Dan Stultz, M.D., FACP, FACHE, is president and chief  executive officer of the Texas Hospital Association, an Austin-based trade association representing more than 85 percent of the state’s hospitals and health care systems. He is a member of the American Hospital Association’s Regional Policy Board 7 and of the State Hospital Association Executives Forum. A member of the American College of Physicians, he earned designations as a Fellow in 1984; and as a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, he earned designation as a Fellow in 2006.

 

Stultz was president and CEO of Shannon Health System, a three-hospital health system associated with a multi-specialty clinic and legacy insurance company, in San Angelo, Texas, from 1999 until November 2006. He was a member of the THA Board of Trustees during that time, and served as THA chairman for 2004-05.

 

A physician, Stultz practiced internal medicine for more than 25 years. Stultz received his bachelor’s degree from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. He attended medical school at The University of Texas Medical School in Houston, and completed his internship and residency at The University of Kentucky.

 

While in San Angelo, Stultz was Chairman of the San Angelo Chamber of Commerce. Stultz has been honored as a Distinguished Alumni by The University of Texas Medical School in Houston and he is currently serving on three committees at a national level: AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence, AHA’s Physicians Leadership Initiative Task Force; and the Allied Association Advisory Group on Health Care Reform Implementation.