Middletown, CT

Mark Masselli is president, CEO, and founder of Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC), one of the country’s largest and most innovative health centers. Masselli founded CHC in 1972 with a group of Wesleyan University students and local community activists on the premise that “Health care is a right and not a privilege”. His journey with CHC throughout the past 50 years is chronicled in the book Peace & Health: How a group of small-town activists and college students set out to change healthcare.

CHC serves over 150,000 patients in Connecticut, providing medical, dental, and behavioral healthcare for the state’s most needy residents. It also offers comprehensive, team-based care in more than 150 school-based health centers throughout the state.

In January 2024, Masselli founded the Moses/Weitzman Health System, the nation’s first primary care health system for underserved populations. The system works with organizations in all 50 states and globally. Organizations within MWHS advance the delivery of primary and specialty care through practice, research, systems transformation, and training the next generation of health care leaders.

Masselli serves as Board Chair of the National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement and is Board Chair of the national specialty e-Consult provider ConferMED. He is a member of the Goodspeed Opera House Board of Trustees. He received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Wesleyan in 2009 and in 2020 was named by the Hartford Business Journal as one of the Health Power 25.