10 Mayo Clinic IT leaders
Vice chair, division chair, section head and unit head are the titles that run through these Mayo Clinic IT records: four people have held vice chair titles, covering EMRs and clinical systems, enterprise applications, technology administration and the Shields application portfolio, and others chair infrastructure and service delivery divisions or direct storage, lab IT and cyber defense. Health systems setting up clinical and enterprise IT governance should start here.
Professionals to explore
April Carlson
LinkedInExperience: Cyber Defense Director · Mayo Clinic
April Carlson has been Cyber Defense Director at Mayo Clinic since 2025 and was Senior Manager, Information Security (2019-2025). Other Mayo Clinic titles were Mayo Clinic (Chief) Privacy Officer (2013-2020), Data Protection Officer (2018-2020) and Privacy Investigations Manager (2013), a mix of privacy and security leadership suited to questions on patient data protection.
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Chuck Treder
LinkedInExperience: Vice-chair IT · Mayo Clinic
Chuck Treder has been Vice-chair IT at Mayo Clinic since 2013, responsible for the EMRs and clinical systems across all Mayo Clinic sites. That remit makes Chuck Treder the person to ask how a multi-site health system runs and governs its EMR and clinical applications, and how changes are rolled out across sites.
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Dave McGraw
LinkedInExperience: Director · Mayo Clinic
Dave McGraw has been a Director at Mayo Clinic since 2025, a role their LinkedIn profile gives as Director - Compute, Storage and Hosting Services, and was Head of Section (2024-2025) and Unit Head - Storage Management (1998-2024) there. More than two decades as storage unit head make Dave McGraw a fit for questions on storage, compute and hosting capacity at Mayo Clinic.
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Eric Steiner
LinkedInExperience: Director of Technology · Mayo Clinic
Director of Technology at Mayo Clinic since 2026, leading IT for a laboratory technology environment that supports diagnostic and laboratory services. Eric Steiner was Director of Technology at Eurasia Group (2020-2025), CIO at Berdon (2001-2018) and Vice President of Technology at J.P. Morgan (1998-2001), useful for laboratory IT and for comparing healthcare IT with other industries.
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Jefferson Lett
LinkedInExperience: Division Chair, Enterprise IS Service Del · Mayo Clinic
Division Chair, Enterprise IS Service Del at Mayo Clinic since 2021, overseeing a team of over 450 professionals and contractors in IT infrastructure and service delivery. Jefferson Lett was Director of Infrastructure and Data Services at the State of Connecticut (2020-2021), Sr. Program Manager AI Product Development - Global PMO at IBM (2017-2019) and Chief Information & Facilities Officer at Center for Human Development (CHD) (2015-2017).
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Kristen Wende
LinkedInExperience: Former Vice Chair, Technology Administration & Operations · Mayo Clinic
Kristen Wende was Vice Chair, Technology Administration & Operations and Division Chair, Information Technology at Mayo Clinic (both 2021-2025), and Section Head, Information Technology (2010-2021). Program Manager, Application Engineering Services (2004-2010) and Senior Systems Manager, Technical Engineering Services (2002-2004) round out a long Mayo Clinic IT record suited to IT administration and operations questions.
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Laura Unverzagt
LinkedInExperience: IT Vice Chair - Enterprise Applications · Mayo Clinic
IT Vice Chair - Enterprise Applications at Mayo Clinic since 2022 and Division Chair since 2018. Laura Unverzagt also held Section Head-IT (2011-2018), Assistant Section Head (2010-2011) and Unit Head (2006-2010) titles there, a path through several management levels that suits questions on enterprise application portfolios and IT management structure.
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Mark Henderson
LinkedInExperience: Division Chair - Information Technology · Mayo Clinic
Division Chair - Information Technology at Mayo Clinic, a role shown from 1992 to the present, Mark Henderson leads a team of 300 professionals responsible for enterprise infrastructure architecture, design and service delivery. Board roles with Ronald McDonald House (2015-2018) and the Rochester MN School District advisory council (2012-2017) are also listed.
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Neal Sanger
LinkedInExperience: Mayo Clinic Health System - Regional Chief Information Officer · Mayo Clinic Health System in Rochester
Neal Sanger is Mayo Clinic Health System - Regional Chief Information Officer (since 2005) and Administrator, IT Customer Organization at Mayo Clinic (since 2015). Earlier roles were Consulting Executive at Perot Systems Government Services (2003-2005) and Vice President, Cerner Consulting at Cerner Corporation (1997-2003), a fit for regional health system IT and Cerner consulting questions.
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Ram D.
LinkedInExperience: Vice Chair - Shields Application Portfolio · Mayo Clinic
Ram D. became Vice Chair - Shields Application Portfolio in 2026, reporting to the Chief Information Officer, and has chaired the Division of Enterprise Platform Services since 2025. Earlier Mayo Clinic titles were Chair of the Division of Mayo Clinic Cloud Platform (2019-2025), Chair of Enterprise Platform Services (2017-2019) and Section Head - Enterprise API and Integration (2015-2017), so cloud platform and integration questions fit.
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Choose the right perspective
Clinical systems and EMR questions go to Chuck Treder; enterprise applications to Laura Unverzagt or Ram D. For infrastructure and service delivery, pick Mark Henderson, Jefferson Lett or Dave McGraw; for security and privacy, April Carlson. Neal Sanger covers IT for regional sites, Eric Steiner laboratory technology, and Kristen Wende IT administration and operations.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Mayo Clinic decide which clinical and enterprise applications are standardized across all its sites and which stay local?
- 02How are IT investment requests from clinical, research and administrative leaders weighed against each other at Mayo Clinic?
- 03How does Mayo Clinic decide which systems move onto its cloud platform, and who owns them once they do?
About this directory
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