Ryan Howells is a Principal at Leavitt Partners based out of the Washington, D.C. office. Ryan works with the White House, Congress, HHS, and VHA on health care policy and interoperability issues. He currently helps lead the CARIN Alliance, a multi-sector, public-private alliance focused on giving consumers digital access to their health information. He is also helping to lead the Helios Public Health FHIR accelerator working in conjunction with ONC, CDC, and multiple public health authorities. Ryan is a member of the CMS Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) governance board, Carequality steering committee, ONC’s FAST identity tiger team, and the VCI.org SMART Health Cards steering committee. He also serves as on the board of multiple health care companies. Ryan has a master of health administration from the University of Southern California, where he was a dean’s merit scholar. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Brigham Young University and is a Project Management Professional (PMP). He and his wife Alison live with their five children in Atlanta, GA.