Ron Mehring, MBA, MLS, CISSP

Ron Mehring serves as the Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Technology & Security for Texas Health Resources, one of the largest faith-based, nonprofit health care delivery systems in the United States. The organization’s service area consists of 16 counties and more than 7 million people, the system is committed to providing quality, coordinated care through its Texas Health Physicians Group and 29 hospital locations under the banners of Texas Health Presbyterian, Texas Health Arlington Memorial, Texas Health Harris Methodist and Texas Health Huguley.

At Texas health Resources — an organization with more than 4,100 licensed hospital beds, 6,400 physicians with active staff privileges and more than 29,000 employees – Ron leads Technology Operations, IT Risk Management & Assurance, Cyber Threat Management, and Identity & Access Management.

Ron began his career in technology for the United States Marine Corps. After 21 years of military service, Ron retired from the Marine Corps and joined the Department of Veteran Affairs where he led Compliance Assessment teams within the newly formed Oversight & Compliance group. He also served as the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Deputy Director for Network & Security Operations.

Ron holds a Master of Legal Studies in Healthcare Law and Policy from the Texas A&M School of Law, Master of Business Administration in Risk Management from NYIT and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).