Lauren Alexanderson
Deputy Chief Technology Officer - Health Delivery at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolLauren Alexanderson is a Deputy Chief Technology Officer leading the VA’s health delivery portfolio, applying human-centered design and data-driven digital solutions to improve patient and provider experiences across large government systems. With a background spanning UX research, product design, and communications, she has driven major improvements at VA.gov—scaling veteran access to online scheduling fivefold—and led cross-functional teams at the United States Digital Service and John Snow, Inc. A 30+ year pediatric cancer survivor, she brings lived patient perspective to inclusive health technology, ensuring solutions are built with patients and care teams, not for them. Her Johns Hopkins MBA/MA in Health Communication and focused UX training enable her to translate policy and clinical priorities into user-centered digital products that measurably improve outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityB.A. Community Health, B.A. Community Health at Brown UniversityUX Research & Design, UX Research & Design at Springboard
English
Github Skills (2)
frontend9
mobile1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lalexanderson-dsva/hello-world
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
department-of-veterans-affairs/acronyms
Oct 2019 - Jun 2022
A list of VA acronyms
Contributions:5 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 8 months
acronyms
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