10 HCA Healthcare executives
HCA Healthcare's CFO is one of ten executives here, all in current roles: three carry chief medical officer titles, three are presidents of service lines such as anesthesia and emergency and hospital medicine, and three are presidents of HCA Healthcare UK, HCA Houston Healthcare and the North Carolina Division. They suit vendors, clinicians and investors working out where clinical, financial and operating decisions get made across HCA's hospitals.
Professionals to explore
Greg Lowe
LinkedInExperience: President · North Carolina Division, HCA Healthcare
Greg Lowe has been President of the North Carolina Division, HCA Healthcare since 2019, based in the Asheville area. Chief Executive Officer roles at Chippenham & Johnston-Willis Hospitals (2016-2019), Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute (2013-2016), Lake Norman Regional Medical Center (2009-2013) and Dyersburg Regional Medical Center (2007-2009) give Greg Lowe four CEO roles to compare.
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John Reay
LinkedInExperience: President and CEO · HCA Healthcare UK
John Reay has been President and CEO of HCA Healthcare UK since 2019 and President of Operations there since 2016, and was CEO London Bridge Hospital at HCA Healthcare (2000-2016). The UK hospitals cover acute elective services "from IVF to maternity to paediatric to all areas of adult care", so John Reay is the person to ask about HCA's private hospital business in the UK.
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Joseph Parra
LinkedInExperience: American Group Chief Medical Officer · HCA Healthcare
For the American Group, Joseph Parra has been Chief Medical Officer at HCA Healthcare since 2025. They were Division Chief Medical Officer at HCA North Texas Division| Medical City Healthcare (2021-2025), Chief Medical Officer at North Florida Regional Medical Center (2019-2021) and at Orange Park Medical Center (2015-2019), and a Hospitalist at Wesley Healthcare (2007-2015), so they can speak to clinical leadership from bedside to group level.
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Mary Saal
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · HCA Healthcare
Mary Saal has been Chief Financial Officer at HCA Healthcare since 2024, a C-level Finance & Accounting role in Nashville. Mary Saal's other titles are also at HCA Healthcare: American Group Controller (2020-2024), East Florida Division Controller (2012-2020), Controller- Palms West Hospital (2010-2012) and Internal Audit (2008-2010). Having held hospital, division and group controller seats fits Mary Saal for questions on how finance is organized at hospital, division and group level.
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Miguel Benet MD MPH FACHE
LinkedInExperience: President, Hospital Based Medicine Services · HCA Healthcare
Hospital-based medicine is Miguel Benet's current area as President, Hospital Based Medicine Services at HCA Healthcare since 2025. They were Executive Vice President at Community Health Systems (2021-2025), Division Chief Medical Officer at Medical City Healthcare (2018-2021) and Chief Medical Officer at North Suburban Medical Center (2015-2016), so they can compare those roles with how hospital-based medicine is organized at HCA.
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Tricia Brady, MD, FASA
LinkedInExperience: President Anesthesia Service Line · HCA Healthcare
Two current HCA Healthcare titles belong to Tricia Brady: President Anesthesia Service Line since 2026 and Chief Medical Officer since 2025. Other roles were Senior Vice President and Reg Chief Clinical Officer at Envision Physician Services (2022-2025) and Member of the Management Board at HCA Sheridan Holdings LLC d/b/a Specialty Physician Solutions (2023-2025), a fit for questions on how an anesthesia service line is organized.
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Troy Villarreal
LinkedInExperience: President · HCA Houston Healthcare
As President of HCA Houston Healthcare since 2016, Troy Villarreal has also been CEO of Medical City Dallas Hospital since 2013. Other CEO roles were at The Medical Center of Plano (2008-2013) and Plaza Medical Center of Fort Worth (2003-2008), useful for questions comparing a hospital CEO seat with the HCA Houston Healthcare presidency.
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Vyvyan Derouen
LinkedInExperience: President Emergency and Hospital Medicine Services · HCA Healthcare
Emergency and hospital medicine operations are Vyvyan Derouen's area as President Emergency and Hospital Medicine Services at HCA Healthcare since 2025, after two Division Vice President terms at HCA Healthcare (2021-2023 and 2023-2025). Earlier titles were Vice President Physician Services at Tift Regional Health System (2019-2021) and Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer at Wellmont Health System (2016-2018). Derouen describes providing executive and operational oversight to the Central & West Texas market for physician services.
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Whitney Staub-Juergens DNP-HSL, MSN, RN, NE-BC
LinkedInExperience: VP and Chief Operating Officer · HCA Healthcare
Digital Transformation & Innovation is where Whitney Staub-Juergens serves as COO, holding VP and Chief Operating Officer at HCA Healthcare since 2026. HCA roles before it were Vice President, Transformation Operations (2025), Vice President, CT&I Clinical Operations and Integration (2022-2025), Assistant Vice President Care Transformation & Innovation Clinical Innovation Hub (2021-2022) and Assistant Vice President of Care Delivery & Integration (2021), which suits questions on taking a clinical innovation from pilot to operations.
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Choose the right perspective
Finance questions belong with Mary Saal. For clinical programs and physician engagement, start with one of the chief medical officers (Pranav Mehta, Tricia Brady or Joseph Parra); for hospital-based services, the service-line presidents Miguel Benet, Vyvyan Derouen and Tricia Brady. John Reay, Troy Villarreal and Greg Lowe are the presidents of HCA Healthcare UK, HCA Houston Healthcare and the North Carolina Division, and Whitney Staub-Juergens covers digital transformation operations.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01Which decisions about a new clinical program sit with corporate leadership, and which with a division or a single hospital?
- 02When a service line such as anesthesia or hospital medicine changes how it staffs, who has to sign off?
- 03What would an outside partner need to show for a pilot at one HCA hospital to be adopted across a division?
About this directory
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