Kevin M. Spiegel serves as president and CEO of Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System, where he oversees the tenth largest public health system in the United States.
Mr. Spiegel joined Erlanger April 2013, after serving more than five years as CEO at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., where he
also served as an assistant professor in the College of Medicine and continues in that role today.
In previous years, he served as president and CEO for Trumbull Memorial Hospital in Warren, Ohio, COO of Southampton (N.Y.) Hospital and deputy commissioner and senior vice president for Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York as a pre-hospital care provider. He served on the NYC 911 Board, REMSCO, held the office of Commander for the NY-2 DMAT Team and served on the board of directors for the Church Health Center in Memphis. Mr. Spiegel is the first pre-hospital care provider to serve as president and CEO of Erlanger Health System.
Currently, Mr. Spiegel serves as a Regent for Tennessee with the American College of Healthcare Executives and acts as an assistant professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He is a board-certified healthcare executive and a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Mr. Spiegel also serves on the Tennessee Hospital Association's board of directors and the Qsource healthcare quality improvement board. He has authored many articles and lectures both nationally and internationally.
Mr. Spiegel holds a master of business administration in healthcare management and finance from Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y. He received his bachelor's degree in psychology from the State University of New York at New Paltz.