KPMG hires ex-HHS official for advisory practice

KPMG LLP has named John Teeter managing director in the firm’s advisory practice, where he will assist clients with government health care IT matters, as well as serve in the company’s health and human services practice.

KPMG’s health care IT matters factor into the company’s Global Center of Excellence for Health, the company said.

Teeter comes to the company having served as associate deputy assistant secretary for IT and deputy chief information officer of the Health and Human Services Department.

At the department, Teeter was responsible for information resources management, which includes strategic planning, enterprise architecture and IT capital planning, KPMG said in a release.

Before the Health and Human Services Department, Teeter was associate director for IT architecture at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Va.