Executive Staff Directory

Mercy Medical Center Executives

Thomas E. Cecconi

President & Chief Executive Officer

Thomas E. Cecconi serves as President & Chief Executive Officer of Mercy Medical Center. Mr. Cecconi served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Mercy Medical Center from February 2002 to April 2003. Prior to serving at Mercy, Mr. Cecconi was President & Chief Executive Officer of Doctors Hospital of Stark County from 1991 to 2002. He is a graduate of John Carroll University and received a Masters in Business Administration from Baldwin Wallace College.

A native of Canton, Mr. Cecconi started his career in healthcare administration at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1973. In 1980, he joined Hospital Management Professionals of Brentwood, TN. During that time, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Virginia Regional Medical Center in Virginia, MN; President of Paris Community Hospital in Paris, IL; President & CEO of Rutherford Hospital in Rutherfordton, NC; and as a Group Vice President for Hospital Management Professionals.

Mr. Cecconi is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and received the CEO Award of Excellence from the College of Osteopathic Healthcare Professionals in 1996. He is a member of the Walsh University Board of Directors, Sr. Vice Chairman of the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce Board of Trustees and the Chairman of the Akron Regional Hospitals Association. He is also a member of the Stark County Development Board and past member of the Massillon Chamber Board of Trustee.

Sister Carolyn Capuano, HM

Vice President of Mission and Ministry Services

Sister Carolyn Capuano is the Vice President of Mission and Ministry Services here at Mercy Medical Center. Sister Carolyn has a M.S. in Biological Sciences from Cleveland State University with a concentration in bioethics and an M.T.S. in Theology from West Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, MA (Boston College STM) with a concentration in spirituality.

Sister has served as director of Villa Maria Retreat Center and has also taught for many years at secondary and community college levels.

Sister Carolyn serves as a member of the Board of Directors for United Way of Greater Stark County and for St. John's Villa in Carrollton. She is also a member of the Catholic Consortium of Stark County.

Lynne S. Dragomier

Vice President of Public Relations and Marketing

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David L. Gormsen, D.O., F.A.C.E.P.

Vice President & Chief Medical Officer

David L. Gormsen, D.O., F.A.C.E.P., has served as Vice President & Chief Medical Officer of Mercy Medical Center since 2001. Dr. Gormsen is a graduate of Defiance College and received his medical degree from Chicago of Osteopathic Medicine.

Dr. Gormsen has been an Emergency Medicine Physician at Mercy Medical Center since 1986. He serves as Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mercy and is Director of Mercy Statcare in North Canton. Dr. Gormsen in board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He has served as Assistant Clinical Professor at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine since 1989 and is Administrative Director of the Canton Medical Education Foundation. Dr. Gormsen was President of the Mercy Medical Staff from 1999 to 2000 and President-Elect of the Medical Staff from 1997 to 1998. He is Chairman of the Mercy Utilization Review Committee and is a member of the Medical Executive Committee. He is a member of the American College of Physician Executives.

Dr. Gormsen served in the United States Navy as an U.S. Naval Flight Surgeon. He was Co-Director of the United Way of Central Stark County Fund Drive in 1998. He has participated in the Annual Medical Mission to the Dominican Republic since 1998. Dr. Gormsen serves as a Board member of The Arc (Association for Retarded Citizens) of Stark County and Families First of Stark County.

Matthew A. Heinle

Vice President & General Counsel

Matthew A. Heinle serves as Vice President & General Counsel for Mercy Medical Center. Mr. Heinle was a co-managing partner in corporate and health law at Brennan, Manna & Diamond in Akron, Ohio, where he practiced from 1995 to 2008. He holds a Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University College of Law and a bachelor's degree in finance from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

A Northeast Ohio native, Mr. Heinle's career has focused on health law, corporate law, and mergers and acquisitions. He has advised and represented a wide range of health care providers on regulatory compliance (federal, state and local), managed care contracting and negotiating, fraud and abuse, HIPAA, Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement, joint ventures and staffing matters. In addition, he frequently lectures on federal and state issues that affect health care providers, such as anti-dumping statutes, managed care, and confidentiality of medical records and peer review information.

Mr. Heinle is affiliated with the Ohio State Bar, Akron Bar and American Health Lawyers Associations.

Michael Rieger

Vice President and CFO

Michael Rieger has served as Vice President & CFO at Mercy Medical Center since October 2004. Mr. Rieger is a graduate of Kent State University and earned a master of business administration degree from Ashland University.

