William D. Petasnick, FACHE, is President and CEO of Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital and the Froedtert & Community Health System, Milwaukee, WI.  Prior to joining Froedtert, he was deputy director and chief operating officer, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics; director of operations/chief operating officer, University of North Carolina Hospital; and senior associate director, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics.  

Mr. Petasnick is the 2008 Chair of the American Hospital Association (AHA) Board of Trustees.   Appointed as an at-large AHA Board member in 2004, he is a member of the Executive Committee. Previously, he has served on the Operations Committee and has chaired the Long Range Policy Committee and Audit Committee.  He also chaired the AHA Task Force on Delivery System Fragmentation. Mr. Petasnick has served as a member of the governing council of the Section for Metropolitan Hospitals, an alternate state and section delegate, and most recently as a state delegate for RPB 5. He has also served as an AHA representative to the National Resident Matching Program, and as ex-officio member of the Committee on Health Professions (formerly Coordinating Committee on Medical Education). 

Mr. Petasnick was the 2003 chair of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and is also a board member of the University HealthSystem Consortium. He has chaired the board of the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA), served on its Council on Public Policy, and was awarded the WHA 2005 Distinguished Service Award.  He is also a board member of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, the Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin, and the Downtown Rotary Club of Milwaukee.  He was awarded the Rotary Club of Milwaukee Person of the Year Award in 2006.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Milwaukee Health Care Partnership. 

In the Spring of 2007, he was given an honorary doctorate in Health Management from Universityof Wisconsin– Milwaukeein recognition of his national leadership role in health services administration, and was the first such individual to receive this honor from the UW system. 

Mr. Petasnick is an adjunct associate professor of health management at the Universityof Iowa.   He earned a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MHA from the Universityof Minnesota.   Mr. Petasnick is a Fellow of the American Collegeof Healthcare Executives.