Ian Komorowski

Ian directs strategic operations for a VA Complexity Level 3 Facility that includes the Bath and Canandaigua Medical Centers, as well as Community-Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) across New York and Pennsylvania. In his most recent role, Ian was the Executive Director of the VHA Office of Strategic Investment Management (SIM). While there, he facilitated sound decision making by VHA for the acquisition, and maintenance of health IT investments, based on a comprehensive understanding of needed VHA business capabilities.

Ian also brings experience leading government programs through successful growth using project and change management best practices & interdepartmental experience in leading multi-agency government projects. From 2023 to 2024 he served as the Acting Chief Consultant to the Deputy Under Secretary for Health (DUSH) as the co-lead for VHA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) Reset efforts. From 2018 through 2021, Ian served as Deputy Director, Office of Healthcare Transformation (OHT) where he provided executive leadership on project management, strategic implementation, and health systems engineering. He was also the executive sponsor for the VHA Change Management (CM) effort, establishing a CM training program and expanding CM Practices across VHA. He previously served as Branch Chief, Architecture & Cloud Strategies for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), leading the effort to include Enterprise Architecture as a core part of business, IT, and acquisition practices in the SEC and increasing visibility of information across the enterprise. 

Earlier in his career, he was Director of Architecture & Interoperability for a mid-size consulting company, and VP of Training at a small business. Ian enjoys teaching and mentoring across many disciplines, from having been a full-time kayak instructor, to a developer and instructor of formal enterprise architecture courses. He has also guest lectured on health IT and enterprise architecture topics at undergraduate and graduate levels at schools such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgetown University.

CAREER CHRONOLOGY:

2026 – Present              Acting Medical Center Director, VA Finger Lakes Healthcare System

2021 – Present              Executive Director, Strategic Investment Management (SIM), VHA, Washington DC

2023 – 2024                  Acting Chief Consultant, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary for Health, VHA, Wash. DC

2018 – 2021                  Deputy Director, Office of Healthcare Transformation (OHT), VHA, Washington DC

2017 – 2018                  Portfolio Manager, OHT, VHA, Washington DC

2015 – 2017                  Branch Chief, Architecture & Cloud Strategies, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Washington DC

2011 – 2015                  Deputy Director, Business Architecture, VHA, Washington DC

EDUCATION:

2019     Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Managers (FAC-P/PM) Senior, VAAA (training)

2014     Interagency Institute for Federal Healthcare Executives

2012     Certified Enterprise Architect (CEA), Federal Enterprise Architecture Certification (FEAC) Institute

2000     Bachelor of Science Degree, Biology, State University of New York, Brockport

1993     Associate of Science Degree, Biology, Rochester Institute of Technology