Mark Wesson MPH FACHE HealthTech Venture Builder and Startup Advisor

Mark Wesson is a career health care professional focused on advancing informed, timely, participatory, evidence-based patient care for all patients. Mr. Wesson worked as a certified home health care aide at 17 in high school and received his B.A. in Psychology from Hendrix College. Mr. Wesson began a 12-year research career that gave him experience in health care process and outcomes assessment validation, clinical practice guidelines, performance excellence, inpatient and outpatient medical and behavioral health care delivery settings; epidemiologic outbreak surveillance; and observational, interventional, econometric and clinical trials research. He has had thousands of interactions with patients and their families and published and presented several research publications. Mr. Wesson earned a Master of Public Health in Health Policy & Management from the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Wesson has worked for the Northern California integrated delivery system Kaiser Permanente in Delivery System Planning and also for Stanford Health Care where he has focused on internal team leadership; technology, services, and capital forecasting; business case and strategic and finance options development; risk management; and presentation delivery and development to executives. In October 2017, Mr. Wesson founded the Health Care Development Consultancy (HCDC), a consulting business through which he seeks fulfillment of his lifetime mission of partnerships that always seek to first to understand; always to improve, further to simplify and never further to complicate; and choose people, quality, and pride in positive impact over profits. Mr. Wesson constantly seeks opportunities where his health care research, strategy, organization, financing, delivery, and improvement background lead him to the intersection of patients, business, governance, management, and future viability and growth. Feel free to find my resume at http://bit.ly/jmw110519.