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George T. “Buddy” Hickman

Chief Digital and Information Officer

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Buffalo, NY

Mr. Hickman leads the planning, development and implementation of technology policy and activation across Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, founded in 1898 as the first facility of its kind. Since Mr. Hickman joined Roswell Park in early 2024, his team has delivered advances translating to benefits for patients, clinicians, researchers and workforce members. His work has helped stand up a framework for shared leadership and governance of progressive digital health and IT, organizationwide AI policy and governance, AI integration, data and development efforts with clinical, translational and scientific research colleagues, and an IT improvement plan based on internally led assessments and surveys. His team has also developed patient and workforce applications, improved infrastructure resiliency and raised the customer experience. Mr. Hickman has served the health industry as a CIO for more than two decades, touching every facet of the clinical and business continuum while supporting academic and research missions. An industry speaker, author and mentor in digital health leadership, he is a past board chair for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, actively serves on industry and vendor advisory boards, and is past recipient of the John E. Gall Jr. “CIO of the Year Award.”

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