Dr. Raymond Francis R. Sarmiento is a physician-scientist and is the current president of HL7 Philippines (2022-present) as well as chair of the Health Informatics for Development Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association (2017-present). He is the Philippines’ representative to the WHO Working Group on Regulatory Considerations on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare and is a member of the Philippines’ Health Technology Assessment Council.

He is the immediate past Director of the National Telehealth Center, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila (2017-2024) and immediate past president of the Philippine Medical Informatics Society (2017-2021). He also served as Clinical Assistant Professor of the Medical Informatics Unit, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila.

Dr. Sarmiento graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine in 2008 and completed his 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 (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. He 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 (CDC).

In 2019, he 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 (IAP). In 2020, he was honored by the JCI Philippines, TOYM Foundation, and Gerry Roxas Foundation as one of The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) as its Honoree for Medicine. In 2022, he was a key member of the IAP Expert Working group who published the Call for a Global Health Data Sharing Framework for Global Health Emergencies communiqué, which has been used as a reference by many countries around the world.