OUR PEOPLE - ASA's Senior Management Team represents collectively over 90 years of experience in senior leadership roles in organizations focused on the delivery of health care services.
Management Team
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Martin is the Chief Executive Officer of the ASA family of companies—ROSA, and RSA—and is the Chief Executive of ASA. Prior to co-founding ASA, Mr. Martin served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Nashville-based Renal Care Group, where he had overall management responsibility for Renal Care Group’s dialysis operations. He helped lead the company’s 450 outpatient dialysis centers treating over 30,000 patients to reach annual revenues of $1.5 billion, culminating in Renal Care Group’s $4 billion sale to Fresenius Medical Care in 2006. Before being promoted to Chief Operating Officer, he served as Group Senior Vice President for Renal Care Group. Prior to joining Renal Care Group in 1997, Mr. Martin was a Vice President for Comprehensive Healthcare of Ohio, a hospital holding company affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he was responsible for strategic planning, managed care and physician practice management development. He began his business career with Continental Cablevision. Mr. Martin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and also holds a Masters in Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Business Management.
Douglas B. Chappell
General Counsel
Douglas B. Chappell joined ASA in January 2007. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Chappell was Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of Renal Care Group, Inc., a NYSE-listed dialysis services provider, from 1998 through 2005. In that capacity, Mr. Chappell was responsible for all legal affairs and compliance activities of Renal Care Group, including mergers and acquisitions, securities law filings, corporate governance issues, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and health care compliance. Before he joined Renal Care Group, Mr. Chappell practiced law at Alston & Bird LLP from 1994 until 1998 and from 1988 until 1992. At Alston & Bird he specialized in corporate and securities law and mergers and acquisitions. From 1992 until 1994, Mr. Chappell was Senior Counsel at Policy Management Systems Corporation, a NYSE-listed provider of computer software and information services to the insurance industry. Mr. Chappell received his A.B. from Duke University and his J.D. from the University of Texas.
Donna Hughes
Interim Chief Financial Officer
Donna H. Hughes joined ASA in July 2007 as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, bringing over 15 years of experience in her field. Ms. Hughes was named Interim Chief Financial Officer in November 2009 and is responsible for overseeing ASA's accounting and finance functions. Prior to joining the company, Ms. Hughes held various positions with Renal Care Group, Inc. from 1999 through 2004, most recently as Vice-President of Financial and Corporate Controller. Ms. Hughes began her career with KPMG and served as a manager in the assurance practice prior to joining Renal Care Group, Inc. Ms. Hughes is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a degree in Accounting from Murray State University.
Joe McLellan
Chief Development Officer
Mr. McLellan's responsibilities include development and oversight of new growth opportunities for Ambulatory Services of America. Prior to joining ASA, Mr. McLellan served as Senior Vice President of Renal Care Group from 2000 to 2006, where he led efforts to bring de novo and acquisition growth to the company. From 1998 to 2000, he was Vice President of operations for MedSynergies, Inc, a practice management group based in Dallas, Texas. Mr. McLellan has held a number of key development roles for pharmacy organizations. He began his career with a pharmacy degree from the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy.
Dr. Dennis provides medical leadership to Radiation Oncology Services of America. Dr. Dennis served at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio in a multitude of roles, most recently as the Chairman of Department of Nephrology and Hypertension from 1992 to 2005. He was instrumental in the creation of Ohio Renal Care Group, a joint venture among the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the MetroHealth System, and Renal Care Group, and served as Chairman of that Board. He received his Bachelors of Science and M.D. degrees from Georgetown University in Washington, DC and completed his Nephrology fellowship at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, where he served on the faculty as Professor of Medicine and Chief of Nephrology.
Vice President, Administration
Vice President of Operations Finance
Mr. Cerino has over 19 years of finance and accounting experience in both the public and private sectors. He is responsible for coordinating operations finance for all ASA entities including the integration of acquisitions. Mr. Cerino joined Renal Care Group in 2001 as a Regional Controller with responsibility for all accounting and reporting functions for two regions. He was promoted to Vice President, Operations Finance in 2004 with financial responsibility over three regions representing 30% of the Renal Care Group’s operations. Prior to joining Renal Care Group, Mr. Cerino was a divisional Controller for Shiloh Industries, a tier I & II automotive supplier. Prior to Shiloh Industries Mr. Cerino was an Audit Senior Manager with Ernst & Young, LLP in Akron, Oh. He is a Certified Public Accountant and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Baldwin Wallace College.
