Ignacio Herman Valdes

Dr. Ignacio Herman Valdes is a board-certified Psychiatrist who has been practicing since 2002. Dr. Valdes worked for such companies as IBM both as a NASA contractor and private commercial contracting, Compaq, and other startup Health IT companies. He is an accomplished Bachelor of science in computer science from Texas A&M, Master of Science in computer science from the University of Houston. He programs in the most popular computer languages. He has extensive scientific training and practice as a Brain Imaging Fellow and healthcare informatics. He feels privileged to have served Veterans at the Michael E Debakey Veterans Affairs hospital in Houston, Texas using the VistA EHR. He has had many notable software firsts such as the Astronaut VistA Installer Suite, VistA technical standards, the first VistA EHR deployment in the cloud, as well as numerous innovations to the software. He successfully headed 14 VA federal government software development projects achieving them all on time and on budget with 97 percent customer satisfaction. He remains committed to serving patients effectively, efficiently, and safely. He founded Astronaut, LLC in 2009. He is an Attending Physician, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), and Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) for multiple practice locations such as Blue Bonnet Clinic, Daystars Partial Hospitalization Program, and more. He drives, refurbishes, maintains, and builds antique cars. He is an Assistant Scout Master at his local Scouts BSA troop.