Vol. XX, No.2 - Cleveland Clinic Alumni Association

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Volume XX, No. 2
Summer 2010
Alumni Connection
A Legacy of Learning
Join Us for the Alumni Reunion
and CME in Las Vegas
Make plans now to attend the first
Cleveland Clinic Alumni Reunion
west of the Mississippi!
Sandy Stranscak
Beloved Alumni
Association Director
Announces Retirement
Those who have had the
privilege to know Alumni
Association Executive Director
Sandra Stranscak during her
36 years at Cleveland Clinic
know her passion for keeping
graduates “in the fold.” She
sees Cleveland Clinic-trained
physicians – current students
through retirees – as part of a
tight-knit family. She takes great
pride in her role of keeping
them connected to Cleveland
Clinic and to each other.
All Cleveland Clinic alumni are invited to
this exciting educational and social event
Sept. 24 to 25, immediately following
Cleveland Clinic’s Heart-Brain Summit
2010 planned for Sept. 23-24 at the new
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain
Health in Las Vegas.
Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas
Frank Gehry, AIA, Architect
The event kicks off Friday evening, Sept. 24,
with a fun Alumni Reunion Party at the Encore Hotel, one of the newest and most
glamorous locations on the Strip. Group room rates are available, making it easy
for alumni to come early or stay late and enjoy all that Las Vegas has to offer. Learn
more about the facility at encorelasvegas.com.
Saturday will feature a half-day of diverse “Hot Topics in Healthcare,” CME lectures
ranging from cardiology to psychiatry, Alzheimer’s to the “Skinny on Bariatric
Surgery,” “Lotions, Potions, Lasers and Peels: Aging Gracefully” and a fact-or-fiction
look at brain-heart connections. Presenters include Michael T. Modic, MD, Chairman,
Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute, and Daniel Nickelson, Emeritus Chairman,
Government Affairs in Washington, DC, on “Healthcare Reform: What Next?”
World-famous author Michael Roizen, MD, Chairman of Cleveland Clinic’s Wellness
Institute, will give the not-to-be-missed lunchtime keynote address.
This commitment has made
leaving the organization she has
come to love a near impossible
endeavor. But in typical
Stranscak form, she announced
her July retirement with a nod
Tours of the building designed by internationally renowned architect Frank Gehry and
valued in excess of $100 million will be offered in the afternoon. The 67,000-squarefoot facility houses clinical and diagnostic space, neuroimaging facilities, physician
offices, research laboratories and a resource library. It also includes an Activities Life
Center for events, seminars and forums.
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INSIDE: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine Class of 2010 Match Results 12
Letters to the editor
Alumni Reunion and CME
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Thank you for obituary
A clinical floor opened in July 2009
and treats patients with a spectrum
of neuro-degenerative disorders
including Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s
and Parkinson’s diseases. Patients
come not only from Nevada and other
Western states but also from across
the United States and other countries.
It is estimated that more than 12,000
patient visits will take place each year.
Thank you so very much for sending the Alumni Connection
magazine with my beloved husband’s obituary (Richard N. Rovner,
MD, Vol. XX, No. 1, Spring 2010 issue). Incredibly, the death of one
of his dear friends, Dr. Bernard Miklos, was recorded directly above
his announcement.
Dick loved his years at Cleveland Clinic and was extremely proud to
have been a fellow there as well as the Chief Resident in Neurology.
The center’s multidisciplinary approach
includes cognitive and physical exercise,
medication, and assessment and
treatment of vascular risk factors, as
well as support and assistance for
caregivers.
Las Vegas businessman Larry Ruvo and
the Keep Memory Alive organization
he established to support research
into brain disorders partnered with
Cleveland Clinic to open the center.
Mr. Ruvo’s father, Lou Ruvo, died from
complications of Alzheimer’s disease
in 1994, and Mr. Ruvo has committed
himself to creating a center to combat
the disease and help others. Partnering
with Cleveland Clinic and its expertise
provided the perfect fit for his vision
and is creating one of the most exciting
projects in healthcare today.
For more information on this exciting
event, please visit www.ccfcme.org/
AlumniReunionNevada2010. Or, you can
contact Marilyn Bryce, Associate Director,
Alumni Relations, at 216.444.2487 or
800.444.3664 or alumni@ccf.org.
Judge Ilana Diamond Rovner
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Chicago, IL
Editor’s note: Judge Rovner forwarded the beautiful eulogy given
by their son, Max, at the funeral on Dec. 1. In it, Max recalls
many fond memories of his father’s love and humor, and his
commitment to family. One of the funnier anecdotes relives the way
his parents decided to marry: “When they met, they both lived in
the Washington, DC, area, about seven miles apart. On their second
date, my father said, ‘This commute is killing me. Why don’t we just
get married?’ My mother said, ‘What a great idea,’ and four weeks
later, their nearly 47-year adventure began.”
Privileged to contribute
It is my privilege to contribute to Cleveland Clinic’s Today’s
Innovations – Tomorrow’s Health Care campaign and to have
completed my fellowship in cardiology 60 years ago. William
L. “Bill” Proudfit, MD (IM’43), remains a close friend after I left
for additional post-doctoral training at Michigan and Oklahoma.
I accepted a position as Director of Cardiology and Medical
Director at the Geisinger Health System and Health Plan.
Now a semi-retiree, I have continued to contribute at Penn State
University and Lock Haven University, teaching Applied Physiology.
It has been a great experience.
Charles A. Laubach Jr., MD (IM’50)
Danville, PA
The center’s shiny metal exterior, put
together with 550 pieces like a puzzle,
was designed by Mr. Gehry in Germany,
fabricated in China and shipped from
a Los Angeles port to Las Vegas. Each
piece weighs between 2,000 and
8,000 pounds.
Editor’s Note: The Charles Laubach Visiting Professor program was
established in 2003, to honor Dr. Laubach, Founder of the Geisinger
Cardiology Department and its first catherization laboratory. The
program brings internationally known cardiology experts to Danville,
PA. The Geisinger Research timeline says that, in 1966, the first
U.S. National Institutes of Health grant was awarded to Charles A.
Laubach, MD, for his Coronary Drug Project.
www.clevelandclinic.org/alumniconnection
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Neurology Representative on Alumni Board
Enjoys Maintaining Ties
For Steven Benedict, MD (N’01, NEMG’02), joining a
private neurology practice in the Sandusky and Bellevue area
while maintaining close ties to Cleveland Clinic has been an
opportunity to participate in the best of both worlds.
His practice, Advanced Neurologic Associates, includes
two fellow Cleveland Clinic alumni, Brendan W. Bauer,
MD (N’02), and Michael J. Leslie, MD (N’00), which he
says makes for an excellent meeting of the minds.
Steven
Benedict, MD
“We trained at the same place under the same people, and
we have the same sort of approach and philosophy about
patient care,” he says. “It definitely makes hospital coverage
easier because we instinctively know where each other is
coming from.”
“It has been a mutually beneficial environment, as we have
been able to have a lot of influence on the environment and
thinking in this area, while sending patients we can’t or
shouldn’t treat to Cleveland Clinic,” he says. “We really enjoy
staying connected, from a patient care standpoint, and also
staying in contact with friends and colleagues.”
The practice was founded in 1982 by Dr. Bauer’s father,
William Bauer, MD, PhD, now 74, and he continues to
conduct research and see patients. The practice is rounded
out by Nicole Danner, DO, who joined the group after
completing her residency in Dayton in 2005.
Dr. Benedict, who serves as the Cleveland Clinic Alumni
Society Neurology Specialty Director, says he was attracted
to the practice because it serves a big geographic area that
needed more neurological care and was receptive to their
input, but is close
enough to Cleveland
Learn more about Advanced Neurological
Clinic that referring
Associates by visiting their web site at
complex cases or
second opinions
http://www.advneuroassoc.com/.
is simple.
His practice has been able to influence some changes in
his region, such as stroke certification of two hospitals they
serve and building renovations or additions at several others
for which his group provided input on decisions such as
purchases of diagnostic equipment.
Brendan W.
Bauer, MD
Michael J.
Leslie, MD
Nicole Danner,
DO
Cases that Advanced Neurologic Associates sends to Cleveland include patients who need epilepsy surgery or access
to a neurology intensive care unit. However, the practice
offers strong expertise in areas such as neurophysiology,
electromyography, neuromuscular disease, vascular neurology,
therapeutic Botox injections, stroke and sleep disorders.
“We really emphasize that patients from our area who need
any type of neurology care can come to us first, and we will
make sure that they get what they need,” Dr. Benedict says.
“This has been a great opportunity to have a collegial
practice among peers of about the same age and similar
mindset but with access to an excellent tertiary care center
nearby,” he adds. “That is not an opportunity you always
have in private practice.”
Dr. Danner agrees, though she did not train at Cleveland
Clinic. “The staff on the main campus is always so friendly
and respectful, and they always make me feel welcome, too.
We don’t hesitate to refer to them, and they always send
patients back when they are done.”
Cleveland Clinic, Elsevier Join to Offer Point-of-Care CME Credit
Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education
has teamed up with Elsevier to provide easy
point-of-care CME credit to users of MD Consult
and First Consult.
Users of First Consult, which provides access
to information on evaluation, diagnosis, clinical
management, prognosis and prevention, and
MD Consult, a clinical reference tool used by
more than 2,000 healthcare organizations and
95 percent of all U.S. medical schools, will
earn Point-Of-Care CME Credit as they perform
searches and access relevant content to answer
patient-care questions.
