Major General, US Army, retired
Jeff Clark has been a USAFP member for over three decades serving as President, Vice President, and Annual Program Co-Chair. During his 35 years of military service, he served as a family physician with teams in both garrison and operational assignments and as CEO at the clinic, hospital, academic medical center, and geographic regional levels and as COO and CMO at the enterprise level. During the last decade of his military career he served as Commander, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center; Commander, Europe Regional Medical Command; Director, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center; Director, National Capitol Region MultiService Market; J3/Director of Health Care Operations and CMO, Defense Health Agency; and Deputy Commanding General for Operations and Chief of the Medical Corps, US Army Medical Command. He currently serves in semiretirement as a DHA Senior Mentor Advisor; Medical Director, Semper Fi & America’s Fund; and on the nonprofit Boards of WarDocs: The Military Medicine Podcast and of the American College of Nurse Midwives. Sue and Jeff Clark have been married for 42 years; they are blessed with 3 children, 3 children-in-law, 2 granddaughters, and a Golden Doodle
Professional Experience
Defense Health Agency Senior Leader Mentor, remote. November 2022-present.
Serves as a senior advisor to the DHA Director and senior leaders providing insights, perspective, guidance and a sounding board for the development, presentation, and execution of Military Health System strategy. Serves similar function for individual Military Treatement Facility Directors; upon request attends individual MTF strategy sessions to provide advice and assist with assuring MTF way-ahead aligns with DHA strategy.
Medical Director, Semper Fi & America’s Fund, remote. March 2023-present.
Serves as Medical Director for a non-profit supporting over 29,000 severely wounded, ill, and injured post 9-11 Service Members and their Families. Provide insights and advice in data analysis, organization, and programs to shape operations and strategy.
New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD), Santa Fe, NM. (2019-2022)
COO and Chief Medical Officer, US Army Medical Command, San Antonio, TX (2018-2019)
Responsible for quality, virtual health, and business operations provided by four regional health commands (each commanded by a general officer) across three continents; over 450 health facilities, caring for 3.8M patients; budget of $4.8B. Oversight included all Service Lines (Primary Care, Behavioral Health, Surgery, Women and Infants, Dental, etc.) while focusing resources to achieve strategic goals and ensuring stewardship and accountability. Implemented six nationally recognized Quality & Safety practices–ensuring leader accountability–across all 450 facilities resulting in 20% decrease in reportable patient safety events.
Chief, US Army Medical Corps.
COO and Chief Medical Officer, Defense Health Agency, Falls Church, VA (2016-2018)
Responsible for developing, integrating, synchronizing, and executing Military Health System (MHS) policy in support of 9.4M service members, retirees, and family members; Clinical Functional Champion for the DoD electronic health record (MHS GENESIS) ensuring clinical interoperability, patient safety, and cyber security.
Responsible for expanding and refining DHA’s Combat Support Agency mission into a supporting-to-supported relationship with DoD’s regional Combatant Commands (CCMD); personal, engaged collaboration with the Joint Staff Surgeon and CCMD Surgeons established proactive understanding and response to CCMD requirements.
CEO, National Capitol Region Medical, Bethesda, MD (2015-2016)
Integrated Army, Navy, and Air Force medical facilities and the Tricare network within the National Capitol Area into an integrated health system caring for over 450K patients; budget of $1.2B.
Collaborated with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences’ (USUHS) President and Deans of School of Nursing and Medicine to establish the first-ever DoD Academic Health System, an integration of the regional health care system and USUHS to optimize clinical care, education and research for the benefit of our patients and our learners.
Via a collaborative effort of our Tri-Service Market leaders, developed and initiated implementation of our five-year regional health care system strategy including integration of our medical facilities into the Academic Health System.
CEO, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD (2013-2015)
Led a joint 7000-person team serving in the premier MHS tertiary, academic, Level II trauma medical center; DoD evacuation center for wounded, ill, and injured troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq; MHS leader in graduate medical education and research; first military hospital to be designated a “Leader in LGBT Healthcare Equity”. Established clinical partnerships with local VA hospitals.
Transformed DoD’s most inefficient (productivity per cost) medical center into the 50th percentile; reduced annual expenditures by 10% ($90M) while expanding and improving clinical services; established stewardship and accountability of resources as foundational to our academic medical center’s excellence in patient experience, clinical care, education, and research;
Established the Multi-Federal Cancer Initiative which synchronized the efforts of the National Cancer Institute, USUHS, and WRNMMC’s John P. Murtha Cancer Center to optimize federal cancer research, education, and utilization of health care resources.
CEO, Europe Regional Medical Command, Heidelberg, Germany (2012-2013)
Led all medical, dental, veterinary, and public health units in Europe; synchronized Tricare network and military facilities in the care of 75K patients; Dual hatted as senior health advisor to the Commander, US Army Europe.
During a time of historic transformation and greatly reduced budgets, led the only fiscally solvent Army Medicine region while continuing to lead the enterprise in key metrics to include access to care, patient experience, and productivity.
CEO, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany (2011-2012)
Led a joint team serving in DoD’s only overseas Level I trauma center; critical link in the DoD trauma care and research system for US and Coalition troops serving in the Middle East and Africa resulting in the highest wounded-in-action survival rates in the history of warfare.
Chief of Medical Corps Branch, US Army Human Resources Command, Ft Knox, KY (2010-2011)
Oversaw policy, talent management, and assignments for our Army’s 4000 physician officers.
US Forces Korea (USFK) Surgeon and CEO of all US Army medical units in Korea (2008-2010)
Dual-hatted as the principal health policy advisor for the USFK Commander and as CEO responsible for leading an integrated health care system of military facilities and Tricare network while ensuring readiness to transition to hostilities.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Doctor of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Master of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Master of Strategic Studies, US Army War College, Carlisle, PA
Recognition and Awards
Republic of Korea Order of National Security Merit, Samil Medal
Distinguished Service Medal
Bronze Star (2 awards)
Davidson College Distinguished Alumnus Award
East Carolina University Distinguished Alumnus Award
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Distinguished Service Award
Volunteer
Chair, Board of Directors, WarDocs: The Military Medicine Podcast
Member, Board of Directors, American College of Nurse Midwives
Member, Board of Directors, Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians Foundation