Mr. Van Houweling has served as CEO of University Medical Center of Southern Nevada for 12 years, making him the longest-serving CEO in the hospital’s 95-year history. He leads more than 4,500 employees at Nevada’s only nonprofit level 1 trauma center, verified burn center and multi-organ transplant center. He has strengthened UMC’s role as Nevada’s premier academic medical center and the anchor partner for the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, which trains 66 medical students per class along with approximately 340 residents and fellows across 20 accredited programs, including a new diagnostic radiology residency program whose inaugural class began in July 2026. Under his leadership, the medical center became the first hospital in Nevada to introduce the da Vinci 5 robotic surgery system, which provides surgeons with force feedback during procedures, and has developed in-house employed physician groups across service lines including orthopedics, radiology, anesthesiology and emergency medicine to address physician shortages and rising contract labor costs. In January 2026, UMC became the first and only hospital in Nevada to achieve Magnet recognition for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Mr. Van Houweling serves on the American Hospital Association’s board of trustees and the Nevada Hospital Association’s board of directors.
