Lt. General Mark Hertling, DBA


Lieutenant General (retired) Mark Hertling retired from the Army in December 2012, finishing his 38-year Army career as the Commanding General of US Army, Europe.  He also commanded the Army’s 1st Armored Division and Task Force Iron in combat in Northern Iraq in 2007-8. He received a BS from West Point, an MS from Indiana University’s School of Public Health, and an MA from the National Defense University. In 2019, Mark received a DBA from the Crummer School of Business, Rollins College, defending research addressing physician leadership in the healthcare industry.

Hertling was a senior vice-president at AdventHealth from 2012-2018. After writing “Growing Physician Leaders,” he now teaches at several other health care facilities.  He is an adjunct scholar of strategic leadership at the Crummer School of Business, Rollins College and he serves on the Dean's Alliance at Indiana University’s School of Public Health.  Previously, he served on the President Obama’s Council for Fitness, Sport and Nutrition from 2014-2017, and recently he was appointed to the American Battle Monuments Commission by President Biden.  Mark is also a military and national security analyst for CNN/CNN International.