Mark Wietecha is among the nation’s best known and most respected advisers to academic medical centers, with a career focus on children’s hospitals.
Mark has significant experience with issues relating to strategy, organization, affiliation, merger, major redevelopment and governance across the clinical, educational, research and community missions. He is nationally known for his expertise with complex, challenging projects, and his client work includes numbers of the most significant case studies of the past 30 years. Beyond the United States, Mark has a career interest in the global development of children’s hospitals from both a policy and delivery systems perspective.
During his 12-year tenure serving as the former and founding President and CEO of the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) of the United States, the organization grew substantially as a change agent in advancing improvements in the funding, quality, safety and delivery of pediatric care. He played a critical role in leading the federal pandemic financial relief of children’s hospitals and related high-Medicaid providers.
Mark is a member and past global Secretary of CHIEF, a forum of the world’s leading children’s hospitals committed to greater collaboration for child health. Prior to joining CHA, Mark served as a senior partner and chairman of the board of a private and subsequently publicly traded global consulting firm, where he founded its academic medical center and children’s hospital consultancy.