“Within the daily workflow, as they use clinical
content to support diagnosis and treatment,
physicians will be able to click a button and
receive CME accredited by one of the world’s
leading healthcare institutions,” says Randy
Charles, Managing Director, Global Clinical
Reference, Elsevier.
After performing a search and finding the answer, physicians will be able to click on “Request
CME” and complete a short form from the
Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education.
They can earn 0.5 American Medical Association
PRA (Physician’s Recognition Award) Category 1
Credit(s)™ for each search conducted through
MD Consult and First Consult.
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No Bull, Doctors Join Cattle Business
Raising cattle is sort of a family business for John Bergfeld,
MD (GL1’65, S’67, ORS’70). He and his cousin Henry grew
up on a farm together, but one went to medical school and
the other to an agricultural college.
The cousins today own Pine Hill Farm, with about 60
head of cattle in Summitville, Ohio, primarily managed
by Henry, who has made a successful career of ranching.
They recently expanded the definition of “family business”
to include some of Dr. Bergfeld’s colleagues from the
Warthog Society, a collegial group of about 70 physicians
who completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine in Cleveland
Clinic’s Orthopaedics Department.
At a Warthog Society meeting in May 2009, Dr. Bergfeld,
who is Director of the Operating Room and Senior Surgeon,
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Cleveland Clinic, was
showing off photos of a prize cow and her calf that he had
for sale and somewhat jokingly asked if anyone wanted to
invest in it. To his surprise, Richard Edelson, MD (SM’94), of
Portland, OR, said yes. Before it was all said and done,
the Warthog Cattle Company was formed, with eight Warthog
partners sharing ownership of the cow with Dr. Bergfeld.
Since then, the Warthog Cattle Company has purchased a
second cow and both had calves this spring. So the company
has expanded to two cows, two heifer calves and one bull
calf, for a total of five animals.
“The animals live on our farm. We charge them a
management fee, but they own it,” says Dr. Bergfeld.
John Bergfeld, MD, (at left) and his cousin Henry Bergfeld own Pine
Hill Farm in Summitville, Ohio. They recently let several Cleveland
Clinic alumni invest in one of their cows, and the business venture
already is growing.
(marbling), physical appearance and mother’s history of milk
production and progeny performance.
Dr. Edelson says he and his fellow Warthog investors were
largely motivated by a desire to honor their collective mentor.
“We agreed in our incorporation documents that half of all
our earnings go back to Cleveland Clinic in (Dr. Bergfeld’s)
name to fund sports medicine education,” he says. “We
hope this can grow into a good-sized business to benefit
Cleveland Clinic. We definitely didn’t go into this to make
money as individuals.”
He stresses that this is a serious business for the Warthogs,
not mere fodder for beef jokes at future cocktail parties.
“We have only premium Angus Seed Stock cows that are
valuable breeders,” he says. “We sell them to breeders that
raise calves for eventually going to the slaughterhouse. If
we get a cow of particularly high quality, we will fertilize her,
then flush her eggs and implant them in surrogate cows.
Sometimes we can get six or seven calves at a time from
one really good mother.”
He describes Dr. Bergfeld as a “founding father” of sports
medicine in the United States who has held national and
international leadership positions in the field. “We wanted to
give back to him and Sports Medicine in general,” he says.
Calves can fetch anywhere from $4,000 to $20,000,
depending on variables such as their weight, fat distribution
The Warthog Cattle Company investors live across the
United States: Charles Gatt, MD (SM’95), of Brunswick,
NJ; William Raasch, MD (SM’92), of Milwaukee; Sheldon
Cohn, MD (SM’88), of Norfolk, VA; Steve Carlow, MD
(SM’86), of Groton, CT; Jason Koh, MD (SM’00), of
Wilmette, IL; Chris Rothrock, MD (SM’03), of St. Louis,
MO; Robert Sotta, MD (SM’88), of Lake Oswego, OR;
and Drs. Edelson and Bergfeld.
He readily admits that he and his fellow investors went into
this venture without knowledge of livestock and, in fact, have
never met their prize bovine but have seen photos and were
given a standing invitation to visit the farm anytime.
“It’s been kind of fun to do this together,” Dr. Bergfeld says.
“They used to make fun of me, but I make money on my
cows, and I can always eat them if business doesn’t go well.”
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FISCAL FITNESS
Son Creates Orthopaedic Fund to Honor Father
The Avrum I. Froimson, MD, Fund for Orthopaedic Research and Education, established by Dr.
Froimson’s son, Mark Froimson, MD, MBA, to honor his father, is designed to foster innovation
and development of improved techniques in musculoskeletal surgery and help support training
of surgeons.
“These efforts will result in the development of better surgical techniques, allowing us to
achieve better outcomes for patients who need joint reconstruction of the hip and knee,” says
the younger Dr. Froimson, who is the Quality Review Officer for Cleveland Clinic’s Orthopaedic
& Rheumatologic Institute. “Because of the high volume of patients we treat and the innovative
research performed at Cleveland Clinic, this fund will touch thousands of people afflicted with
musculoskeletal disease, not only in Cleveland, but all over the world.”
Dr. Avrum Froimson, whose career spans 48 years, is a member of Cleveland Clinic’s
consulting staff and the Orthopaedic Surgery staff at Cleveland Clinic’s Beachwood Family
Health and Surgery Center. He is a national leader in orthopaedic and hand surgery and
is known for inventing the Froimson Tennis Elbow Support, used worldwide. He has made
substantial contributions in his field for treating hand and elbow arthritis, nerve compression,
sports injuries, limb lengthening, and hip fracture and replacement. A Clinical Professor of
Orthopaedic Surgery at Case Western Reserve University, he has invented and published on
novel surgical procedures for thumb arthritis, trigger finger (in which a finger or thumb catches
in a bent position), biceps tendon rupture, elbow arthritis and wrist tendonitis.
Dr. Mark Froimson says he established the fund to honor his father’s distinguished career and
create a lasting legacy in his name.
“Philanthropy is essential to allowing us to pursue our mission of improving the care we
deliver,” he says. “My father’s career serves as a model of commitment to the best we have to
offer, to constantly searching for better ways and to continuously sharing these developments
by teaching and training our colleagues and those who follow.”
Avrum I. Froimson, MD
Mark Froimson, MD
To make a gift supporting the Avrum I. Froimson, MD, Fund for Orthopaedic Research and
Education, the Orthopaedic & Rheumatologic Institute or any area of Cleveland Clinic, visit
iSupport, our secure online giving site, or call Lois Sumegi, Development Officer, Institutional
Relations and Development, at 216.444.6534.
Gift Annuity Rates Are Going Up!
For the first time in seven years, gift annuity rates are going up. With a charitable gift annuity, you
can secure guaranteed income for life for you or a loved one while supporting Cleveland Clinic. You
also can take a charitable deduction this year, and each payment you will receive is partially tax-free.
To learn more, or to learn the rate applicable to your situation, please contact a member of Cleveland
Clinic’s gift planning team of professionals at 216.444.1245 or giftplanning@ccf.org.
Sample Gift Annuity Rates
Single Life
Two Lives
Age 65
5.5%
Age 65 and 68
5.2%
Age 75
6.4%
Age 75 and 82
6.0%
Age 85
8.1%
Age 82 and 85
6.8%
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fr o m t h e nati o n ’ s ca p ital
Healthcare Reform –
The Saga Continues
By Dan Nickelson
Former Director of Government Affairs, Cleveland Clinic
Typically, when legislation passes, attention turns to implementation
issues. With healthcare reform, these issues appear to be as diverse and
numerous as the stars in the night sky. This reform legislation was no
ordinary feat, and a number of significant challenges remain to its core
purpose – providing health insurance coverage to almost all Americans.
William M. Michener, MD, retired pediatric
gastroenterologist, Emeritus Chairman of the
Division of Education and former Medical
Director for the Alumni Association, now of
Naples, FL, is spending his well-earned free
time painting. He recently sent the Office of
Alumni Relations an original artwork in one of
his favorite Southwestern themes.
At this point, 20 states, all but one Republican-dominated, have filed suit
to block implementation of the individual mandate and/or the significant
expansion to Medicaid. (Ironically, the individual mandate was a concept
advocated by Republican leadership during the 1990s.) The core of
the opposition is that the federal government does not have the
constitutional right to require individuals to buy health insurance. The
counter-argument likely will rest on the government’s authority to regulate
interstate commerce, which has been upheld by the courts since the late
1930s, and the government’s authority to promote the general welfare.
Given the high stakes, the cases will end up in the Supreme Court.
The argument against federal mandates on Medicaid is not a strong
one – the federal government has mandated innumerable Medicaid
policies over the years.
But the courts will decide. As the individual mandate does not go into
effect for several years, the first rebuttal is that a person cannot bring a
case until they are actually affected. Expect these conflicts to start going
through the judicial process in the coming months and years.
Then, there is the argument for outright repeal. This will be a political issue
in the fall campaigns. Given the anti-incumbent sentiment, there are likely
major changes coming in both the House and Senate. However, even if the
Republicans should attain majorities in either or both bodies, repeal is highly
unlikely because the president has veto power over any such legislation.
Republicans would need two-thirds majorities to override that, which no
one is predicting they will have.
In the meantime, implementation will proceed. In terms of healthcare
financing and delivery, Medicare will be the experimental host. There will
be increased emphasis on evidence-based medicine and better collaboration
in care delivery. Hospital-physician integration is likely to continue to grow
and models of full integration, such as Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic,
will be highlighted.
There also will be increased critical scrutiny, from insurance companies that
distrust increased integration as anti-competitive and from many physicians
who do not wish to give up their organizational and practice autonomy.
