Mark Mugiishi, M.D., F.A.C.S. - President and CEO, Hawaiʻi Medical Service Association (HMSA)

Honolulu, O‘AHU

Dr. Mugiishi is the president and CEO of HMSA, since February 2020. For the majority of his career Dr. Mugiishi has practiced and taught surgery in private practice and in association with the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine. He has served HMSA in a variety of capacities since 1995, from part-time medical director to consultant. In 2015, he joined the leadership team as executive vice president, chief medical officer, and chief health officer.

In addition to his leadership at HMSA, Dr. Mugiishi co-founded the Endoscopy Institute of Hawaiʻi and the Eye Surgery Center of Hawaiʻi, and was a medical director at Hawaiʻi technology accelerators. He was a general surgeon in the state for nearly 30 years and was associate chair of the department of surgery and director of surgical education at the University of Hawaiʻi medical school.

Dr. Mugiishi currently serves as chair of the ʻIolani School Board of Governors. He coached varsity basketball at ʻIolani where he led the team to 11 league championships and seven state championships. He holds the distinction of being the winningest high school basketball coach in state history and, in 2010, coached the All-American Nike Jordan Brand Classic game in Madison Square Garden.

Dr. Mugiishi was a producer of the Broadway musical Allegiance starring George Takei and Lea Salonga, which ran at the Shubert’s Longacre Theater in New York City in 2015-16.

He earned his medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.