Saria Saccocio, MD, FAAFP, MHA

Chief Medical Officer for Essence Healthcare, Lumeris

Dr. Saccocio has demonstrated a consistent history of leading award-winning programs and improving patient care and safety across the continuum as a Chief Medical Officer for health care delivery systems, including on the payer and health system environments. She received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Florida, and her Executive Master of Health Administration from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She completed her Family Medicine residency at the University of Miami before opening her own solo family practice. She continues to serve patients at the Greenville Free Medical Clinic.

Becker’s Hospital Review has recognized Dr. Saccocio as one of the top 100 Hospital and Health System CMOs to Know and has been elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Her extensive civic involvement has included serving with many national, state, and local community organizations such as: the Modern Healthcare Women Advisory Board, Pisacano Leadership Foundation, South Carolina Hospital Association, United Way of Greenville County; Greenville Free Medical Clinic, the South Carolina Academy of Family Physicians, and is an Alum of the Women’s Leadership Institute and the Diversity Leadership Institute and Women of Distinction for Women’s Basketball at Furman University.