Mr. Nickelson, who can be reached at dnickelson921@comcast.net, will
be one of the speakers at Cleveland Clinic’s Alumni Reunion in Las Vegas
in September. See cover story for details about this exciting event.
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Campus Clips
The Board of Governors announced changes in the leadership
of the Digestive Disease Institute (DDI) on March 29. After
more than 35 years of leadership in Colorectal Surgery and
the DDI, Victor W. Fazio, MD (S’73, CRS’74), will be stepping
down as Chair of the Institute. Robert Wyllie, MD, Chair of
the Pediatric Institute and Children’s Hospital, will serve as
interim chair. As part of the change, Arthur J. McCullough,
Jr, MD (GL-1’75, IM’77), is stepping down as Chair of
Gastroenterology and Hepatology. John J. Vargo, MD, MPH
(GE’90), will be interim chair of the department.
Drs. Fazio and McCullough will continue to serve as members of the professional staff. Dr. Fazio has been appointed
Physician Director to Institutional Relations and Development.
He has a long history of modeling physician leadership in
philanthropy, leading the efforts of the DDI campaign that
wrapped up in 2001, launching Cleveland Clinic’s second
volunteer philanthropic leadership board and securing at least
nine endowed chairs that were awarded to his colleagues.
Several job changes were enacted April 26 to lead the
continued integration of the Cleveland Clinic Health
System hospitals to ensure high-quality patient care and
the development of partnerships that will position Cleveland
Clinic for the future. “As healthcare reform takes shape,
Cleveland Clinic is integrating our hospitals to design a
healthcare system that delivers the highest-quality care at
the greatest value to our patients,” says Delos M. “Toby”
Cosgrove, MD, CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic.
David Bronson, MD, was named President of Cleveland
Clinic Regional Hospitals. Dr. Bronson will lead operations
at the nine regional hospitals in Northeast Ohio (Euclid,
Fairview, Hillcrest, Huron, Lakewood, Lutheran, Marymount,
Medina and South Pointe hospitals, and affiliate Ashtabula
County Medical Center) and work to standardize quality and
safety. The position was formerly held by Fred DeGrandis,
who now will focus on strengthening Cleveland Clinic’s
relationships with community physicians and hospitals
throughout Ohio and beyond.
Dr. Bronson, who previously was Chairman of the Medicine
Institute, has served on Cleveland Clinic’s Board of Governors,
Board of Trustees and the Executive Management Team. He
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Victor W. Fazio, MD: A Prestigious Career
During his 35 years of extraordinary leadership and outstanding contributions
to Cleveland Clinic, Victor Fazio, MD, has pioneered innovative techniques that
have changed the practice of colorectal surgery worldwide. Dr. Fazio’s legacy of
contributions to the field of digestive health are overshadowed by his commitment to innovation, teamwork and patient care.
“Vic has been an amazing asset to Cleveland since he
joined us more than 35 years ago,” says Joseph Hahn,
MD, Chief of Staff. “He is a medical pioneer, an extraordinary leader and has a true compassion for the patients
he serves. We are all privileged to have the opportunity to
work with him and learn from him each day.”
Dr. Fazio is among the most highly regarded colorectal
surgeons in the world and is deeply respected by his
patients and colleagues. A true innovator, he made major
Victor W. Fazio, MD
breakthroughs in colorectal surgery, including pioneering
small bowel strictureplasty, which allowed patients to minimize loss of small
bowel in Crohn’s disease. He was the first to perform coloplasty for rectal
reservoir reconstruction in the United States and the first to produce outcomes data that proved its safety and efficacy. In a landmark event, Dr. Fazio
performed Cleveland Clinic’s 2,000th J pouch, a procedure designed to help
patients avoid colostomies, in 2000.
In January 2008, after serving as Chairman of Colorectal Surgery for 33 years,
Dr. Fazio was named Chairman of the Digestive Disease Institute. That November, Dr. Fazio was honored for his career achievements at the 29th annual
Turnbull Symposium, where it was announced that $13 million in contributions
from friends, former patients, alumni and colleagues had been raised toward a
$20 million project to support and name the Victor W. Fazio, MD, Center for IBD,
and the Victor W. Fazio, MD, Surgical Suites.
“Very few physicians have accomplished as much as Vic has in his career,”
says Feza H. Remzi, MD (S’96, CRS’97), Department Chair of Colorectal
Surgery, at the symposium. “He has elevated a small colorectal surgery unit
into one of the best departments in the world. He has won the affection of his
patients and the respect of his colleagues with an approach that shows humility
and modesty, and always puts the well-being of his patients ahead of everything. I cannot describe a better chairman, mentor and friend than Victor Fazio.”
Dr. Fazio also holds the Rupert B. Turnbull, MD, Chair in Colorectal Surgery, an
award bestowed on him in 1995. In 2000, Dr. Fazio was the first recipient of
Cleveland Clinic’s Master Clinician Award. He also was the inaugural recipient
of the Alfred and Norma Lerner Humanitarian Award in 2002, an honor awarded
by Cleveland Clinic to physicians who exemplify the highest values of the
medical profession. His highest honor has been the Order of Australia (AO),
bestowed by the Australian Government for his pioneering work in IBD.
Sandra S. Stranscak, Senior Director of Alumni Relations, says that Dr. Fazio
has been an outstanding champion of maintaining lifelong relationships with
the hundreds of residents and fellows who consider themselves honored to
have trained under him.
Alumni are invited to recognize Dr. Fazio by sending letters or e-mails to
the Office of Alumni Relations, which will forward them to Dr. Fazio. Write
to Cleveland Clinic Alumni Relations, 9500 Euclid Ave. – DV1, Cleveland, OH
44195 or alumni@ccf.org.
www.clevelandclinic.org/alumniconnections
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Campus Clips
NEWS FLASH!
Our organization has launched a mobile version of ClevelandClinic.org at
m.ClevelandClinic.org to give alumni, patients and visitors with mobile
phones easy access to finding doctors and information about the Cleveland
Clinic health system.
The mobile site offers a simple-to-use interface for streamlined access to
information. It allows users to:
• Search for doctors and specialists by name, location, clinical institute or
clinical department.
• Find locations, parking, hours of operation, directions and phone numbers
for 80 facilities that provide Cleveland Clinic services, including regional,
national and international locations.
• Access a systemwide phone directory, as well as listings of amenities,
including free shuttle buses and restaurants.
The new mobile website, accessed at http://m.ClevelandClinic.org, is
designed to work on web-enabled phones, including Blackberry, iPhone,
Droid and Windows Mobile.
also is Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner
College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
He is a member of the Board of Regents of the American
College of Physicians and of the Board of Commissioners of
the Joint Commission and also serves as Chairman, Board
of Directors of the American Medical Group Association. He
joined Cleveland Clinic in 1992 and led the multisite regional
practices, including operations in Canada, from 1995-2008.
Dr. Bronson received his medical degree from the University
of Vermont and completed residencies in internal medicine
at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Vermont,
where he was chief resident.
He is replacing Fred DeGrandis, who was named Chairman
of the Cleveland Clinic Community Physician Partnership
(CPP) and Quality Alliance. Mr. DeGrandis will take leadership of working with doctors and hospitals outside Cleveland
Clinic’s health system. CPP is the largest physician organization in Northeast Ohio and supports community physicians
and practitioners in their efforts to provide the best patient
care. The Quality Alliance is an initiative that enables
independent physicians and Cleveland Clinic-employed
physicians to work more closely to ensure safe, efficient,
patient-centered care. He also will represent Cleveland Clinic
on trustee boards at the regional hospitals and will serve as
a leader on the Northern Ohio Regional Trauma Network.
Brian Harte, MD, has been named Interim Chair of the
Medicine Institute. Dr. Harte joined Cleveland Clinic in 2004
and is Chair of the Department of Hospital Medicine and
Medical Director of Enterprise Business Intelligence. He also
is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic
Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
As Medical Director of Enterprise Business Intelligence, Dr.
Harte has been providing clinical leadership to the Business
Intelligence team within the Division of Medical Operations in
its mission to develop rapid-cycle, transparent operational and
quality reporting and management tools across the Cleveland
Clinic enterprise.
David L. Brown, MD, has been named Interim Chair of the
Emergency Services Institute. He will remain Chair of the
Anesthesiology Institute while serving in this position. The role
of Interim Chair of the Emergency Services Institute previously
was held by Dr. Bronson.
Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic in 2008, Dr. Brown
was Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and
Pain Medicine at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center; Professor and Chair of the Department of
Anesthesiology at the University of Iowa; Section Head of
Orthopedic Anesthesia at Mayo Clinic-Rochester; and Chief
of the Department of Anesthesiology at the Virginia Mason
Medical Center in Seattle. Dr. Brown also served as a Flight
Surgeon for the United States Air Force Medical Corps for
seven years. He is a Professor of Anesthesiology at Cleveland
Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve
University, a member of the Cleveland Clinic Strategic Council
and, nationally, is on the Board of Directors of the American
Board of Anesthesiology.
Armando L. Chardiet has been named Chairman of
Institutional Relations and Development. Responsible for
leading all philanthropic initiatives and capital campaigns
for the health system, Mr. Chardiet brings deep international
experience and extensive development achievements to
Cleveland Clinic.
In addition to his role as Chairman of Institutional Relations
and Development, he will be Executive Director of Today’s
Innovations, Tomorrow’s Healthcare: Campaign for Cleveland
Clinic, a five-year philanthropic campaign to raise $1.25
billion. Cleveland Clinic is one of the first health systems in
the country to embark on such a campaign. The funds support
innovative patient care, basic and clinical research, medical
and patient education, and physical expansion.
