Millennium Magazine_6th Ed

247 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine DONALD CHARLES WEGMILLER W ith an interest in medicine and business, Donald Charles Wegmiller chose health care administration as his future career in the health care industry. He proceeded through various executive positions to today, where he is the chief executive officer of two health care companies, Scottsdale Institute and C-Suite Resources. Commencing his career in 1962 as an assistant administrator at Fairview Hospital in Minneapolis, Mr. Wegmiller has since moved through executive ranks to chief executive officer positions at Health Central System, Health One Corp. and HealthSpan, all forerunners to today’s Allina Health, one of the largest health systems in the Midwest. During his career, he also served as a staff assistant in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. Mr. Wegmiller is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, fromwhom he was awarded the Robert S. Hudgens Award. Then, culminating his career, he was inducted into the Healthcare Hall of Fame in 2013. CHAIRMAN, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, SCOTTSDALE INSTITUTE CHAIRMAN, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, C-SUITE RESOURCES Eden Prairie, MN VICE PRESIDENT, CLINICAL ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF SURGERY, Aurora Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Milwaukee, WI JAMES LEIGHTON WEESE, MD, FACS D r. James Leighton Weese received a BA in biology in 1970 and an MD in 1973, both from the University of Chicago, with the desire to improve the multidisciplinary care of cancer patients. Since 2012, has been vice president of the Aurora Cancer Center, and since 2013, a clinical adjunct professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Prior, Dr. Weese was medical director of Advocate Christ Medical Center Cancer Institute. He has served as division head of surgical oncology at Cooper Hospital and professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery and director of the Cancer Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He was chief of surgical oncology at Presbyterian Medical Center of Philadelphia and Temple University School of Medicine, and chairman of the Department of Surgical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center. In 1992, Dr. Weese delivered the Jonathan Rhoads Oration at the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Over the years, he has also taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Drexel University, University of Pennsylvania and Temple. HEALTH AND WELLNESS