Jennifer DeFrancesco DHA, FACHE

Dr. Jennifer DeFrancesco became the Medical Center Director January 14, 2024 after serving in an interim capacity since July 30, 2023. She had been Associate Director since Oct. 2020. She recently served as Acting Medical Center Director of VA Northern Indiana Health Care System from May-September 2022. She also served as Regional Director of Health Technology Services for Crothall Health Care, Technical Advisor for the World Health Organization. She was the Chief Biomedical Engineer for VISN 10 serving Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. Her duties included coordinating biomedical engineering and health care technology management initiatives across the VISN. Her VA career has included assignments as the Chief of Biomedical Engineering at the Indianapolis VAMC, VISN 11 Lead Biomedical Engineer, Chief of Biomedical Engineering at the Richmond VAMC and a prior detail to the Office of Health Care Technology Management (10NA9). In these assignments, she worked to partner with Informatics, OHRM and Contracting to develop streamlined processes to improve field efficiency. She is a Certified Clinical Engineer and Certified Health Care Technology Manager who completed her doctorate in Health Administration in 2016 and has a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering. She is a graduate of the 2015 VHA Health Care Leadership Development Program (HCLDP), a Certified Mentor and served as the United States representative to the 2016-2017 World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization’s Leaders in International Health Program.