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LEADERSHIP TEAM

David Bartholomew - President and CEO
David joined HCCA in 2009 where his focus is on the company’s domestic strategies including HCCA Anesthesia, a provider of per diem certified registered nurse anesthesia services for physician offices, surgical centers, and hospitals; NRS Healthcare, a Middle Tennessee-based provider of per diem nurse and allied medical staffing; and HCCA Clinical Research Staffing, a provider of specialized clinical trial contract staffing and outsourcing services to universities, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. David has more than 25 years of executive experience in the U.S. staffing industry. David was responsible for growing Nashville-based Staffmark from a one-office startup in 1991 to over 300 locations today, making it one of the largest staffing companies in the U.S. Bartholomew is well known in the staffing industry and has served as chairman of the American Staffing Association.

Ted L. Merhoff - Vice President, Operations and Development
Ted joined HCCA in 1999 bringing over ten years of acute care hospital operations and management experience to the HCCA team. Ted is responsible for daily operations and for development activities of HCCA Health Connections, HCCA's clinical contact center in Manila, Philippines, and for HCCA's health care professional recruitment services across America.

Joe Gilinsky - Vice President and Managing Director, Asia Pacific and Middle East Operations
Joe originally joined HCCA in 1975 holding various international recruitment positions including Director of International Human Resources, Director of Middle East International Human Resources and Director, Far East International Human Resources until 1987. He opened our original offices in Lebanon, Egypt and the Philippines. He has been involved with international health care recruitment for 16 years, sourcing and deploying nurses from such diverse countries as Korea, Thailand, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, UAE, China, India, Singapore, Canada, UK and the Philippines.
Joe returned to HCCA in 2002 to become Vice President and Managing Director of the Asia-Pacific and Middle East Regions. He also oversees HCCA’s operations in the Philippines, Singapore and the UAE, where we source, not only excellent Filipino nurses but Singaporean, Indian, Chinese and Malay nurses from highly sophisticated and modern tertiary medical facilities.
“Of course it is a pleasure to be a premier employer of highly skilled and well trained nurses in the two Regions, but it is even more gratifying to see their interest and appreciation for all of the additional programs and seminars we provide for them to be sure they are successful early in our client facilities. This investment of time and money, which is seldom undertaken by other groups, benefits not only our nurses and clients but usually benefits the home country that has the experience of the nurse who is waiting to be processed for immigration.
I am also pleased that as a company, we intentionally develop strategies for giving back to the local markets through educational speakers, leadership seminars, nursing school fellowships, school curriculum development and skills fair training events for senior nursing students. It’s a way of being involved and a part of communities, which we consider home.”

Naseem Kasam, RN - Director of Clinical Operations and Recruitment
Naseem brings seventeen years of clinical health care and quality experience to the HCCA team. Kasam began her nursing career in Memphis, TN and continued in trauma step down at the University of KY, Lexington. Upon earning a degree in health administration, she began managing the physician peer review program at a local hospital. She then became manager of clinical quality for a radiology benefits managed care organization. Among Kasam’s duties at HCCA are nurse recruitment and sponsorship, education, quality, acculturation and project management.