Dr. Terry Adirim is an experienced healthcare executive, advisor to healthcare startups, and health services researcher. She is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine and practiced clinically for over 25 years. She is editor and author of the textbook, Digital Health, AI, and Generative AI in Healthcare: A Concise, Practical Guide for Clinicians and author of an upcoming book, The Prepared Patient:  Your Guide to Beating the Odds and Surviving the Healthcare System for publication by Johns Hopkins University Press. Her government service includes executive appointments as lead physician and program executive director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Electronic Health Record (EHR) Modernization effort where she successfully led the deployment of a new EHR to 4 VA health care sites for a total of 10,000 end users at 52 locations serving over 200,000 patients. Prior to the VA, Dr. Adirim was appointed by the Biden Administration as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD), serving as Acting ASD for Health Affairs and earlier served in a system Chief Medical Officer role as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Services Policy and Oversight.

Additionally, Dr. Adirim served leadership roles in academic medicine including as senior associate dean for clinical affairs, professor of pediatrics and chair of the Department of Integrated Medical Sciences at the Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. In her role as senior associate dean, she was responsible for providing leadership over the College of Medicine’s clinical enterprise, FAU Medicine, including providing vision, strategy and oversight of patient care, clinical translational research activities and the FAU Medicine faculty practice.

Dr. Adirim maintains an academic appointment as Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Prevention and Biostatistics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She has over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and other professional publications.