U.S. HealthWorks names new CMO, senior VP

U.S. HealthWorks named Dr. Mark Pucek as chief medical officer and promoted Dr. Bernyce Peplowski to the newly created position of senior VP for national medical policy and innovation.

Pucek, a member of the company's executive committee since 1998, previously was regional medical director for the Southeast and Southwest. He was the founder and owner of the Houston Center for Occupational Medicine, the first occupational medicine practice to be acquired by U.S. HealthWorks, which now has 208 centers and worksite locations in 19 states.

Peplowski, according to a news release, “will develop national medical initiatives to create the benchmark for how medicine is practiced in the occupational medical clinic setting.” She joined U.S. HealthWorks in 2012 as VP and CMO for California and previously was medical director for the California State Compensation Insurance Fund.

Dignity Health, a not-for-profit hospital system based in San Francisco, acquired U.S. HealthWorks last year for $455 million.