Manny Dominguez PhD

Manny Dominguez, Ph.D., is the Deputy Chief Learning Officer (DCLO) for the Veterans Health Administration, Employee Education System (EES), and one of his many responsibilities is building a virtual medical center for the Veterans Health Administration.

Dr. Manny Dominguez is a senior technology executive that has served our nation as a US Marine, a Gulf War Veteran, and retired as the CIO of the US Air Force’s Medical Modeling and Simulation Program. He has served as a senior executive in industry and for the Veterans Health Administration, leading innovation in education technologies.

In his various leadership positions, Dominguez has served as a corporate CIO for various large corporations and as an IT turnaround specialist. His accomplishments and reputation for pioneering technical innovation, along with his Ph.D. in Computer Technology in Education, have resulted in many keynote speaker engagements, including Johns Hopkins and the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Dr. Dominguez launched the US Air Force Medical Simulation Program, which included serious medical games, virtual reality-based training, and dozens of simulation centers across the globe. He was also the inventor of the DoD’s first virtual hospital (The Virtual Medical Center).

In 2008, after leading the implementation of the DoD’s first EMR on the battlefield in Iraq, Afghanistan, and 12 surrounding nations, the Air Force Surgeon General selected Dominguez to stand up the world’s largest healthcare training campus, the Military Education and Training Campus (METC) in San Antonio, Texas. With 24,000 annual graduates, larger than all military service academies combined, he provided the vision, strategy, and execution, which resulted in a successful campus launch. Dominguez was commended by BRAC for completing the campus within 24 months, on time and within budget, with complex data centers, 24,000 computers, large IT staff, and infrastructure throughout.

In the VA, he led information technology business lines to advance training by providing dynamic learning and developing a high-performance VHA workforce. He also led the management and oversight of VHA’s clinical simulation program, which supported 300,000 employees.

His recent projects underway have included a business intelligence system and a comprehensive education & training portal for 300,000 personnel. A medical gaming department with its first 10 games for doctors and nurses, and he is building the next VA hospital, which will reside entirely online, the VA Virtual Medical Center. In addition, he’s managing over a dozen highly complex innovative projects.