Staff directory

Darrell Owens

Performing the Delegable Duties of the Assistant Secretary

Glenn Johnson

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary

Darrell Owens

Deputy Assistant Secretary

Jon Lauder

Senior Advisor

Joel Katz

Senior Advisor

Ashley Davis

Senior Advisor

Shakti Mehrotra

Chief of Staff

Address

  • 810 Vermont Avenue, NW
    Suite 500
    Washington, DC 20420
  • (202) 461-6490 (phone)
  • (202) 273-9988 (fax)

Senior Advisors to the Under Secretaries

Heidi Calderon

  • Senior Advisor for Benefits

Jennifer Nicholson (Janowski)

  • Senior Advisor for Health

Corporate Enterprise Team

oclacorporate@va.gov

Lesia Mandzia

Director, Corporate Team

Darrell Donnelly

  • Congressional Relations Officer
  • Alternate: Larry Hill

  • Office of Information Technology (OIT)
  • Information Technology (IT)
  • Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
  • Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA)
  • Federal Managers Financial Integrity Ac (FMFIA)
  • Cyber and Personal Security
  • Cybersecurity
  • Supply Chain Risk Management
  • Sections 508 and 504 Compliance
  • Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
  • Privacy Act
  • Mail Management
  • Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM)
  • Federal Electronic Record Modernization (FERM) Office
  • Office of Operations, Security and Preparedness, (OSP)
  • Emergency Management
  • VA’s Fourth Mission
  • VA Police

Sean Pleasant

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Lesia Mandzia

  • All U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Activities within the Department

Larry Hill

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: John Glover

  • Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Construction (OALC)
  • Major Construction (not CBOCs or Leases)
  • Acquisition
  • National and Strategic Acquisition Centers (NAC and SAC)
  • Supply Chain Modernization
  • Contracting and Contracting Policy
  • Office of Enterprise Integration (OEI)
  • Department of Defense and VA Collaboration
  • Joint Executive Committee (JEC)
  • Office of Management (OM)
  • Budget
  • Debt Management Center
  • Debt Collection
  • Financial Management Business Transformation (FMBT)
  • Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDUBU)

John Glover

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Darrell Donnelly

  • Human Resources and Administration (HRA)
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Workforce Modernization
  • Labor Relations
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Implementation of Section 5303 of the Deborah Sampson Act
  • Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection (OAWP)
  • Center for Minority Veterans
  • Center for Women Veterans
  • Tribal Government Relations
  • Veterans Experience Office (VEO)
  • Outreach

Jake Meisel

Program Analyst
Alternate: Lesia Mandzia

  • Program and Administrative Support
  • Questions for the Record (QFR)
  • Contract Award Notifications

Benefits Team

oclabenefits@va.gov

Dennis Call

Director, Benefits Team

Taniesha Kelly

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Lawrence Groom

  • National Cemetery Administration policies, programs, and facilities
  • Insurance Service
  • Pension and Fiduciary Service
  • Veterans Benefits Administration Office of Financial Management
  • Loan Guaranty Service
  • Presumption of service connection policies (toxic exposure, BWN, PFAS, Camp Lejeune, burn pits)

Jody Donovan

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Taniesha Kelly

  • Board of Veterans Appeals policies and programs
  • Veterans Benefits Administration Appeals Management Office
  • Compensation Service (including disability compensation claims management)
  • Office of Field Operations

Lawrence Groom

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Jody Donovan

  • Office of Transition and Development (OTED
  • Transition Assistance Program (TAP)
  • Veteran Readiness and Employment Service (VR&E)
  • VetSuccess on Campus (VSOC)
  • Education Service (Forever GI Bill)

Alex Harmon-England

Program Analyst
Alternate: Dennis Call

  • Program and Administrative Support
  • Data Gathering, Analysis, Tracking, and Reporting
  • Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  • Trip Packs
  • Questions for the Record (QFR)
    Transcripts

Health Team

Omar Boulware

Director, Health Team
Alternate: Angell Bolden-Green

Angell Bolden-Green

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Tom Fales

  • Access
  • Community Care
  • Caregivers
  • Capital Assets
  • CBOCs
  • Leasing and Minor Construction
  • Dental
  • Enhanced Use Lease (West LA)
  • AIR Commission and Market Assessments
  • Pharmacy and Pain Management
  • PDMP
  • Population Health
  • Health Equity
  • Women Veterans Health
  • Military Sexual Trauma
  • Veterans Health Administration-Sexual Assault Patient Advocacy
  • VISNs 1, 2, 4, 22

Tom Fales

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Zachary Hearn

  • VHA Pact Act Implementation
  • Academic Affiliations
  • Military Exposures
  • Healthcare Innovation
  • Research and Development (Service Dogs)
  • Rehabilitation and Prosthetics
  • Adaptive Sports
  • Connected Care
  • Rural Health
  • Telehealth
  • Specialty Care Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, and Polytrauma
  • Specialty Care Services
  • Vet Centers
  • VISNs 10, 12, 19

Zachary Hearn

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Bo Prosch

  • Human Capital Management and VHA Workforce
  • Credentialing and Privileging
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Nursing
  • Physician Assistant Services
  • Whole Health and PCCCT
  • Sterile Processing Services
  • Chaplain Services
  • Quality and Patient Safety
  • Geriatrics and Extended Care
  • State Veterans Homes (SVH)
  • SAIL
  • Member Services and HEC
  • Office of the Medical Inspector (OMI)
  • VISNs 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 23

