As system vice president for supply chain, culinary and clinical nutrition services, and healthcare technology management, Mr. Ouellet leads a team of more than 750 professionals supporting care across UW Health’s system in Wisconsin and northern Illinois. He executes a clinically integrated strategy for support services through data, physician and clinician engagement, and by building relationships across his team, taking a system-first approach that lets UW Health leverage enterprise scale to lower the cost of care across community-based primary care and academic medical center settings alike. In his first 18 months with UW Health, Mr. Ouellet led major system integration efforts, including an enterprise resource planning implementation, medical supply standardization and process improvement initiatives that produced multimillion-dollar savings. He also led the relaunch of the value analysis program, shifting its priority toward how supplies are used and reducing variation in practice rather than primarily introducing new products. Under his leadership, UW Health has earned more than a dozen national Practice Greenhealth honors over the past 18 months, including multiple “Circle of Excellence” awards for its sustainable food services program. In 2025, UW Health won the grand prize in Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth’s national “Health Care Culinary Contest,” a recognition for excellence in both culinary innovation and sustainable, plant-forward care.
