David began his career as a biostatistician, then became CIO, and ultimately rose to the position of CEO at Wadley Research Institute and Blood Bank in Dallas, TX. He returned to health information technology at Texas Health Resources, where he functioned as SVP & CIO for 15 years. He then worked for five years as the SVP & CIO at Baylor Health Care System. In 2012, David accepted a White House appointment to serve as the first Principal Deputy National Coordinator, Chief of Staff, and CIO at ONC (Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator) through 2013. David returned to the private sector as CIO of GetWellNetwork through 2015 and then served as a member of the Board of Directors until 2018 when it was sold.
In his career, David led talented teams as large as 770 with budgets more than $500M that authored, acquired, and implemented many forms of health information technologies including EHRs from all the major vendors. Under his leadership, his teams managed more than 180 project go-lives annually. Due to his teams’ efforts, he was awarded CHIME’s Innovator of the Year at two different employers. His organizations were recognized nationally for innovation in information technology for more than 25 years in a row including his time in the federal government. In 2014 the CHIME Board presented him its CIO Legacy Award.
David has served on more than 25 business, government, university, and membership organization advisory councils and boards. He has Fellow and Life status at CHIME where he served on the Board and led Advocacy efforts. He has also been active with HIMSS at all levels and enjoys Fellow status.