Gottlieb Memorial Hospital Announces Chief Medical Officer
June 9, 2025CONTACT:
Allison Peters
708-216-6140
MAYWOOD, IL - Sameer Qazi, MD, assumed the role of Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital on June 8, 2025.
In his new role, Dr. Qazi will oversee quality and safety, medical staff functions and peer review processes at Gottlieb. Dr. Qazi currently serves as an associate professor in the department of medicine at Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine.
Dr. Qazi has served in progressively senior leadership positions since joining Loyola Medicine as a hospital medicine physician in 2014. Serving in his current role as Gottlieb's associate CMO since 2022, he has been instrumental in achieving operational goals, including improvements in length of stay, observation hours, readmission rates and other quality benchmarks. He has also established a complex care committee to manage challenging patient cases and implemented operational strategies to enhance patient safety, performance and physician recruitment.
Dr. Qazi earned his medical degree from Windsor University School of Medicine, completed his internal medicine residency at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, and is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
"Dr. Qazi is a respected leader within our organization, and I have no doubt he will excel within this new role, helping Gottlieb continue to provide the best care to its patients," said Shawn P. Vincent, president and CEO of Loyola Medicine.
About Loyola Medicine
Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC), Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from nearly 2,000 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. LUMC is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the John L. Keeley, MD, Emergency Department, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, the Nancy W. Knowles Orthopaedic Institute, a certified comprehensive stroke center, transplant center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing.
Established in 1961, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital is a 235-licensed-bed community hospital in Melrose Park that includes the Judd A. Weinberg Emergency Department, the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care, Loyola Cancer Care & Research at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center, acute rehabilitation, a transitional care center, childcare center and fitness center. Founded in 1919, MacNeal Hospital is a 349-licensed-bed teaching hospital in Berwyn with advanced medical, surgical and psychiatric services and a 68-bed behavioral health program.
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About Trinity Health
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 127,000 colleagues and more than 38,300 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 26 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 93 hospitals, 107 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 142 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2024, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $1.3 billion in its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. For more information, visit us at www.trinity-health.org, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X (formerly known as Twitter).