Theresa Ann Cullen MD, MS

Dr. Theresa Cullen is the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) Chief Medical Information Officer and also leads VHA’s Health Informatics service areas including Human Factors, Knowledge Based Systems, Applied Informatics Services, and the broadly recognized Barcode program. From February – October, 2013, Dr. Cullen was the Acting Deputy Director of the Department of Defense (DoD)/Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Interagency Program Office (IPO). While at the IPO, Dr. Cullen worked, in concert with the IPO Director, to lead DoD and VA in the development and implementation of the integrated Electronic Health Record and the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record Health Initiatives that allow for health information interoperability between the Departments to better serve Servicemembers, Veterans and other eligible beneficiaries.

Prior to joining VA in February 2012, Dr. Cullen was the Director of Health and Human Services Domain Information Technology Program Management Office (PMO) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In this position, she helped coordinate the health information technology investments through HHS. Dr. Cullen started her career with Indian Health Service (IHS) in 1984 as a family practice physician and was a clinical director on the Tohono O’odham reservation from 1994-1999. She was the senior medical informatics consultant for IHS from 1999-2006. Starting in 2006 until June 2011, she was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director of the Office of Information Technology for IHS.