2006

Marketa Wills began attending The Miami Valley School in third grade. For Wills, the healthcare business “seed” was planted early.

She can trace her passion for healthcare administration to her days at MVS, including an Immersion experience in which she shadowed the CEO of a local managed healthcare company.

Following undergraduate studies at Brown University and medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, Wills completed her residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. While she loved direct patient care, her greater interest was in improving healthcare institutions as a whole. This led her back to Philadelphia to the Wharton School where she earned an MBA in finance and healthcare administration.

After Wharton, Wills was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, serving both payor and provider healthcare clinics, and then the director of physician affairs at Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. In 2011, she became an assistant professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and was named the first medical director of the Women’s Behavioral Unit at St. Joseph Medical Center, which offers specialized care for women with emotional challenges.

In 2012, Wills was named associate medical director of OptumHealth, the behavioral health subsidiary of United Healthcare, a Fortune 25 health insurance company covering more than 75 million lives worldwide.