David J. Shulkin

Noted by Modern Healthcare as one of the “Hundred Most Influential People in American Healthcare,” the Honorable Dr. David J. Shulkin is an entrepreneur and board certified internist who served as the ninth Secretary of the US Department of Veterans Affairs and the VA’s Under Secretary of Health. Secretary Shulkin is the only member of the Cabinet to have served both President Trump and President Obama, and was confirmed by the US Senate by a vote of 100-0.

While chief executive of leading hospitals and health systems in the U.S., he also has held numerous physician leadership roles, and academic positions including chairman of medicine and vice dean at Drexel University School of Medicine.