P. Jon White, MD

Associate Chief of Staff (ACOS), Research

P. Jon White MD is the Chief of Research and Development at the Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System. He directs projects in informatics and causal inference and co-leads an Evidence Based Policy Center. Dr. White is also a Senior Advisor for Artificial Intelligence to the VA's Office of Research and Development and Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah conducting translational research funded by NIH, FDA, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is also a board member of the Western Institute for Veteran's Research. Dr. White has an active clinical practice providing primary care to Veterans.

Previously Dr. White was the Acting Deputy Chief Research and Development Officer for Enterprise Protections, Regulatory, Outreach, and Systems for the Veterans Health Administration. He was also the Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the US Department of Health and Human Services where he led national health technology programs and policies. He executed mission-critical activities including publication of federal regulations, congressional reports, and strategic priorities. Dr. White was also Director of the Division of Health IT at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). There he funded hundreds of projects in 48 states on a variety of health technology applications and issues. Dr. White worked with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and key external stakeholders to implement health care initiatives.

Dr. White trained in family medicine at the University of Virginia and Lancaster General Hospital in Pennsylvania. He is a recipient of the national American Academy of Family Physicians Award for Excellence in Graduate Education.