Danne Elbers, PhD

Health Informatics | Data and AI Strategy @ Accenture Federal Services

United States

About

Health Informaticist skilled in applying Data Science & AI to real-world problems in the federal, private and non-profit space. 10+ years of experience building healthcare applications and platforms that optimize clinicians’ workload and standardize data infrastructure. Comfortable with large health record data. Track record of growing energetic and dependable teams.

Experience

  • Data and AI Strategy, Senior Manager at Accenture Federal Services
    Apr 2026 - Present · 4 mos

  • Director of Operations & Data Science at Open Commons Consortium
    Mar 2025 - Apr 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Director of Data Science at BLOODPAC
    Mar 2025 - Apr 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University
    Nov 2023 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (10 yrs 8 mos)
    • Associate Director Health Informatics
      Mar 2022 - Feb 2025 · 3 yrs

    • Informatics Core Director for Data Management and Bioinformatics
      Mar 2020 - Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    • Bioinformatics Data Architect
      Sep 2015 - Mar 2020 · 4 yrs 7 mos

      Bioinformatics Data Architect (Research) Precision Oncology Program and Precision Oncology Data Repository This project aims to sequence tumors of veterans diagnosed with cancer in order to improve standard of care and enhance trial enrollment. The research arm of this project is working towards publicly sharing of de-identified sequencing, clinical and imaging data with researchers.   - Responsible for high level technical design - Guide the database and development team to implement requirements - Define product requirements in collaboration with the stakeholders - Create, plan and maintain an active schedule of all on-going activities - Present project progress to higher management Lead VA Data Task Force in support of the APOLLO project Data Working Group This group aims to provide informatics expertise to support data elements identification and standardization, lead data integration and analysis, and safeguard data transfer to standard data repositories, to ensure the success of the APOLLO project. Technical Lead Software and Data Engineering - Guide our team through the implementation of RTC in order to support a more efficient systems  development life cycle. - Responsible for the design and technical implementation of the Diuretic Comparison Project, a research study aiming to enroll 30.000 veterans.   - Participate in the definition of the Informatics common workflow engine design to aid study projects in need of informatics support. - Plan integration testing. - Manage the development of modular web services that interact with the workflow engine to facilitate an efficient data flow.