Summerpal Kahlon

Summerpal Kahlon
Trustee 

Dr. Kahlon currently serves as Chief Medical Officer at Edifecs. He was previously the Value-Based Payments Evangelist at Change Healthcare and held multiple roles at Steward Health Care Network, including Chief Information Officer nationally Region VP, Florida for the local ACO and clinically integrated network.

Prior to that, Dr. Kahlon served in various roles at Oracle and McKesson, with a focus on delivering technological innovation to support individualized care at the intersection of population health and precision medicine. His primary career interest is in applying modern information and communication technologies to transform the delivery of healthcare.

Dr. Kahlon has a background in health information systems, electronic health records (EHR), health data exchange, mHealth and telemedicine.

In addition, Dr. Kahlon has spent time in community practice as an adult infectious diseases specialist in Florida. Dr. Kahlon is currently on staff at the Orlando VA Medical Center and is affiliated with the University of Central Florida College of Medicine as Assistant Professor of Medicine, an appointment he has held since 2010.

His MD is from the University of Alabama School of Medicine (UAB) and he also received a MS in Healthcare Informatics from the University of Central Florida.

Among other professional affiliations, Dr. Kahlon presently serves on the Board of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Central & North Florida Chapter.