Rachel B. Ramoni, DMD, ScD, is the Chief Research and Development Officer (CRADO) for VA. Previously, she was on the faculty at New York University College of Dentistry in the Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, and at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. While at Harvard, Dr. Ramoni founded and led the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) Coordinating Center. The UDN, funded by the National Institutes of Health, brings together clinical and research experts from across the U.S. to solve challenging medical mysteries using advanced technologies. The Boston Globe called the network a "powerful new way to diagnose mystery illnesses." Among Dr. Ramoni's research interests are informatics, genomics, and precision medicine. Prior to the UDN, she was executive director of the Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies project, or SMART. As CRADO, Dr. Ramoni oversees VA's nationwide research enterprise, encompassing some 2,000 active projects at more than 100 sites. The program's total budget in FY2016 was $1.8 billion.