Mark Morales

Vice President and Chief Talent Officer, Texas Health Resources

Mark has served Texas Health Resources over the past 20 years in many different capacities. He is currently the Chief Talent Officer whose responsibilities include oversite of talent acquisition, talent development and executive recruitment. 

Mark has more than 35 years of human resources leadership experience in a variety of healthcare settings, including both hospital- and physician-based delivery models. His career spans over three decades of human resources experience in a variety of healthcare settings and includes both hospital and physician-based delivery models in the not for profit and proprietary environments. 

He began his career at Texas Health in 2002, as the vice president of Workforce Planning and Recruitment. In 2010, he was promoted to the role as vice president of Executive Recruitment. During his time, he established Texas Health’s internal executive search function and implemented the first systemwide electronic applicant tracking system. 

Prior to that, he was vice president of Human Resources at HCA-The Health Care Company (Methodist Healthcare System) in San Antonio. While there he consolidated and centralized dispersed human resources functions into a singular systemwide enterprise. 

Before moving to Texas Mr. Morales, a California native, began his career at Tri-City Medical Center, a district hospital, in Oceanside, California as Director of Human Resources. He later joined Sharp Healthcare System in San Diego where he was the Assistant Administrator for Human Resources at the Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group. After that Mr. Morales was appointed Assistant Administrator for Human Resources at USC University Hospital in Los Angeles, California a joint venture between National Medical Enterprise and the University of Southern California School of Medicine. He was part of the original leadership team that commissioned the hospital as one of the last built private-practice teaching hospitals in the United States.