Raymond Francis R. Sarmiento, MD

Subcommittee on Other Health Technologies

Dr. Raymond Francis R. Sarmiento is a physician-scientist and currently the Director of the National Telehealth Center, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila. He currently serves as the Chair of the Health Informatics for Development Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association, also as President of HL7 Philippines, and is the immediate past President of the Philippine Medical Informatics Society. He is the Philippines’ representative to the WHO Working Group on Regulatory considerations on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare.

Dr. Sarmiento graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine in 2008 and finished his Public Health Informatics Fellowship from 2014 to 2016 in the Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prior to joining the U.S. CDC, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in medical informatics from 2012-2014 at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2016, he returned to the Philippines as a Balik Scientist (biomedical and health informatics) of the Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Council for Health Research and Development.

In 2019, Dr. Sarmiento was awarded by the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) – Philippines as its Outstanding Young Scientist in the field of Public Health Informatics, and was selected as one of the global fellows to the prestigious Young Physician Leaders program of the InterAcademy Partnership or IAP (the association of National Academies of Science and Technology in the world). In 2020, he was recognized by the JCI Philippines, TOYM Foundation, and Gerry Roxas Foundation as one of The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) as its Honoree for Medicine.