Loyola Medicine - Executive Management Team

Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) Cleary is the president of MacNeal Hospital and president of Gottlieb Memorial Hospital. Prior to leading MacNeal, she served as chief financial officer for MacNeal Hospital and Tenet Health's Chicago market region. Ms. Cleary has more than 30 years of experience in hospital finance and management. She began her career as chief financial officer for various investor-owned hospital organizations, moving on to serve as regional vice president of finance operations for Essent Healthcare in Nashville, Tennessee before coming to MacNeal. Ms. Cleary earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Delta State University in Mississippi and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Hospital Finance Management Association and the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Tad A. Gomez joins Loyola from Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) in Gainesville, Georgia, where he was the vice president for professional and support services overseeing lab, pharmacy, radiology and imaging, facilities operations, biomedical engineering, and several other ancillary departments.  Prior to joining NGHS, Mr. Gomez served as the vice president for professional services at Augusta University Medical Center (AUMC) in Augusta, Georgia. Earlier in his career, he held various pharmacy management positions at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, Florida, and Harris Health in Houston, Texas. 

Mr. Gomez has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.  He earned his bachelor of science in pharmacy from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas and his master of science in hospital pharmacy from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.  He completed a 24-month pharmacy residency with an emphasis in Health System Pharmacy Administration at The Ohio State University Medical Center. 

David W. Hecht, MD serves as executive vice president for clinical affairs at Loyola University Medical Center and is regional chief medical officer for Loyola Medicine and Mercy Hospital & Medical Center. He is the immediate past chair of the department of medicine at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. A renowned infectious disease clinician and researcher, Dr. Hecht has been a member of the Stritch faculty for more than 20 years and previously served as director of the division of infectious disease, department of medicine. Dr. Hecht earned his medical degree from Stritch, completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and a fellowship in infectious disease and geographic medicine at Tufts University, Boston.

Peggy Norton-Rosko has more than 30 years of experience in hospital and nursing leadership positions, including serving as chief nurse at both George Washington University Hospital and Centegra Health System. She also developed expertise in clinical program expansion and outcome improvement during her tenure as director of critical care, cardiovascular services, emergency and trauma services at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital.

Ms. Norton-Rosko earned her bachelor of science degree from Northern Illinois University and her master of science degree from Loyola University Chicago. She also earned a doctor of nursing practice in nursing leadership and health system administration from Chamberlain College of Nursing.

Daniel J. Post serves as regional executive vice president, strategy and business development for Loyola Medicine and Mercy Hospital & Medical Center. He is an accomplished healthcare executive with more than 30 years’ experience in program and network development, physician practice management, ambulatory and hospital operations. Mr. Post held responsibility for developing Loyola’s ambulatory network of more than 20 locations and its largest off-campus satellite in Burr Ridge, as well as the implementation of a system-wide electronic medical record. Mr. Post began his career in health care as a respiratory care practitioner and earned both his bachelor of science degree and a master in business administration degree at Loyola University Chicago.