Dr. Wessel has administrative responsibility for 900 employed physicians and accountability for another 2,000 hospital employees. He also oversees six clinical centers of excellence, five institutes, a clinically integrated network and other partnerships within the system. Over the past few years, Dr. Wessel co-chaired the hospital’s Covid-19 response and was instrumental in organizing international webinars on Covid-19 in children. Under his leadership, U.S. News & World Report ranked the hospital No. 5 in the nation for pediatric care for 2023-24.
