Alfred A. Montoya Jr., FACHE, is deputy COO, Veterans Health Administration/Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C. Board certified in healthcare management as an ACHE Fellow. Mr. Montoya served as the ACHE Regent for Veterans Affairs from 2022 to 2024 and on various ACHE committees.

Mr. Montoya was appointed to his current role in February 2023. Prior to that, he served as senior advisor to the U.S. deputy under secretary for health, Department of Veterans Affairs, from 2022 to 2023. He served as medical center director, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, from 2019 to 2022, medical center director, Manchester VA Medical Center, from 2018 to 2019, medical center director, White River Junction VA Medical Center, from 2016 to 2018, and assistant director, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, from 2012 to 2016. He previously served in the U.S. Air Force for over 10 years.

Mr. Montoya served as a mentor in the 2023 mentor program for the National Association of Hispanic Federal Executives.

In 2018, Mr. Montoya received the James A. Hamilton Founders Award from the New Hampshire Hospital Association, and he received the VA Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Nursing and Advancement of Nursing Programs in 2019. He also received the Early Careerist Healthcare Executive Regent Award in 2018 from ACHE.

Mr. Montoya earned his Master of Science degree in healthcare administration from Walden University, Minneapolis, in 2011, and his bachelor's degree in occupational education from Wayland Baptist University, Plainview, Texas, in 2003.