Charles “Bo” Prosch

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Tom Fales

  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • PTSD
  • Suicide Prevention
  • Substance Abuse
  • Homeless Progress
  • VHA Finance
  • Emergency Management
  • Public Health
  • Disability and Medical Assessment
  • Compensation and Pension Exams
  • VISNs 5, 6, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22

Alex Harmon-England

Program Analyst
Alternate: Omar Boulware

  • Program and Administrative Support
  • Data Gathering
  • Analysis
  • Tracking and Reporting
  • Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  • Trip Packs
  • Questions for the Record (QFR)
  • Transcripts

Legislative Team

Demetrius Mack

Director, Legislative Team

Legislative Review Process, Interagency and Budget and Appropriations: Multi-Part Bills (Vets Omnibus, EOY Packages)

Lead: VA Legislative Proposal Program, EOY Packages

Staff Offices:

  • Office of Enterprise Integration (OEI)
  • Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs (OPIA)
  • Office of General Council (OGC)
  • Office of Management (OM)

External Stakeholders: Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Andy Gnau

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Meg Fitzpatrick

National Cemetery Administration (NCA) and Corporate:

  • NCA policies, programs and facilities
  • Electronic Health Record Management (EHRM)
  • Information Technology
  • Acquisition and Logistics
  • Veterans Health Administration Finance
  • Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs), Leasing, Minor Construction
  • Leases

Staff Offices:

  • NCA
  • Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Construction (OALC)
  • Office of Information and Technology (OIT)
  • Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM)
  • Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU)
  • Advisory Committee Management Office (ACMO)

External Stakeholders: Government Accountability Office (GAO) 

Meg Fitzpatrick

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Eric Aumiller

Veterans Health Administration (VHA):

  • Women Veterans Health
  • Military Sexual Trauma
  • Sexual Assault Patient Advocacy
  • Physician Assistant Services
  • Geriatric Care
  • Telehealth
  • Mental Health
  • Suicide Prevention

VA Staff Offices:

  • VHA
  • Center for Women Veterans (CWV)

Demetrius Mack

Acting Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Eric Aumiller and Meg Fitzpatrick

Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Personnel Policy:

  • Community Care Legislation
  • Homelessness
  • Nursing
  • Human Capital Management and VHA Workforce
  • VA Workforce Policy

Staff Offices:

  • Office of Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP)
  • Office of Employment Discrimination Complaint Adjudication (OEDCA)

External Stakeholders: Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Eric Aumiller

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Meg Fitzpatrick

Benefits – Veteran Readiness and Current Operations:

  • Benefits and Compensation
  • Transition and Development (Education, Employment, Readiness)
  • Loan Guaranty
  • Presumption of Service Connection Policies
  • Disability Claims

VA Staff Offices:

  • Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
  • Veterans Experience Office (VEO)
  • Board of Veterans Appeals (BVA)
  • VSO Liaison (VSOL)
  • Office of Employment Discrimination and Complaint Adjudication (OEDCA)
  • Office of Survivors
    Assistance (OSA)

Drew Behling

Program Analyst
Alternate: Demetrius Mack

CMR and Legislative Proposal Tracker:

  • Bill enrollments
  • CBO and CRS requests
  • All Non-Committee Technical Assistance or Views Requests
  • Legislative Services Data Analytics
  • Standard Operating Procedures

Lead: Congressionally Mandated and Tracked Reports (CMR/CTR) Analyst 

VA Staff Offices:

  • Executive Secretariat
  • Office of Resolution Management, Diversity, and Inclusion (ORMDI)
  • Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection (OAWP)

External Stakeholders: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Congressional Outreach Team

Annmarie Amaral

Director, Congressional Outreach Team

Calito Keith

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Annmarie Amaral

  • Connecticut
  • Maine
  • Massachusetts
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • Pennsylvania
  • Rhode Island
  • Vermont

Nikki Barnes

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Annmarie Amaral

  • Delaware
  • Indiana
  • Maryland
  • Michigan
  • North Carolina
  • Ohio
  • Virginia
  • Washington, DC
  • West Virginia

Amanda Neumann

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Tyler Healey

  • Arkansas
  • Colorado
  • Louisiana
  • Mississippi
  • Montana
  • Oklahoma
  • Texas
  • Utah
  • Wyoming

Chris McNair

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Tom Garloch

  • Alaska
  • American Samoa
  • Arizona
  • California
  • Guam
  • Hawaii
  • Idaho
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • Northern Marianas
  • Oregon
  • Washington

Tyler Healey

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Amanda Neumann

  • Alabama
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Kentucky
  • Puerto Rico
  • South Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Virgin Islands

Tom Garloch

Congressional Relations Officer
Alternate: Chris McNair

  • Illinois
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Minnesota
  • Missouri
  • Nebraska
  • North Dakota
  • South Dakota
  • Wisconsin

Congressional Liaison Service Team

vacocls@va.gov

Annmarie Amaral

Director
Congressional Liaison Services Team

Carina Buchen

Deputy Director
Congressional Liaison Services Team

Christie Smith

Congressional Liaison Representative

Alma Bourne

Congressional Liaison Representative

Michael Boudreau

Congressional Liaison Representative

Operations Team

Shakti Mehrotra

Chief of Staff

Byron Austin

Administrative Officer

Joy Muhammad

Staff Assistant

Clara Martin

Correspondence Analyst

Keisha Howard

Program Support Assistant