Mr. Chardiet has significant expertise in developing, launching
and stewarding major philanthropic campaigns across health
systems. Under his leadership, the University of Pennsylvania
Medical School doubled its annual fundraising numbers during
the course of the Making History: The Campaign for Penn
campaign.
Cleveland Clinic has received a $5.4 million federal grant to
continue multiple sclerosis research that it started in 1999.
The National Institutes of Health grant will fund the research
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Richard M. Ransahoff, MD
through 2014. Richard M. Ransohoff, MD
(N’84), Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Center
for Neuroinflammation Research, has been
leading the project, focusing on identifying the
connection between inflammation and tissue
injury in the central nervous system of people
with multiple sclerosis.
Cleveland Clinic researchers have been awarded a $9.2
million, five-year grant by the National Institutes of Health
to continue their study of the role of inflammation in heart
disease. Stanley L. Hazen, MD, PhD, Section Head of
Preventive Cardiology at Cleveland Clinic and a staff member
in Lerner Research Institute’s Department of Cell Biology, is the
principle investigator of the research receiving the award from
the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Dr. Hazen and
his colleagues hope to develop a deeper understanding of the
mechanisms linking inflammation to cardiovascular disease
and its consequences. The grant is a continuation of past NIH
funding. Already, the researchers have discovered that blood
levels of an enzyme called myeloperoxidase, or MPO, can
identify people at risk of heart attack. They also developed a
diagnostic test for MPO that has been approved by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration and is used worldwide.
Elaine Husni, MD, MPH, Vice Chair of Rheumatology
and Director of the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Center
at Cleveland Clinic, received a $200,000 grant from the
National Psoriasis Foundation. She will use the two-year
grant to study psoriatic arthritis and the evidence that psoriatic
arthritis patients are at a greater risk for heart disease. She
hopes to discover biomarkers that would detect these risks
earlier in psoriatic arthritis patients.
Abby Abelson, MD, Rheumatologic and Immunologic Disease, and Tracy L. Hull, MD (CRS’92, CFCRS’93), Colorectal
Surgery, received the Kaiser Award for Outstanding Medical
Educator in the areas of pre-clinical and clinical, respectively.
Lerner College of Medicine students selected the recipients
based on their exceptional contributions to student learning
and professional development.
Guy Chisolm, PhD, was named Faculty of the Year by the
administrative staff in the Lerner College of Medicine. Dr.
Chisolm is active on the Curriculum Steering Council, the
Medical Student Promotion and Review Committee and the
Research Education Committee, and he co-chairs the Basic
Science Education Committee.
Linda Graham, MD, Vascular Surgery, is no stranger to
running to help where needed. While volunteering in Mississippi and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Graham
met volunteers from International Medical Alliance and
began taking medical mission trips with the organization to
the Dominican Republic near the Haitian border. When the
earthquake hit Port Au Prince, Haiti, in January, she quickly
made plans to return to the clinic. On the first day there,
her group visited Port Au Prince to help triage patients and
bring them to the clinic in the Dominican Republic. Most of
her work at the clinic, an outpatient facility which housed as
many as 500 inpatients after the earthquake, was surgery,
including amputations and wound debridements. Dr. Graham
helped countless patients and even witnessed three births.
She says that the grace and resilience of the Haitian people is
remarkable and that the biggest need is monetary donations. If
you would like to contribute to International Medical Alliance,
visit http://www.imaonline.org/.
Kudos also to Paul Kempen, MD, General Anesthesiology,
who was inspired to respond to January’s Haitian earthquake
by his motto, “The world has been good to me; it’s time to
pay it back.” He enlisted as a provider with Project HOPE,
the humanitarian agency he worked with in 2007 when he
traveled aboard the USNS Comfort for a medical mission in
Ecuador, Colombia and Haiti. On Feb. 17, a little over a month
after the earthquake, Dr. Kempen arrived aboard the Comfort
with the second wave of volunteers. The Comfort served as
the premiere hospital facility in Haiti, seeing patients with the
most complex cases. Although Dr. Kempen was on dry land
only during transfer to and from the airport and the ship, he
says it was easy to see both the overwhelming devastation
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Campus Clips
and the global response to the crisis. “I’d look out and see
ships from all over the world stationed in the harbor to help,
knowing the city was in ruins in the distance,” he says.
Kudos also to Mark Foglietti, DO, Grant Hunter, DO, Brian
Kessler, DO, Marc Polecritti, DO, and Megan Rodgers, DO,
of South Pointe Hospital. The physicians/residents spent
eight days in Haiti providing medical care to survivors, in
clinics and elsewhere.
Editor’s Note: The Office of Alumni Relations realizes
that many of our alumni participate in medical missions
throughout the world – and, indeed, have written about
some of you. We’d like to know more about the depth and
breadth of alumni involvement and maybe even share YOUR
stories with fellow alumni, as well. Let us know where you are
making extraordinary contributions to global healthcare – and
if you’d be willing to share your story! We’d love to hear from
you. Write us at alumni@ccf.org or call 800.444.3664.
Joseph F. “Joe” Hahn, MD, Cleveland Clinic Chief of Staff,
received two honors recently. On April 23, he was presented
with the Distinguished Service Award by the Academy of
Medicine of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio at its annual
meeting at the Ritz-Carlton. On May 2, he was honored at the
Golden Age Center of Greater Cleveland gala, where he was
recognized for Lifetime Achievement in medicine.
Barbara Messinger-Rapport, MD, PhD, Director, Center
for Geriatric Medicine, has been chosen by the Alzheimer’s
Association’s Cleveland Chapter to receive the Jennifer B.
Langston Community Service Award for her advocacy and
role as an active member of the Association’s Professional
Advisory Board.
Charles Modlin Jr., MD, Director, Minority Men’s Health
Center, Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, received
Northwestern University’s first annual Daniel Hale Williams
Award for Meritorious Service to Underserved Communities.
Seven years ago, Dr. Modlin started the Minority Men’s Health
Fair, which now draws more than 2,000 participants annually.
Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, Director of Plastic Surgery
Research and Head of microsurgery training at Cleveland
Clinic, was appointed to the scientific advisory board of
Sanuwave Health Inc., a Georgia-based emerging medical
technology company focused on the development and
commercialization of non-invasive, biological response
activating devices in the regenerative medicine area.
Randall Starling, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Kaufman Center
for Heart Failure, and Vice Chairman, Cardiovascular Medicine,
has been elected to the United Network for Organ Sharing
(UNOS) and Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
(OPTN) Board of Directors. He will serve as Heart Transplant
Representative for a two-year term beginning in June.
The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case
Western Reserve University has received a $2 million federal
grant to upgrade research labs. The grant from the National
Center for Research Resources involves stimulus money and
will enable the Lerner College to renovate labs and build new
cancer research space.
Cosgrove Optimistic About Cleveland Clinic’s Future, Growth
Cleveland Clinic earned national attention in 2009
for medical breakthroughs, outstanding research,
wellness programs and its integrated healthcare
delivery system. The year brought unprecedented
media attention from the first near-total face transplant press conference and President Obama’s visit
to learn about our healthcare model and electronic
medical records.
In his annual State of the Clinic address on Feb. 25,
Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove, MD, gave the
staff many other reasons for optimism and pride.
“There is high demand for our services. We’re
innovating and adopting new technology. We’re
measuring quality, monitoring safety, and expanding
our data infrastructure,” he said in the address that
was broadcast to all facilities.
“Outcomes are improving. Patient satisfaction is
up. New facilities and renovations are under way at
all our locations. Working with partners across the
United States and around the world, Cleveland Clinic
is building the integrated healthcare delivery system
of the future.”
He outlined plans to spent $848 million on renovations and construction through the health system
this year, including renovations to patient floors, the
intensive care unit and the Crile building on the main
campus.“By the end of the year, all of this campus’
clinical and outpatient facilities will be renewed,” Dr.
Cosgrove said.
leadership and a Department of Regional Pathology
was created.
He noted that “Patients First” is Cleveland Clinic’s
mantra, and survey results show improvement in
meeting patient expectations.
“Cleveland Clinic has a tradition of surpassing itself
year after year. The achievements of 2009 have
enlarged our possibilities for 2010. With the skill of
our doctors and the support of our friends, we will
work hard to deserve the confidence of those who
place their trust in our care,” he concluded.
He noted that Cleveland Clinic found ways to reduce
expenses without compromising patient care.
On the system level, the progressive alignment of
Cleveland Clinic’s many parts into a fully integrated
healthcare delivery network continued. The institute
model was translated to the regional hospital
setting. Nursing functions were unified under single
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To read Cleveland Clinic’s 2009 annual
report, go to http://my.clevelandclinic.org/
p2/digital-annual-report.aspx.
Cleveland Clinic and AUB Establish Historic Partnership
Cleveland Clinic and the American University of Beirut have
signed an historic agreement to collaborate on developing a
large-scale continuing medical education initiative in Beirut.
The agreement enables the University to develop CME
programs that will be accredited for AMA PRA Category
1 Credit™. Physicians practicing in Lebanon who also
have licenses to practice medicine in the United States
will find it easier to take the courses required to keep their
licenses current.
The partnership is an extension of an existing working
relationship between the two organizations. The AUB and
Cleveland Clinic have collaborated for more than a decade
in providing CME accreditation for many portions of the
Middle East Medical Assembly.
“Now, a much more ambitious collaboration is the
establishment of a formal CME office with AUB that will
develop many additional CME programs and that will
adhere to the highest standards set by the Accreditation
Council for Continuing Medical Education,” says William
D. Carey, MD, Director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for
Continuing Education.
The Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education has
emerged as one of world’s largest academic providers of
continuing medical education. The Center grants nearly
120,000 CME certificates each year and conducts
programs on five continents.
The American University of Beirut was founded in 1866
and its medical school in 1867. Some Cleveland Clinic
staff physicians received their training through the AUB and
some AUB graduates received advanced training at Cleveland
Clinic before returning to Lebanon to practice medicine.
Stranscak
to building a strong alumni organization have kept her highly engaged and
motivated over the years.
to Sigmund Freud, the father of selfdiscovery, who said, “Being entirely
honest with oneself is the best effort
a human being can make.” And being
honest meant acknowledging her
growing desire to spend more time
with her own close-knit family.
“I’ve got a list a mile long of things
I want to do. I want to spend more
time with my partner, my mother,
my siblings and friends while I still
have my health and wits about me,”
she quips. “But I certainly don’t
view my retirement as an end to my
Cleveland Clinic relationships. I have
made many enduring friendships along
the way and value their support and
encouragement as I move into the next
phase of my life.”
Stranscak joined Cleveland Clinic
as a nurse recruiter. From 1985
to 1987, she took on the role of
coordinating alumni activities and
reunions. Her career made several
turns, landing her in public relations
as a physician liaison. In 1990, she
resumed her previous alumni-related
responsibilities and much more as she
became the first full-time Alumni Affairs
manager. Her advocacy for the loosely
connected group and her commitment
She knew that communication was
key to the organization’s success, so
she worked closely with department
contacts throughout Cleveland Clinic
to identify opportunities for alumni to
become more involved. She launched
Cleveland Clinic Alumni Connection
to enable graduates to keep up with
each other. The magazine now reaches
more than 10,000 alumni throughout
the world. And she established a
robust Alumni Board of Directors, who
meet regularly to plan and coordinate
alumni activities. With the opening
of the Lerner College of Medicine
in 2005, Stranscak embraced the
incoming group of future alumni,
welcoming representation on the
board from the school.
Under her leadership, the Alumni
Association has grown into a dynamic
force of Cleveland Clinic ambassadors
representing every state in the union
and 70 foreign countries.
“Sandy has done an outstanding job
of managing the Cleveland Clinic
Alumni Association and uniting our
alumni group by keeping up contacts
and connections, by assisting and
developing reunions, and through
developing awards programs to honor
residents in training and alumni
who have contributed in outstanding
service to either the Clinic or to their
profession,” says Robert Hermann,
MD, retired Chairman of General
Surgery and Medical Director of Alumni
Affairs. “We will sorely miss her
enthusiasm and leadership, and I’m
sure we’ll continue to seek her consult
for many years to come.”
Stranscak says she has found the
work rewarding and has been enriched
by the many relationships and experiences it has afforded her over the
years. But she knows her “fantastic
Alumni Relations team” will continue
the work she has directed, including
Dr. Hermann; Development Director
Lois Sumegi; Assistant Alumni
Relations Director Marilyn Bryce
McCoy; and Administrative Assistant
Ellie Biehl.
Stranscak hopes her Alumni
Association friends will keep in touch
and welcomes emails to sstranscak@
sbcglobal.net, although she won’t be
checking it every day anymore!
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Cleveland Clinic
Lerner College of
Medicine Class of
2010 Match Results
Kevin Blaine
Ryan Doan
Residency:
Anesthesiology at
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
Undergraduate:
BS, University of
Oregon, 2003
Residency: Physical
Medicine & Rehabilitation at Stanford
University, Stanford, CA
Undergraduate:
BS, University of
California – Berkeley,
2001
Patrick Blake
Rao Fu
Residency:
Dermatology at
University of Texas
Southwestern, Dallas
Undergraduate:
BA, Ohio Wesleyan
University, 2005
Residency:
Pathology at BarnesJewish Hospital,
St. Louis, MO
Undergraduate:
BS, University of
Minnesota–Twin Cities,
2004
Nirica Borges
Rebecca Ganetzky
Residency:
Pediatrics at University
of Pittsburgh
Undergraduate:
BS, Georgetown
University, 2005
Residency:
Pediatrics/Genetics
at Children’s Hospital
Philadelphia
Undergraduate:
BA, Oberlin College,
2005
Sharmila Basu
Anna Brady
Alida Gertz
Residency:
Internal Medicine at
University of Southern
California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate:
MS, BA, New York
University, 2001
Residency:
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia
Undergraduate:
BS, Case Western
Reserve University, 2005
Residency Deferred –
Research
Undergraduate:
BA, Swarthmore
College, 2003
Lyndsey Benson
Maria Buniel
Stephen Greenfield
Residency:
Obstetrics-Gynecology
at University of Chicago
Undergraduate:
BS, Brown University,
2005
Residency:
Otolaryngology at
Oregon Health & Science
University, Portland
Undergraduate:
BS, Kent State
University, 2000
Residency:
Orthopaedic Surgery
at Hospital for Special
Surgery, New York
Undergraduate:
BS, Duke University,
2005
The Cleveland Clinic Alumni Association congratulates the Lerner College
of Medicine Class of 2010 and its
faculty on a successful Match Day.
The graduates were welcomed into the
worldwide network of Cleveland Clinictrained physicians and scientists at the
Alumni Board of Directors dinner on
April 9, where they were presented with
a gift of a laptop computer case with
the Alumni Association logo.
Twenty-seven Cleveland Clinic students
were matched to prestigious hospitals
throughout the country at this year’s
Match Day. If they are coming to your
town, please welcome them. We
know that you will be proud to meet
any of them!
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Richard Haigler
Lauren Moore
Jacqueline Weissman
Residency:
Orthopaedic Surgery
at Baylor College of
Medicine, Houston
Undergraduate:
BS, Wake Forest
University, 2004
Residency:
Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston
Undergraduate:
BA, Boston University,
2003
Residency:
Pediatric Neurology
at Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore
Undergraduate:
BA, University of
Chicago, 2004
Craig Jarrett
Patricia Scripko
Catherine Weng
Residency:
General Surgery at
Hospital, Boston
Undergraduate:
BS, Bowling Green
State University, 2004
Residency:
Neurology at
Hospital, Boston
Undergraduate:
BS, Bucknell
University, 2005
Residency: Otolaryngology at University
Hospitals/Case Medical
Center, Cleveland
Undergraduate:
BS, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology,
2005
Paul Koch
Jared Wachterman
Robert Wirka
Residency:
Neurological Surgery
at Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Undergraduate:
BA, Yale University,
2001
Residency:
General Surgery at St.
Elizabeth Hospital,
Youngstown, OH
Undergraduate:
BS, Tufts University,
2004
Residency:
University of California,
San Francisco
Undergraduate:
BS, University of
Wisconsin, 2004
David Ly
Samuel Wedes
Jun Xu
Residency:
Radiation Oncology
at University of Utah,
Salt Lake City
Undergraduate:
BS, University of
California – Los
Angeles, 2005
Residency:
Psychiatry at University
of Pittsburgh
Undergraduate:
BS, University of
Michigan – Ann Arbor,
2005
Residency:
Vascular Surgery at
University of Pittsburgh
Undergraduate:
BS, University of
Maryland – Baltimore,
2005
Jennifer Monti
Shoshana Weiner
Cathryn Zhang
Residency:
Internal Medicine
at Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore
Undergraduate:
BA, Harvard University,
2002
Residency:
Internal Medicine
at Cleveland Clinic,
Cleveland
Undergraduate:
BS, Columbia
University, 2004
Residency:
University of Vermont,
Burlington
Undergraduate:
BS, Stanford University,
2005
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CALENDAR
Selected Live Cleveland Clinic
Continuing Medical Education Courses
and Other Educational Events
Center for Continuing Education
For current information on these events, as well as CME medical publications, and
to register for free e-mail updates and more, visit: www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/
and for Cleveland Clinic in Florida CME, see: www.ccf.org/florida/cme
The Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education is responsible for one of the
largest and most diverse CME programs anywhere in the United States. Check the
Website for the latest course announcement information.
The Center for Continuing Education
announces myCME: A free service that
helps you organize your learning and allows
you to keep an electronic file cabinet of CME
credits from all providers.
