Mr. Sheahan is senior vice president and chief innovation officer at MedStar Health and executive director of the MedStar Institute for Innovation, leading a more than 200-member team driving systemwide transformation. He oversees enterprise innovation for a $8.3 billion, nonprofit system with more than 300 care locations, including 10 hospitals, with priorities spanning the future of acute care and the future of work through AI and automation. In fiscal year 2025, his teams supported 1.4 million online learning completions across 53,500 unique learners and delivered 30,000 associate support touchpoints through the MedStar Health Center for Wellbeing. Mr. Sheahan expanded automation and AI capabilities, building and maintaining 34 automations that saved nearly 80,000 hours and scaling a voice AI initiative to 2,000 providers across 50 specialties supporting 350,000 ambulatory visits. He also advanced virtual care models, including more than 500,000 remote visual monitoring hours for roughly 6,000 patients across all 10 hospitals and virtual nursing programs. This initiative is estimated to return 12,000 hours to bedside nurses. Under his leadership, MedStar supported 520,000 telehealth encounters in fiscal year 2025, up 14% year over year, surpassed 1,000 eConsults across more than 20 specialties, and continued to expand strategic partnerships, ventures and commercialization activity.
