Dan Wolterman, M.B.A., M.H.A.
President and CEO
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
Houston, Texas

Dan Wolterman, M.B.A., M.H.A., joined Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in 1999 as Senior Vice President and was named President and CEO in 2002. An integrated system serving the health care needs of the people of southeast Texas, the Memorial Hermann system includes 16 hospitals that generate approximately $5.5 billion in gross revenues. Annual community benefit contributions exceed $229,000. With more than 3,500 beds and 19,000 employees, Memorial Hermann is the ninth largest secular, not-for-profit healthcare system in the country and the largest not-for-profit health care system in Texas.

Prior to joining Memorial Hermann, Wolterman served as senior vice president of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word Health Care System for six years and president and CEO of Holy Cross Health System of Utah for five years.  He also has extensive experience with managed care plans, physician group practices and various types of collaborative programs.  Mr. Wolterman has 27 years’ experience in the health care industry.

Wolterman’s community involvement presently includes: chairman of Voluntary Hospitals of America-Texas Board of Directors, chairman of Texas Hospital Association, chair-elect of the Greater Houston Partnership (GHP), chairman of the GHP Air Quality Task Force; board or committee member of: Community Health Corporation, National Quality Forum, Coalition to Protect America’s Healthcare, American Heart Association, United Way, Center for Houston’s Future, Harris County Healthcare Alliance, Houston Minority Business Council, Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.  In addition, he serves on the Greater Houston Partnership’s Health Care Advisory Committee, Texas Medical Center Self-Pay Task Force and the University of Houston-Clear Lake Healthcare Administration Program Graduate Advisory Board.  Wolterman also serves as an advisor on the Development Advisory Council of the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center and the HealthLeaders Media Editorial Advisory Board and as an Adjunct Professor at The University of Texas School of Public Health.

Wolterman earned an M.B.A. in Finance in 1980 and an M.H.A. from Xavier University in 1982 and in 1979 a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati.  Honors include: 2007 recipient of the American Hospital Association Texas Grassroots Champion Award; first place, American College of Hospital Administrators’ Financial Management and Regulation Game; 1990 recipient of Modern HealthCare’s “Up and Comers” Award; and diplomat of the American College of Healthcare Executives.  Wolterman and his wife Lori have three children.