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Les Stoltenberg

Chief Cyber Security Officer

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, TX

Mr. Stoltenberg is chief cyber security officer at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he drives efforts to fortify institutional resilience, ensuring the continuity of life-saving clinical care and the advancement of breakthrough research. Mr. Stoltenberg leads a team of security professionals focused on institutionwide efforts to heighten cyber-readiness awareness and implement best practices across an increasingly interconnected healthcare landscape. He and his team establish governance, risk management and compliance for all of MD Anderson’s technologies and devices, working closely with the facilities and business continuity teams on the institution’s disaster recovery planning. Applying high reliability organizational principles, Mr. Stoltenberg partnered with MD Anderson’s quality and patient safety teams to implement institutionwide preparedness efforts, elevating targeted cyber-readiness metrics by 50%. He and his team were awarded a grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to strengthen the institution’s medical technology innovation program, collaborating with institutions including The University of Texas at San Antonio, The University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Illinois. Mr. Stoltenberg also launched MD Anderson’s institutional medical device committee, which convenes stakeholders across clinical engineering, radiation oncology and diagnostic imaging to identify risks and coordinate best practices. He previously spent 17 years with PwC’s advisory practice, focused on information security, IT audit and compliance.

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