Dr. Taha Kass-Hout is Chief Technology Officer of GE HealthCare. Taha was Vice President/Distinguished Technologist-Health AI, and Chief Medical Officer, at Amazon Web Services (2017-2023), where he led Health AI strategy and efforts, including Amazon HealthLake, Amazon Comprehend Medical, and Amazon Omics. Taha worked with teams at Amazon responsible for developing the science, technology, and scale for COVID-19 lab testing. A physician executive and bio-statistician, Taha served two terms under President Obama, including the first Chief Health Informatics officer at the FDA. During this time as a public servant, he pioneered the use of emerging technologies and cloud (CDC’s electronic disease surveillance), and established widely accessible global data sharing platforms, the openFDA, that enabled researchers and the public to search and analyze adverse event data, and precisionFDA (part of the Presidential Precision Medicine initiative). During the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009-2010, Taha led CDC’s quick scale-up of monitoring hospital emergency department visits in coordination with state and local public health agencies. He holds a Doctor of Medicine and a Master of Science in Biostatistics from the University of Texas, and had his clinical training at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.