September
Monthly Newsflash: Stay informed of all the
available live and online CME opportunities
by signing up for our monthly newsflash:
4–5 3
8th Annual Pediatric Neurology
Update Seminar,Executive Caterers
at Landerhaven, Mayfield Hts., OH
August 2010
6–8
11
2010 Neurology Update – A
Comprehensive Review for the
Clinician, Ritz–Carlton Hotel,
Washington, DC
11–13 SOLACI– XVI Congress of the Latin
American Society of Interventional
Cardiology, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
13–14 Epilepsy Surgery: A New Beginning
Embassy Suites, Independence,
OH
18–19 Nanomedicine Summit
21–22 21st Century Treatment of
Heart Failure
22–23 Rheumatology Highlights Report
LIVE, featuring Advances in B Cell
Biology, Westin Times Square, New
York, NY
38th Annual Dermatopathology
Self Assessment Workshop
13–14 2010 Diabetes and the Heart
(jointly sponsored with Joslin
Diabetes Center)
Sheraton Hotel, Boston
22–23 2nd International Symposium on
Robotic Kidney and Adrenal Surgery
13–17 2010–2011 Preceptorship in
Cartoid Ultrasound Interpretation
14
Nephrology Update 2010
Renaissance Cleveland Hotel,
Cleveland, OH
15–17 13th Annual Endocrinology and
Metabolism Board Review
International League Against
Epilepsy, Montevideo, Uruguay
10–11 Rheumatology Highlights Report
LIVE, featuring Advances in B
Cell Biology, Renaissance Hotel,
Cleveland, OH
www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/SignMeUp
7–9 Leadership Development for
Women in Health Care Professions
Warrensville Heights, OH
23
Pain Management for Your Practice
Cleveland Clinic Administrative
Campus, Beachwood, OH
29 24th annual Clinic Seminars
Dermatology
30 Spine Care for the Primary Care
Physician, Lutheran Hospital,
Cleveland, OH
13–20 Cardiovascular CT Training
Program
17–24 Cardiovascular CT Training Program
19–20 Lung Summit: Update in
Pulmonary and Critical Care
Medicine
23–25 90 Years of Orthopaedics at the
Cleveland Clinic: Honoring Our
Past and Vision for the Future
November
3–4 Obesity Summit 2010
20 23–24 Heart–Brain Summit 2010
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center
for Brain Health, Las Vegas
5–12 Cardiovascular CT Training
Program
1st International Symposium of
Cardiology, Sao Paulo, Brazil
22–25 11th Annual Intensive Review of
Cardiology
30 – 9/3 16th Annual Pediatric Board
Review Symposium
11–12 Management of Connective Tissue
Disorders and Latest Research:
Bicuspid Valves, Marfan Syndrome,
Loeys-Dietz Syndrome, EhlersDanlos and Related Diseases
24–25 Hot Topics in Healthcare – Alumni
Reunion, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo
Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas
28–10/1 Digestive Disease Institute Week
October
NOTE: All courses are at the InterContinental Hotel & Conference Center on the
Cleveland Clinic campus in Cleveland, OH,
or other Cleveland Clinic facilities, unless
otherwise noted.
1
1–6 13
Blood Management Summit
19
7th Annual Pulmonary
Hypertension Symposium
Urology for the Primary Care
Provider, Cleveland Clinic,
Beachwood, OH
December
2010 Epilepsy Symposia
1–5 www.clevelandclinic.org/alumniconnection
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Survey of Current Issues in
Surgical Anesthesia, The Ritz–
Carlton Golf Resort, Naples, FL
Alumni are entitled to a substantial discount
on CME courses sponsored by the Cleveland
Clinic Center for Continuing Education,
Cleveland, Ohio, and by Continuing Medical
Education of Cleveland Clinic in Florida.
15–20 American College of
Gastroenterology, San Antonio, TX
Additional Contact Information:
16–20 American Society of
Anesthesiologists
San Diego
16–19 American Academy of
Ophthalmology, Chicago
Cleveland, OH: 216.448.0770; Toll-Free
800.238.6750; Fax 216.448.0782
Weston, FL: 954.659.5490; Toll-Free
866.293.7866; Fax 954.659.5491
Alumni Receptions: Alumni gatherings are
planned for many major national medical
meetings. Attendees and local alumni are invited.
For more information, check www.clevelandclinic.
org/education/alumni or contact the Office of
Alumni Affairs at alumni@ccf.org.
September
26–29 American Academy of
Otolaryngology–Head & Neck
Surgery Foundation, Boston
October
Cleveland Clinic
offers online
CME credits to
BMJ readers
The British Medical Journal (BMJ)
has joined forces with Cleveland Clinic
to offer certified continuing medical
education (CME) credits to all of its
readers. The program will start with
modules linked to BMJ research articles
focusing on important and clinically
relevant questions and with findings
that are applicable to a wide crosssection of readers.
21–23 North American Society for
Pediatric, GI, Hepatology &
Nutrition, New Orleans
21–24 Infectious Diseases Society of
America, Vancouver, BC
29–11/2 The Liver Meeting, Boston
31–11/4 American Society for Therapeutic
Radiation & Oncology, San Diego
“Because these are open access, this
allows us to make CME activities
available to all doctors and other
health professionals wherever they are
in the world and whether or not they
subscribe to the BMJ,” explains Steven
Kawczak, Associate Director at the
Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing
Education. “In time, we plan to extend
CME credits to other content on bmj.
com, including clinical reviews, practice
articles and editorials.”
November
7–11
American College of Rheumatology
Atlanta
16–21 American Society of Nephrology
Denver
1–5 American Society of Plastic
Surgeons, Toronto
2–5
American Academy of Pediatrics
San Francisco
3–7
American Epilepsy Society
San Antonio, TX
3–7 American College of Surgeons
Washington, DC
4–7 American Society of Hematology
Orlando
December
Cleveland Clinic’s CME accreditation
will ensure that BMJ CME meets
standards of effective educational
planning and design as well as
independence from commercial
interests.
Readers will be able to claim credit
toward the American Medical
Association Physician’s Recognition
Award (AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™)
for each module they pass. This
involves reading the article online and
completing a set of multiple-choice
questions. Once readers have achieved
an 80 percent pass on the test, they
can claim their credit and Cleveland
Clinic will provide them with a CME
certificate. If they fail the test, they
can retake it until they pass. Cleveland
Clinic will maintain a record of which
modules readers have completed.
Model Student. Laura A. Navarro, a student in the Class of 2013 at the Lerner College of Medicine,
was used in this advertisement at the airport in Sarasota, FL, for the New College of Florida. As the
State of Florida’s legislatively designated “honors college for the liberal arts,” New College is the only
public college or university in the state whose sole mission is to provide an undergraduate education
of the highest caliber to leading students from around the country. To read more about Laura, visit
http://ncf.edu/stories/alum/navarro/story1.
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50s
scrub nurses), please let us know! We also would
like to receive contact information on Mrs. Del
Portzer, CRNA, who may be living in Florida.
Porter F. Crawford, MD (D’51), of Palm Harbor,
FL, writes that he is a retired dermatologist and
“still kicking at 87” – soon to be kicking it up for
his 88th on July 23! He and his wife, Hilda, raised
two children, Amy and Craig, and are enjoying
their grandchildren.
William V. Martinez, MD (S’56, TS’57), of Austin,
TX, called the Office of Alumni Relations to say he
is “alive and well” and was surprised and pleased
to see the photo of the original 1956 Open Heart
Team in the March issue of the Alumni Connection. He is seated in the front row, flanked by Betty
Lou Geary, head scrub nurse and Del Portzer,
CRNA, a tremendous nurse anesthetist. As he
recalls, he scrubbed on the first case, an interatrical-septal defect. In 1977, he had a heart
attack and called Earl K. Shirey, MD (IM’56), to
ask him to catheterize him. He had three-vessel
disease and asked Earl to have someone operate
on him. Floyd (Fred) D. Loop, MD (TS’70), did
a quadruple bypass Sept. 19, 1977. “Some of
the best years of my life were spent at Cleveland
Clinic. I met my wife, Marilyn Heft, one of the
scrub nurses, now married 51 years with seven
wonderful children and 21 grandchildren. The
eldest boy, William Jr., is a cardiac surgeon and
clinical professor of surgery at the University of
Connecticut in Hartford. The years at Cleveland
Clinic were great, working and training with people
who were the finest in their fields. Don Effler was
a great doctor, always looking to the future.” He
has an autographed photo of Dr. Effler that says “I
expect the best from you.”
Editors Note: If anyone can identify any of the
other individuals in that photo (technicians and
of Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine; Tracey
A. Cigan, BBA, Manager of Medical Staff Affairs
at Marymount Hospital; David L. Brown, MD,
Chairman of the Anesthesiology Institute: George
Takla, PhD, Head, Clinical Information Engineering
Section; and Wolf Stapelfeld, MD, Department
Chairman, General Anesthesiology.
Dr. Ramesh Naik forwarded a letter of introduction
prior to his trip. Here are some excerpts:
Born in Surat, Gujarat, India, in 1928, Dr. Naik
was a gentle soul and a good student, helping
his teachers and respecting adults.
Pictured are William and Marilyn Martinez
during their 40th wedding anniversary
celebration, in 1998, with their seven children:
Second row, left to right, Paul, Jim and Susan;
third row, William Jr., William Sr., Marilyn Jr.,
Marilyn Sr., Keith and David.
Ramesh L. Naik, MD (AN’58), and his wife,
Madhu R. Naik, MD, who trained at Marymount
Hospital, along with their daughter, Beena R.
Nayak, MD, MBA, made what they call a “family
journey” back to their roots and the place where
their only child was born 50 years ago this July
– Cleveland. The elder couple traveled from their
home in Gujart, India, and Beena from Virginia,
where she is living while completing the Executive
Leadership Program at the George Washington
University in Washington, DC. The Office of Alumni
Relations arranged for the physician trio to visit
with Aura Lopez, Manager of the Center for International Medical Education; Brian Mandell, MD,
PhD, Director of Scholarly Activities of the Internal
Medicine Residency Program and Editor-in-Chief
From left, Madhu R. Naik, MD, Sandy Stranscak, Senior Director of Alumni Relations at Cleveland
Clinic, Ramesh L. Naik, MD, and Beena R. Nayak, MD, MBA.
In 1951, he completed a Bachelors in Science
with a study in the ancient texts of the foreign
language Pali (official Buddhist language) and,
having been accepted to the Integrated Medicine
course (Allopathy + Ayurveda, a four-year
degree course), excelled at college theater,
where he met his future wife, Dr. Madhu Naik.
They had been raised with the true Indian values
of Mahatma Gandhi when they were in high
school, having been witness to the Independence
struggle and Quit India movement.
