With 13 years of experience as the President/CEO of CommHIT, a 501(c)(6) organization housed at the Kennedy Space Center, Kendra Siler, PhD is a nationally-recognized leader in technologies and workforce development to support rural and underserved communities’ needs, digital security, and information sharing. She founded CommHIT in 2008 to focus on the discovery and efficiency of processes and technologies dealing with the remote care of people, especially those in rural, underserved, and other remote areas. Dr. Siler has a PhD in Immunology and Biochemistry from the University of Florida, where she also did post-doctoral research at the McKnight Brain Institute on the best ways to protect the privacy and security of centralized health data. She also led the development of the nation’s first rural-based Health Information Exchange (HIE), which enabled veteran-initiated electronic sharing of their health records with civilian providers. She currently leads Wave 1 of the HHS 405(d) Task Group, a federal award-winning public-private partnership that helps health organizations of all sizes improve their digital security practices. She is the chair of the UF Health Cancer Center’s Community Outreach and Engagement Advisory Council.