Medical Director, Infectious Diseases TeleHealth Service
Intermountain Healthcare
Dr. Vento is the Medical Director of TeleHealth Infectious Diseases (ID) and Intermountain Connect (Specialty Care) at Intermountain Healthcare. He oversees the delivery of ID Telehealth services for over 30 healthcare facilities and supports tele-specialty care program delivery across 10 states in the Intermountain West region. He has extensive experience in clinical, operational, and academic medicine, serving in leadership roles from Clinic Chief to Hospital Chief of the Medical Staff.
Dr. Vento received his MD from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) and MPH in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. He completed Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine (PM)/Public Health residencies and an Infectious Diseases fellowship. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and Infectious Diseases Society of America and holds International Society of Travel Medicine Certification. He is the Vice Chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Mentorship Committee and a member of IDSA’s Telehealth and Emerging Technologies Committee.
Dr. Vento has published on a variety of public health, telehealth, and infectious diseases topics, and holds academic appointments at USUHS, the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, and University of Utah School of Medicine (SOM), where he also co-directs the Global Medicine course. He has been an invited lecturer at many national and international conferences and served as an ID, PM, and International Health expert consultant for state and national media outlets, to include MSNBC, ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, among others.
Dr. Vento is also a 26-year Army Medical Corps veteran with extensive international health and epidemic response experience, having served as an advisor to US and foreign military operations and humanitarian programs on 5 continents, including positions as the Department of Defense’s infectious diseases advisor during the ebola response in Liberia, SARS and Avian/Pandemic influenza preparedness officer for several military installations, and ID/PM Advisor to the Afghan National Army.