About Kenneth D. Wells, MD
Dr. Kenneth Wells is a seasoned executive with extensive corporate health experience, spanning clinical medicine, health benefits, public health, pharmacy, and risk management. He is an experienced board member with global, strategic, and operational expertise applicable to multiple markets. He has served as chairman of multiple boards and board committees. He is a frequent speaker at global health conferences and universities on healthcare policy, population health, and corporate health/benefit strategies.
Ken’s business career of 30+ years delivering tailored healthcare services and corporate wellness programs around the world ensures a seasoned, even visionary, perspective on how companies build successful businesses. His advanced clinical skills, and extensive, up-to-date knowledge of contemporary medical practices and healthcare trends, bring subject matter expertise. His ability to integrate the objective with the subjective, plus a strategic mindset, commercial orientation, technology interests, and disciplined fiscal approach, contributes to boardroom deliberations and decisions. His acumen gained from oversight roles within international, complex, and extremely dynamic organizations is being leveraged in boardroom guidance to senior leaders. He has earned a boardroom reputation as collaborative, thoughtful, focused, and knowledgeable. He is a diversity candidate embracing diversity.
Dr. Wells is the Chief Medical Officer for the Marsh McLennan Agency Southwest. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, where he chaired the Governance Committee and was a member of the Audit and Quality Committees. He is currently on the board of the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio and a member of the Academic Affairs Committee. Throughout the past two decades, he has served on nine other not-for-profit boards and six different advisory boards, gaining experience on many committees, including executive, governance, nominations, HR, and quality.
Ken founded Alken Health Resources as an administrative resource to provide medical direction and health consulting services to Fortune-size companies. He has developed and managed dozens of national and international health management programs for clients, delivering substantial savings and efficiencies. He has advised a global conglomerate, major energy, and insurance companies, top U.S. municipality, hospitals, NASA, and the nation’s largest railroad, in their efforts to develop innovative health solutions to improve quality and control costs.
Dr. Wells earned a master’s in management from Northwestern University. He holds a medical doctorate and master’s in public health from the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston. He has a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Texas Southern University. He completed a fellowship in primary care policy with the U.S. Department of H&HS. He completed residencies in occupational and family medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center and aviation medicine instruction at the U.S. Army School of Aerospace Medicine. He is licensed to practice medicine in Texas and holds a Texas insurance license. He attained certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources from the HR Certification Institute (SHRM).
Ken and his wife, Kathy, reside in Houston, Texas.
Education
Dr. Wells graduated with a Master of Arts from Northwestern University, with a Bachelor of Pharmacy from Texas Southern University, and with a Doctor of Medicine from University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Kenneth D. Wells, MD earned a degree of a Doctor of Medicine.
Licenses
Kenneth D. Wells, MD has been registered with the National Provider Identifier database since October 04, 2006, and his NPI number is 1346335551.
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