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10 ARPA-H program managers
These ten current and former ARPA-H program managers have worked at ARPA-H. A reader can learn how program managers at ARPA-H approach their work from people who have held these roles.
Professionals to explore
01—10Calvin W. Roberts
LinkedInExperience: Program Manager · Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Program Manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) since 2023, based in New York. Calvin W. Roberts was also CEO of Lighthouse Guild (2020–2025), was earlier Chief Medical Officer at Bausch + Lomb (2011–2020), and has been a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College since 1982.
Haider J Warriach
LinkedInExperience: Program Manager (General Partner) · Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Program Manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) since 2024, based in Boston. Haider J Warriach was earlier Senior Clinical Advisor for Chronic Disease to the FDA Commissioner (2023–2024) and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School (2021–2024), and is a Heart Failure Cardiologist at Boston Medical Center.
Ileana Hancu
LinkedInExperience: Program Manager (General Partner) · Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Program Manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) since 2023; the profile describes Ileana Hancu as one of the first program managers at the agency. Earlier roles were Program Director at the National Cancer Institute (2022–2023), Scientific Review Officer at the NIH Center for Scientific Review (2018–2021) and Principal Scientist at GE Research (2016–2018).
James Coburn
LinkedInExperience: CAPT USPHS, Program Manager, Building advanced research programs · Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Program Manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) since 2025 as a Captain in the U.S. Public Health Service, with a title that describes building advanced research programs. James Coburn also holds a Senior Advisor for Emerging Technologies role at the FDA and was Medical Manufacturing Innovation Lead at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (2023).
Jean Hebert
LinkedInExperience: Program Manager · Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Program Manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) since 2024; the profile says Jean Hebert is at ARPA-H to accelerate functional brain tissue replacement. Earlier roles were Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2003–2024) and Founder, CSO of BE Therapeutics (2023–2024).
John E. Schiel
LinkedInExperience: Program Manager · Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Program Manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) since 2024, based in Rockville, Maryland; the headline describes John E. Schiel as a biomanufacturing innovator. The listing also shows Research Chemist (2009–2025) and NIIMBL Federal Technical Program Manager (2021–2025) roles at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Michael Patterson, PhD MPH
LinkedInExperience: Program Manager · Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Program Manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) since 2026; the profile describes running the CATALYST Program within the Health Science Futures Office. Michael Patterson has also been a Program Manager at IARPA since 2021, with an Acting Director, Office of Analysis role there (2024–2025), and was a CNAS Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellow (2021–2022).
Scott Gorman
LinkedInExperience: Program Manager, Proactive Health Office · Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Program Manager in the Proactive Health Office at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) since 2024, after serving at the agency as a Presidential Innovation Fellow (2022–2024). Scott Gorman was Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Caria (2019–2024) and is an Innovation Officer with the 75th U.S. Army Reserve Innovation Command.
Shannon E. Greene
LinkedInExperience: Program Manager · Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Program Manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) since 2025, based in Arlington, Virginia. Shannon E. Greene was earlier a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (2023–2025) and, before that, provided SETA support to DARPA at MANTECH (2015–2023).
Tyler K. Best
LinkedInExperience: Deputy Director Health Science Futures Office · Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Deputy Director of the Health Science Futures Office at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) since 2023, after serving as Senior Advisor at the agency (2022–2023). The profile says Tyler K. Best manages and mentors more than 10 program manager teams. The listing also shows Program Officer in the NIH Office of the Director (2019–2023) and Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton (2013–2019).
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Match the person's office and field to your question, since program managers in different offices and specialties, and an office deputy director who oversees several program teams, see different parts of the work. Check when the person joined and whether they came from medicine, academia, industry or another federal agency.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does an ARPA-H program manager take a program from an initial idea to launch?
- 02How do program managers and office leadership work together across a portfolio of programs?
- 03What changes for a clinician, professor or federal scientist moving into a program manager role?
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