Health
Arman Latif with Virginia Dept of Health
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming healthcare and public health, but successful AI adoption requires far more than selecting the right technology. AI is less of a tool and more of a shift in mindset—changing how organizations think about data, decision-making, workforce productivity, and public health outcomes.
Realizing the value of AI depends on trusted data, modern digital platforms, interoperable systems, strong governance, and an organizational culture that embraces innovation while maintaining public trust. Rather than asking, “What AI tool should we use?” leaders should ask, “How do we transform the way we work to fully leverage AI?”
Drawing on real-world experiences from the Virginia Department of Health, this session will explore how public health organizations can build the digital foundation necessary to responsibly adopt AI. Topics include data governance, interoperability, enterprise modernization, cloud strategy, responsible AI governance, and practical AI use cases that improve both administrative operations and public health decision-making.
Attendees will leave with a leadership framework for moving beyond AI experimentation to sustainable organizational transformation—one where AI augments human expertise, improves operational efficiency, and enables faster, more informed public health decisions.
CIO Panel
Sonny Sapra with UVA Health
Arman Latif with Virginia Dept of Health
Sanjeev Sah with Centra
Dennis Lee with Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters
Ellen Wiegand with VCU Health
Closing Awards, Door Prize Giveaway, President’s Conference Wrap-Up