Mark Smith is a consultant with HG Healthcare Consultants. He brings 25 years of clinical practice and hospital management experience to his work with physicians and hospitals across the United States.

Smith’s clinical practice as a surgeon and multiple roles in senior hospital administration make him uniquely qualified to help clients develop solutions to their complex problems. Smith has expertise in system quality and performance improvement, peer review, ongoing and focused professional practice evaluation, management of deficient practitioner performance, criteria-based privileging, low-volume practitioners, ED call and external focused review.      

Smith is board certified in vascular surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He practices part time as a clinical assistant professor of surgery in the vascular and endovascular surgery section at the University of California, Irvine, Medical Center. He also is the chief medical officer for Verisys Corp.