They were married in April 1955 and went on to
a residency in obstetrics at Europe’s busiest and
largest hospital at the time, the Rotunda General
Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. In 1956, they set sail
on the HHS Queen Mary for the United States,
following an advertisement for doctors from the
continent, and went to Sharon, PA, for a year’s
work at Sharon General Hospital.
In 1956, he was appointed a fellow in Anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic, after which he
worked for a year as a cardiology resident at
Huron Hospital, completing his stay in the United
States as the anesthetist at Doctors’ Hospital,
Cleveland. His first and only child, a daughter,
Beena, was born there.
Madhu also worked a year as the obstetrics
resident at Sharon General Hospital and followed
him to Cleveland at first as the obstetric resident
at St. Alexis and completed two more years at
Marymount Hospital, Cleveland in 1960. They
decided to bring Beena to India and set sail
homeward in the fall of 1960 aboard HHS Queen
Elizabeth II, via Europe and Africa. In 1961, they
founded a private hospital in a quiet, pastoral
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community. Because of their great training in the
United States, they were immediately invited to
be leaders in the community. Retiring in 2003,
they sold the private 25-bed hospital to a group
of physicians, and, today, their building houses
the District Multi-Specialty Oncology Hospital,
serving the underprivileged through private donations and government affiliations.
Together, they will celebrate 50 years with the
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, their alma mater
and the root that grew them and their many
social works, including Indian Red Cross Society,
of which Madhu is the Chairman of the State
branch in Ahmadabad, while Ramesh is the Secretary at the Health Center for Yoga at Navsari.
Both Ramesh and Madhu acknowledge their debt
of gratitude to Cleveland Clinic.
Earl K. Shirey, MD (IM’56). See William Martinez,
above, and Russell E. Raymond, DO, 80s, below.
60s
John Y. Kalucis, MD (OTOCD’64, OTOCD’67). See
Martin S. Trott, MD, 90s, below.
70s
Ijaz Ahmad, MD (CLCH’71),
wrote to say that he continues
to appreciate the training he received at Cleveland Clinic under
Charles E. Willis, MD. He says
he also learned a lot from Drs.
Waide Price, Ray J. Shamberger,
Lena Lewis and Sharad D.
Ijaz Ahmad, MD
Deodhar, and is grateful to
Edward E. Siegler, MD, who was kind enough to
introduce him to Cleveland Clinic. “I love all of
them,” he says. He adds that he always likes
the information he receives from the Office of
Alumni Relations. Currently, he is a consultant
chemical pathologist in a private hospital, Shifa
International Hospital, in Islamabad, Pakistan. He
and his wife, Riffat, have four children; daughter,
Attiya, who worked for 12 years as a scientist for
Novavax, Inc. in Rockville, MD, and whose husband is in his second year of an internal medicine
residency in Toledo; son, Aqeel, who completed a
nephrology fellowship in Toledo on June 30, 2010;
daughter, Zeenit, formerly a statistician married
to an application engineer with Weatherford
International in Kinwood, TX; and son, Kaleem,
who completed his last semester of a master’s in
finance and is a consultant in oil and gas development in Pakistan.
Joseph J. Estwanik, MD (ORS’76), of Charlotte,
NC, was recognized at the Carolinas Boxing Hall of
Fame Banquet in June 2009. He was inducted into
the hall in recognition of his 29 years as a ringside
physician for the athletes of boxing and martial
arts. A Cleveland native, he has been called “one
of the foremost ring doctors in the country.” He
has served on the boards of the World Boxing Association (WBA), Association of Boxing Commissions and American Association of Professional
Ringside Physicians. While Medical Chairman
for USA Boxing, he traveled with the U.S. team to
such locations as the Goodwill Games in Russia
and to competitions in Bangkok, Bombay, London
and Paris. Dr. Estwanik designed the gloves
used in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and wrote
the book “Sportsmedicine for the Combat Arts,”
which provides guidelines for the modern care
of athletes participating in boxing, wrestling and
MMA. He enjoys photography, weight training and
pistol shooting. Dr. Estwanik and his wife, Janice,
raised three children in Charlotte, NC, where Dr.
Estwanik established the Sports Science Center.
Their children are Joseph IV, JD, who passed away
unexpectedly in his sleep, at age 35, on Sept. 8,
2009; Ashley Estwanik Gray; and Brett H.; and
granddaughter, Ella Covington Gray.
Dr. Estwanik (at right) upon his induction into the
Carolinas Boxing Hall of Fame, with wife Janice
and their late son, Joe.
Victor W. Fazio, MD (S’73, CRS’74). See Ian Civil,
MD, 80s, below, and also Campus Clips, page 7.
Arthur J. McCullough Jr, MD (GL-1’75, IM’77).
See Campus Clips, page 7.
80s
Jeffrey E. Binder, DO (OTO’87). See Martin S.
Trott, MD, 90s, below.
Ian D.S. Civil, MBChB (VS’85), Director of Surgery
and Head of Trauma Services at Auckland Hospital
in Auckland, New Zealand, was elected President
of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
(RACS) in February. Dr. Civil is only
the seventh New Zealander to hold
this post since the college was
founded in 1927. Dr. Civil began his
medical training in Auckland, NZ, but
took a three-month final year elective
in General Surgery at Cleveland Clinic
in 1976. After completing training
in general surgery in Auckland, he
Ian D.S. Civil, MBChB
returned to Cleveland Clinic for vascular training. Further training in trauma surgery led
to his return to New Zealand in 1987 to a post
with the New Zealand Army, actively serving in
the first Gulf War in 1990-1991. Since leaving
the Army, Dr. Civil has worked as a general and
vascular surgeon at Auckland City Hospital with
a continuing university affiliation. First elected
to the RACS Council in 2003, Dr. Civil has been
responsible for the education portfolio as Chair
of the Education Board and Censor in Chief from
2007 until his recent election to the Presidency.
Dr Civil writes, “I never expected this outcome,
and it is a huge honor.” He is looking forward to
the opportunity to travel widely in his new role and
renew friendships with many colleagues around
the world, including those at Cleveland Clinic.
Cleveland Clinic and the Alumni Association take
much pride in Dr. Civil’s election to the most
distinguished position in surgery in Australia and
New Zealand. Robert E. Hermann, MD, Emeritus
Chairman of General Surgery and Medical Director,
Alumni Relations, and Victor W. Fazio, MD (S’73,
CRS’74), Emeritus Chairman of Colorectal Surgery,
are especially proud, and both have acknowledged
that Dr. Civil, a native New Zealander, has had
a most distinguished career, holding a variety of
important appointments in RACS.
Robert J. Coppola, DO (N’80), a neurologist
with Kaiser Permanente in Virginia, while in Las
Vegas attending a midyear American Academy of
Neurology meeting in November 2009, was eager
to tour the new Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center
for Brain Health. Dr. Coppola writes, “I met with
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(director) Dr. Schiffer and we had a nice morning
talking and touring the facility. It was a great experience, and he was terrific to meet and was very
kind and pleasant to be with. YES, please put me
down as a definite for a return trip in September
for the Alumni Hot Topics in Healthcare CME
Program and Reunion. My wife, Iris, and I plan on
going, as I’d like to show her the facility.” Dr. Coppola adds that they can “check up” on their son,
who lives Las Vegas, while they are there!
Melinda L. Estes, MD (NPTH’84), President and
CEO of Fletcher Allen Healthcare in Burlington, VT,
was named one of the Top 60 physician leaders of
hospitals and healthcare systems in America by
Becker’s Hospital Review. Dr. Estes, along with
Drs. Delos “Toby” Cosgrove, CEO and President
of Cleveland Clinic, and A. Marc Harrison, Chief
Medical Operations Officer of Cleveland Clinic,
and A. Gus Kious, President of Cleveland Clinic’s
Huron Hospital, were selected based upon
nominations, research and accolades received
by the institutions they lead. As many hospitals
move toward clinical integration, a renaissance
of physician leadership may be on the horizon,
returning to levels seen a century ago when more
than one-third of U.S. hospitals were run by
physicians. Dr. Estes served as Associate Chief
of Staff at Cleveland Clinic, Executive Director
of Business Development and Chief Operating
Officer of Cleveland Clinic Florida, leaving that
post in the fall of 2003 for her current position.
She also served as Chief of Staff at MetroHealth
Medical Center in Cleveland. Becker’s Hospital
Review is a bimonthly publication, Website and
e-newsletter offering business and legal news and
analysis relating to hospitals and health systems
for hospital executives.
Lorrie G. Finelli, DO (D’87), and her husband,
Daniel M. Finelli, DO, JD (PV’87), of Ambler, PA,
filled us in on their two daughters: Cole graduated
from Harvard University in June 2009, and Beu
is in her third year at Johns Hopkins University.
Lorrie adds, “Thank you, Cleveland Clinic for my
residency. I sincerely appreciate my training and
my specialty!!” The couple lives and practices in
the Philadelphia area. Daniel is a licensed physician, board-certified in Internal Medicine, and
an experienced trial lawyer with Raynes McCarty,
having received his law degree from John Marshall
College of Law in Cleveland.
T. Vidimos-Stultz, RPh, MD (D’89, DS’91), 90s,
page 19.
Richard M. Ransohoff, MD (N’84). See Campus
Clips, page 8.
