Chief Clinical AI Officer

Overview

GovCIO is seeking a physician executive to lead clinical and artificial intelligence solutions that improve care, reduce administrative burden, and help healthcare organizations solve their most consequential operational problems. The Chief Clinical AI Officer will connect frontline clinical needs with technology strategy, product development, and delivery, with an initial emphasis on the Department of Veterans Affairs and the ability to extend successful approaches to other healthcare markets.

Reporting directly to Chief Strategy and Solutions Officer, this executive will work closely with the Chief Strategy and Solutions Office, business leaders, and delivery teams to define where clinical AI can create value and what evidence is needed to use it responsibly. The role provides clinical leadership across solution development, partner evaluation, customer engagement, and implementation, with accountability for clinical quality and measurable value throughout the solution lifecycle.

This position is a fully remote position.

Responsibilities

Executive Responsibilities

• Define and lead the clinical AI strategy and investment roadmap. Prioritize problems by patient and clinician benefit, implementation feasibility, risk, and business value, and align recommended investments with GovCIO strategy and customer priorities.
• Lead clinical solution design from discovery through evaluation and adoption. Translate care delivery problems into workflows, product requirements, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans that engineering and delivery teams can execute.
• Provide clinical leadership across VA programs and task orders. Work with program managers to align clinical priorities, staffing, and evaluation activities with authorized scope, available resources, and customer decisions.
• Advance growth through credible clinical differentiation. Shape opportunities, contribute to capture and proposal strategy, evaluate partners, and develop evidence-based business cases with the Chief Strategy and Solutions Office and account leaders.
• Represent GovCIO as a senior clinical voice with customers and partners. Build a network of physician, nursing, informatics, and specialty experts; mentor teams; and communicate clinical value and implementation tradeoffs clearly to executive audiences.

Clinical AI portfolio

• Lead a portfolio of clinical and operational use cases across existing programs and emerging opportunities. Apply the same clinical discipline to partner products, custom solutions, and reusable capabilities developed for other markets.
• Community care and utilization management. Improve referral, authorization, and care-coordination workflows, including clinical document intake, consult closure, and the delivery of useful summaries and follow-up tasks to care teams.
• Dental AI and partner integration. Guide clinical evaluation of dental AI solutions, including dental imaging, ambient documentation, and AI-assisted authorization review. Engage qualified dental specialists to validate specialty-specific use cases and workflow requirements.
• Clinician productivity and AI assistance. Shape ambient documentation, clinical copilots, generative and agentic AI workflows, and knowledge tools that reduce effort while preserving clinician review, reliable information, and clear accountability.
• Connected care and clinical data. Connect clinical needs to application and architecture development, electronic health record workflows, interoperability, patient-generated health data, and analytics so that information is usable at the point of care.
• Immersive and emerging care models. Guide clinical use cases, implementation approaches, and evaluation for AI-enabled immersive technologies supporting mental health, pain management, and rehabilitation, in collaboration with specialty and program leaders.

Clinical governance and adoption

• Establish clinical evaluation standards for intended use, data quality, usability, and performance. Define representative test cases, clinically meaningful acceptance criteria, human review and escalation pathways, and monitoring for errors, bias, and changing model behavior.
• Provide documented clinical readiness recommendations and escalate unresolved safety concerns. Partner with engineering, security, privacy, legal, and customer authorities on technical, regulatory, and authorization requirements; preserve the decisions reserved to accountable clinicians and government officials.
• Lead clinician engagement, education, and change management. Build practical training, clinical champion networks, and feedback mechanisms that help teams adopt appropriate AI capabilities and improve them through real-world use.
• Establish baselines and evaluate results across patient safety, access, clinical quality, clinician workload, user experience, and cost. Use findings to recommend expansion, modification, or discontinuation and distinguish demonstrated outcomes from projected benefits.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Medical degree from an accredited medical school, completion of an accredited residency, and a current, active, unrestricted physician license in at least one U.S. state, territory, or the District of Columbia.
• Progressive physician leadership experience combining direct patient care with responsibility for health informatics, clinical operations, digital health, or healthcare transformation in a complex healthcare organization.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating or implementing AI-enabled clinical tools, including defining use cases, assessing clinical and workflow risks, engaging end users, and measuring implementation results.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary initiatives across clinicians, informaticists, product teams, engineers, data scientists, and operational leaders, including translating clinical requirements into actionable delivery priorities.
• Strong working knowledge of electronic health records, clinical data and analytics, interoperability, clinical decision support, and the opportunities and limitations of generative and agentic AI in healthcare.
• Executive communication, teaching, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to explain complex clinical and technical issues, build clinician trust, and connect solution choices to customer needs and business priorities.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• An additional graduate degree in healthcare delivery leadership, health informatics, health administration, public health, medical science, or a related discipline.
• Clinical Informatics board certification, eligibility, or active progression toward certification; clinical specialty board certification is also valued.
• VA or other federal healthcare experience, particularly national or regional AI initiatives, connected care, community care, multi-site implementation, or clinician education at scale.
• Experience with platforms such as Palantir Foundry or AIP, ambient AI, clinical agents, workflow automation, low-code platforms, or healthcare technology advisory work; familiarity with federal capture and proposal development.

Clearance Required: Ability to obtain and maintain s Suitability/Public Trust clearance.

Posted Salary Range

USD $275,000.00 - USD $350,000.00 /Yr.