Mission of VA Medical Center

Dr. Daniel S. Zomchek was appointed Director of Milwaukee VA Medical Center June 27, 2016. 

Prior to Milwaukee he served as the Associate Director of the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital since September 2012. 

Previously, he served the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts as Associate Director. Additionally, he served as Health Systems Specialist for the VA Healthcare System of Ohio (VISN 10), where he managed various programs and initiatives across the Network of five medical centers. While in his position at VISN 10, Dr. Zomchek spent two months as Acting Associate Director of the Iron Mountain VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain, Michigan, and as Acting Sub-Initiative Lead for one of the Secretary’s Major Transformation Initiatives. 

Dr. Zomchek’s previous VA experience includes several positions of increasing responsibility at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, including Staff Psychologist, Assistant Chief of Outpatient Mental Health, and Systems Redesign Coordinator for the facility. He served as Acting Hospital Director at Hines VA Hospital – November 2014 to February 2015 and again from June through October of 2015.

Dr. Zomchek received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Loyola University Chicago in 1998 and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Bowling Green State University in 2003. In 2004, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from VHA’s Behavioral Health Leadership Training Program in 2006, the VISN 12 Leadership Development Program in 2007, and the Executive Career Field Program in 2011. Dr. Zomchek is a Certified Mentor and is board certified in Healthcare Management as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.