Georgia’s healthcare sector spans major pediatric systems, urgent care platforms, oncology-focused technology providers, and regional health networks, all operating in an environment where cybersecurity is inseparable from patient trust, clinical continuity, and regulatory discipline. The leaders in this group are helping secure healthcare organizations with very different scales and operating models, but all face the same core challenge: protecting sensitive systems and data while enabling care delivery, growth, and modernization.
Diab Hitti — VP of IT Enterprise and CISO, GoHealth Urgent Care
Diab Hitti brings broad enterprise security experience shaped across healthcare, consulting, and large corporate environments including HP, Georgia-Pacific, Koch, Equifax, MED-ALLY, and EY. At GoHealth Urgent Care, he leads with a mix of security strategy, governance, operations, privacy, compliance, and third-party risk expertise, reflecting the kind of cross-functional leadership modern healthcare organizations need. His background in secure software development, cloud, identity, security operations, and business-aligned program design makes him a strong fit for a fast-moving care environment where resilience and agility both matter.
Antonio Davis — CISO, Northeast Georgia Health System
Antonio Davis leads information security and IT physical security at Northeast Georgia Health System, where he reports to the CTO and oversees enterprise efforts to protect patient and organizational data. His remit includes strategic security implementation, protocol enhancement, budget leadership, and risk reduction across a major healthcare organization. What stands out is his combination of executive communication, governance, and operational leadership, helping strengthen security maturity while supporting compliant, resilient, and patient-focused operations.
Robert Maddrey — VP of Enterprise IT & Information Security (CISO), OncoHealth
Robert Maddrey leads enterprise IT and information security at OncoHealth, where his role spans infrastructure, service delivery, GRC, network operations, incident response, and regulatory alignment in a remote-first healthcare environment. He has helped drive HITRUST readiness, SOC 2 and NIST alignment, identity automation, Zero Trust modernization, and the secure rollout of generative AI tools including Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot Enterprise. That blend of healthcare compliance, operational discipline, and practical AI governance makes him especially notable in a sector where innovation has to move carefully and securely.
Stoddard Manikin — CISO, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Stoddard Manikin has spent more than a decade leading information security at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, where he oversees security strategy, project execution, and operations across a large pediatric care network. His scope includes the broader information security program as well as Epic security and foundational controls supporting thousands of users, multiple hospitals, neighborhood locations, specialty centers, and physician practices. His long tenure and focus on regulatory compliance, enterprise risk integration, and identity and access management reflect the steady leadership needed in complex pediatric healthcare settings.
Richard Thomas — CIO/CISO, Crisp Regional Health Services
Richard Thomas represents a more infrastructure-grounded path into security leadership, rising through systems administration, programming, analytics, and IT leadership roles before becoming CIO/CISO at Crisp Regional Healthcare. His experience across clinical and non-clinical systems, reporting infrastructure, virtualization, EHR platforms, integration engines, and healthcare IT operations gives him a practical understanding of the environments security programs are meant to protect. That hands-on background is especially valuable in regional healthcare, where technical breadth and operational reliability often matter as much as formal security structure.
Georgia’s Healthcare Security Bench Runs Deep
What ties these leaders together is not just their titles, but the range of healthcare environments they secure, from pediatric hospitals and urgent care networks to oncology platforms and regional care systems. Together, they reflect how cybersecurity in healthcare has become a core operational function, one that touches patient safety, compliance, clinical systems, digital transformation, and long-term institutional trust.
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