Robert Monte, RPh, MBA is a Supervisory Program Specialist in the Office of Healthcare Transformation (OHT) in Veterans Affairs Central Office. He was previously Director of the Veterans Engineering Resource Center (VERC) at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System and the Acting National VERC Director. He developed the grant that supported the Pittsburgh VERC and was one of four centers selected in a competitive review process among applications from 23 VA Medical Centers across the country.

He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Pharmacy and the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business in 1992 with a Master of Business Administration (MBA). His pharmacy career includes staff, supervisory, and clinical pharmacist positions over the past 43 years in professional clinical settings including inpatient and outpatient hospital pharmacy, retail, and specialty mail order pharmacy.

Mr. Monte developed the Pharmacology Curriculum for Chatham University Physician Assistant and Doctor of Physical Therapy programs and taught there for 17 years as an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology. He is also Program Director for the University of Pittsburgh Health School of Engineering Systems Engineering Course and guest lecturer in the School of Pharmacy Healthcare Innovations Course.

His 38-year VA career includes work as a Supervisory Pharmacist, Manager Medical Specialty Service Line, Advanced Clinical Access and Systems Redesign Coordinator, Network Telemedicine Coordinator, and his current position. Mr. Monte has lead Systems Redesign teams, presented, and served as faculty at the local, Network and National level in the Veterans Healthcare System. He has worked part time as a specialty pharmacist at CVS Specialty for 25 years.

His current interest is in improving healthcare processes using simulation, technology, project management, data analytics and Lean. He has developed game-based learning programs to teach a wide variety of content across VHA. He led the VERC effort in developing a lung nodule tracking tool for the VHA National Lung Cancer Screening trial and Prostate Cancer Tracking Tool. He led the VERC effort in the VHA National My VA Access Program from Fiscal Year 2015-17 and is currently working to implement the PACT Act in VHA as a Senior FAC-PPM Project Manager.