Dr. Robert Wah

Dr. Robert Wah was DXC (formerly CSC) Global Chief Medical Officer and former President of the American Medical Association. He served more than 23 years on Active Duty in the Navy and was the Associate CIO for the Military Health System where he led the requirements team of over 100 physicians, nurses, pharmacists and managed the portfolio of over $900,000,000 annual spend on Health IT tools covering 520 clinics and hospitals worldwide for 10 million patients.

At HHS, Dr. Wah served as the first Deputy National Coordinator for Health IT. He set up the ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT) and was Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Wah was vice chairman of the Navy's largest Ob/Gyn department with more than 200,000 patient visits and 4000 annual deliveries and has served on the faculties of Harvard Medical School, University of California, San Diego and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

He also serves on the Board of Directors for the McKnight Brain Research Foundation and the American Telemedicine Association. Dr. Wah did his training at National Naval Medical Center Bethesda and Harvard Medical School and holds two board certifications. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. Dr. Wah currently sees patients, does surgery and trains residents and fellows at the NIH (National Institutes of Health) and Walter Reed National Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland.