Mark W. Kehrberg.

Mark W. Kehrberg, MD, MS, is senior vice president and chief medical officer of Affinity Health System in Wisconsin. An Oshkosh pediatrician and vice president of Medical Affairs at Mercy Medical Center, Kehrberg leads clinical quality efforts at Affinity's three hospitals, 23 clinics and Network Health Plan. During his tenure at Mercy, Kehrberg led physician and health care teams that garnered rankings to the Solucient Top 100 Hospital and Most Improved Hospitals 2004 lists. Mercy also received a three-year Accreditation with Commendation, the highest commendation by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. This year, Mercy is ranked No. 1 in Wisconsin for overall orthopaedics, joint replacement and spine surgery by HealthGrades. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin Medical School, Kehrberg completed his pediatrics residency at the University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals in Salt Lake City, and a master's in preventive medicine and administrative medicine at UW Madison. While with LaSalle Clinic during the early 1990s, he built a six-person child specialty medical practice in Oshkosh which had no pediatric specialists until that time. When LaSalle Clinic joined Affinity Health System, Kehrberg became a medical director and, eventually, vice president of medical affairs at Mercy Medical Center.

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