Mark has worked in healthcare for 40 years, 35 of which were at some of the largest, most complex facilities in the country; Texas Children’s Hospital, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where he served as Vice Chancellor for Campus Operations for 10 years. He has been an agent of change developing strategies and technologies that are now standard operating procedure in health facilities management. Mark’s flood protection plan while at TCH developed flood protection doors, protecting the institution during tropical storm Alison’s catastrophic flooding in 2001, and multiple hurricanes since, including Harvey. He led the ASHE Health Facilities Commissioning team and co-authored both the ASHE HFCx Guidelines and the Handbook. While at UAMS Mark implemented a three-part infrastructure renewal plan, the first healthcare institution in the country to create co-generation capacities for 100% redundancy for electrical service, utilizing demand side generation strategies and new electric heat pump recovery systems, a forerunner in Institutional Sustainability. Mark served on the ASHE Advisory board from 2008-2014, serving as ASHE president for 2013. He was honored with the selection as ASHE’s Crystal Eagle in 2016 for lifetime achievement.
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