A Mercy employee since 1979, Mr. Rieger has held many positions at the hospital including Senior Staff Accountant, Director of Internal Audit, Director of Financial Analysis, controller and Interim CFO. He was the CFO/Vice President for Finance at Mercy for Columbia/HCA. Mr. Rieger has also acted as Chairman of the Mercy Financial Accountability Committee and was responsible for creating the Mercy Internal Audit Department, as well as the implementation of various financial systems at the Medical Center.

Mr. Rieger spent previous years as a manager of audit and reimbursements for Blue Cross of Canton (Anthem) and accountant/treasurer for Merket, Inc. in Akron, OH.

Mr. Rieger is a member of the HealthCare Financial Management Association and a board member of Ohio Health Choice Plan. Additionally, he serves as a board member/treasurer of Stark County Meals on Wheels and the Western Stark County Medical Clinic.

Ahmed El Ghamry Sabe, M.D.

Executive Director of Cardiovascular Services

Ahmed El Ghamry Sabe, M.D., has been Director of Cardiovascular Services at Mercy Medical Center since 1996 and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory since 1995. Dr. Sabe also serves as Co-Director of Mercy Medical Center's Emergency Chest Pain Center.

Dr. Sabe is a Harvard-trained interventional cardiologist. He previously served as an interventional cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and was Director of Inverventional Cardiology at Pennsylvania State University's Milton Hershey Medical Center.

In 1996, Dr. Sabe performed Stark County's first transseptal mitral valvuloplasty; Mercy is one of only three centers in Ohio to perform this procedure. Dr. Sabe also performed Stark County's first coronary rotablator atherectomy, Stark County's first intracoronary ultrasound, and Stark County's first extraction atherectomy and first percutaneous aortic balloon valvuloplasty. In 1997, he performed the nation's first transeptal valvuloplasty on a mitral valve with surgically implanted Carpentier ring.

In 1998 Dr. Sabe performed the world's first angioplasty in an emergency department, Stark County's first unprotected left main coronary stent and Stark County's first radial stent coronary angioplasty.

In 1999, Dr. Sabe presented the first national findings on ER angioplasty within the Emergency Room at the 72nd Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2000, he reported on the lowest mortality rate of any Chest Pain Center in the U.S. at the Society of Chest Pain Centers Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland.

In 2001, Dr. Sabe initiated the nation's first ER use of cardiopulmonary Bypass to resuscitate victims of heart attack and performed Akron/Canton's first gamma brachytherapy.

Dr. Sabe is a Board Certified Interventional Cardiologist, a Fellow
of the American College of Cardiologists and is a Fellow of the American Society of Angiography & Intervention where he is an active member of the Lab Standards Committee, the Credential Committee and the Coronary Intervention Committee. He is also a member of the American College of
Cardiovascular Administrators, American College of Physician Executives,
American Heart Association and American College of Physicians. Dr. Sabe
serves as a Board member of the American Heart Association of Stark
County.

Jeffrey L. Smith

Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer

Jeffrey L. Smith served as Vice President of Mercy Medical Center since 1998. Mr. Smith is a graduate of Marquette University and received a Masters degree in Health Administration from the University of Colorado. He is board certified in healthcare management and a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Mr. Smith was Division Director of Materials Management for the Columbia Ohio Division from 1997 to 1998. From 1991 to 1997 Mr. Smith served as Director of Materials Management at Mercy Medical Center. Prior to that, Mr. Smith was Director of Purchasing for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Mr. Smith serves on the Coming Together Stark County Board of Directors. He is also a member of the Stark Prescription Assistance Network Board and the Pathway Caring for Children Board. He is a graduate of Leadership Stark County (18th), and volunteers with the Mercy PALS Program.

Thomas F. Turner

Vice President of Development, Physician Services and Government Relations
President – Mercy Medical Center Development Foundation

Thomas F. Turner is the Vice President of Business Development & Government Relations here at Mercy Medical Center. He also is President of the Mercy Medical Center Development Foundation and leads Mercy’s Physician Relations office and the Mercy Professional Care Corporation.  Mr. Turner holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from The Ohio State University and a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University.

Mr. Turner has worked in healthcare administration, development and public affairs for over 25 years. He most recently served as the Vice President for Business Development and Government Relations at Akron Children’s Hospital in Akron, OH. Prior to joining Akron Children’s, Tom was Vice President of Development and Marketing at Doctors Hospital. From 1981-1994, he was President/Executive Director of the Arthritis Foundation chapters in Central Arizona, Northern California and Southern California.

Mr. Turner also teaches MBA Marketing Management and Advertising courses at Walsh University in North Canton, OH, where he has been an adjunct professor in the School of Business since 1998.

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