Russell E. Raymond, DO (IM’84, CARD’87),
Cleveland Clinic interventional cardiologist, came
from a family of doctors, but while his three brothers are obstetricians, he chose a different area of
specialization. Russ decided to go into cardiology,
saying, “I was fascinated with the heart and
how it works, the mechanics of the heart. I was
fascinated by the fact that the heart is something
that, when it’s broken, much of the time, we can
fix it.” Russ especially enjoys the chance to combine outpatient care with surgery and has taken a
special interest in educating medical fellows. “It
is so important to teach the fellows and give them
respect because the fellows are the future,” he
says. As a cardiologist, Russ has continued to use
his background in a unique way by organizing annual trips to Honduras to provide medical aid. This
tradition began through the Salvation Army, with
which his family is closely involved, after the hurricane of 1998 in Honduras. The group that goes
there each year began with Dr. Raymond’s family
and has grown to include Cleveland Clinic doctors
– the yearly group now numbers approximately 30.
“We are a very faith-based family, and our service
to the people of Honduras is really an extension of
our faith,” he says. “We only pass this way once
in life. We should each take the opportunity every
day to give to others, for we are so very blessed in
this country.” Russ and his wife, Karen, daughter
of Earl K. Shirey, MD (IM’56), Cleveland Clinic
Emeritus cardiologist, have three children; sons,
Chad E. Raymond, DO (PGY-3, Internal Medicine),
and Tim, and daughter, Abbie. Also see: Allison
90s
William E. “Bill” Bingaman, MD (NS’96), Vice
Chairman, Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute,
performed his 1,000th pediatric brain epilepsy
case the week of April 19 – a milestone for
any neurosurgeon. “Reaching 1,000 pediatric
epilepsy cases is an exciting milestone but, more
importantly, it is seeing the improved quality of
life our patients enjoy,” says Dr. Bingaman. “Our
center sees over 300 cases a year, and still,
many patients do not know that surgery is even
an option.” Epilepsy affects up to 1 percent of the
U.S. population, and Cleveland Clinic is one of the
few centers to perform brain surgery on epileptic
patients to improve their quality of life.
Tracy L. Hull, MD (CRS’92,
CFCRS’93), Colorectal Surgery,
Cleveland Clinic Digestive
Disease Institute, received the
Kaiser Permanente Award for
Excellence in Teaching at the
Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine diploma ceremony this year.
Tracy L. Hull, MD
Joel L. Mayerson, MD (ORS’99), is Associate
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Director of
Musculoskeletal Oncology at The Arthur James
Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University. He also
is program director for the Orthopaedic Surgery
Residency Training Program and serves as co-
Donald A. Moffa, Jr, MD, Chairman of Cleveland Clinic’s Department of Emergency Medicine has
announced that the Emergency Services Institute at Cleveland Clinic is recruiting emergency physicians. The full-service emergency department, which sees approximately 55,000 adult and pediatric
patients per year, is building new facilities and expanding its services. This growth opens the door for
participation in a variety of exciting opportunities.
• Cleveland Clinic main campus Emergency Department
• Community Emergency Departments, under construction in Twinsburg and Avon, Ohio
• Rapid Response Team
• Critical Care Transport
To learn more, please peruse clevelandclinic.org. Submit an online application by clicking on “Cleveland Clinic Careers,” and then “Physician Opportunities.”
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director of the Bone Tumor Clinic at Nationwide
Children’s Hospital in Columbus. He and his wife,
Connie, have two sons, Drew, 11, and Ethan, 8.
Martin “Marty” S. Trott, MD (OTO’94), after 15
years with ENT & Allergy Health Services Inc.,
where he practiced with six fellow alumni, has
relocated to Jackson Hole, WY, where he succeeds
a now-retired otolaryngologist and allergist at St.
John’s ENT. Marty and his family love the lifestyle
and scenery in Wyoming, saying “In season, we
ski every weekend; well, more often, actually, we
fall and ski at about the same frequency.” Marty,
who is working on his MBA, manages to find more
time these days to enjoy his children’s activities.
Marty and his wife, Cindy Trott (CRNA’94), have
three children, Elliott, 15; Isabel, 12; and Abigail,
11. Cindy completed a master’s degree at Case
Western Reserve University, and after spending
a couple of years in the ICU as an RN, completed
training as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist in Cleveland Clinic’s program. Marty’s former
alumni co-workers include: Jeffrey E. Binder, DO
(OTO’87); Mark E. Mehle, MD (OTO’92), brother
of Anthony L. Mehle, MD (D’90); John A. Panuto,
Jr. MD (A’92); Chris J. Kalucis, DO (OTO’95), son
of John Y. Kalucis, MD (OTOCD’64, OTOCD’67);
Marc E. Guay, MD (OTO’95); and Todd E. Rambasek, MD (A’04).
The Trott Family at Yellowstone National Park
last fall.
Bennie R. Upchurch, MD, FACP, FACG (IM’96),
was appointed Chairman of Gastroenterology
and Hepatology at Creighton University Medical
Center in Omaha, NE, in December. Previously, he
was on staff at Cleveland Clinic (Feb. 6, 2006, to
Oct. 31, 2009) and served as a visiting assistant
professor with the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College
of Medicine. He was named “Teacher of the Year”
for Gastroenterology in 2009. Bennie writes, “My
family and I are enjoying Omaha. I am enjoying
conquering the numerous challenges associated
with running a division. Although there is great
responsibility in my new role, I am fortunate
to be surrounded by an extremely supportive
faculty. It has been great to step into this role
with confidence, after years of witnessing expert
physician leadership from mentors and colleagues
like John A. Dumot, DO (IM’94, GE’98, GEAE’98),
and David S. Barnes, MD. I have always said that
at Cleveland Clinic, I had the best partners in the
world. Drs. Dumot and Barnes both epitomized
this characterization and were always supportive
of me in so many ways. I will always be grateful.”
to help a great deal, despite not being a doctor.
She took patients to the appropriate physician after
they were screened by a nurse, played with the
children, took patients to the pharmacy and helped
with minor procedures. “It was a challenge to
adjust to the extremely high temperature, coming
from a cold winter climate in Cleveland. Each day,
it got progressively hotter. On our last day, it was
106 degrees,” she says. “We saw more than 3,300
patients – two-thirds of whom were children in
schools over the six days, and performed minor
surgeries on school desks.” Allison will continue
to go every year and Kristen and Katherine will
take turns accompanying their mother. “The
people were very grateful and welcoming to our
little group. They don’t have much, but they are
the happiest when they have others to share their
little miracles of life with,” Kristen says. “They
marvel at the riches of the simple things. We took
pictures of the children and gave them to them.
They were overjoyed and held them like they were
gold, because many of them have never even seen
themselves, as they don’t have mirrors.” See also
Russell E. Raymond, MD, 80s, above.
The Upchurch Family
00s
John J. Vargo, MD, MPH (GE’90). See Campus
Clips, page 7.
Allison T. Vidimos-Stultz, RPh, MD (D’89,
DS’91), Chair of Cleveland Clinic’s Department of
Dermatology and Vice Chairman of the Dermatology and Plastic Surgery Institute, and Kristen Stultz,
her 14-year-old daughter, volunteered in Honduras
Jan. 31 to Feb. 7, delivering medical treatment
there as part of a Salvation Army medical mission
trip started by Russell “Russ” E. Raymond, MD
(IM’84, CARD’87) and his family after Hurricane
Mitch hit Honduras in 1998. Three years ago, they
wanted a dermatologist to go along, and Allison
volunteered. She took her older daughter, Katherine, along. This year, she brought Kristen. Mom
and daughters find the experience quite rewarding.
“We stayed in San Pedro Sula and ventured out
from there every day to a different rural town. The
towns were chosen by a local Honduras physician,
based on the lack of access to medical care,”
Kristen says. “We visited Salvation Army Corps in
San Pedro Sula, San Franciso, Donano, Santa Cruz
and Bajos De Chalotar. Some of the people we saw
walked up to six hours to see us.” Kristen was able
Sik Kim Ang, MD (H/OPM’08), and his wife, Yin
Ping Liew, MD (VM’05, H/N’07), are living in
Brunei, on the north coast of the island of Borneo
in Southeast Asia, with their son, Nicholas.
Mihir R. Bakhru, MD (IM’07), former Internal
Medicine Chief Resident (’07-’08), is completing
his gastroenterology fellowship at the University
of Virginia, where he was named Chief Fellow for
2010-2011. After that, he will return to Cleveland
Clinic to complete his final year of Fellowship in
Advanced Endoscopy.
Dr. Bakhru and wife, Ritu, with their children.
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live piano recital included several types of music
to reach the most patients. “There are slow
rhythms to calm the heart rate and high-tempo
beats to trigger the motor area in the brain, which
stimulates movement; this can be great for
patients with difficulties in that area. It is difficult
to measure individual effects on each patient, but
feedback we have had from other concerts like
this has shown even one hour of live music can
raise energy levels and reduce stress by 60 to 80
percent for as long as a week,” he says. The hourlong performance by Prisca Benoit, from Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique du Paris,
was a repertoire of music by Brahms, Beethoven
and the Spanish composer Albéniz. Neurological
studies have shown that music can have many
physical benefits. By placing sensors on the skin,
Dr. Chemali and other doctors at Cleveland Clinic
have been able to demonstrate a physical reaction
even when a patient does not like the music. “The
UAE and Abu Dhabi, in particular, seem to have
placed such an important investment on the arts
that our work is really relevant here,” says Neil
Cherian, MD (NOTO’02), of Cleveland Clinic’s
Center for Neurological Restoration, who also was
there for a medical forum as part of the Abu Dhabi
Festival.
Elaine E. Wyllie, MD (CHN’84,
EEG’85), Epilepsy Specialist and
Director of Cleveland Clinic’s
Center for Pediatric Neurology,
lectured early in March at
Harvard Medical School and
Boston Children’s Hospital on
Cleveland Clinic’s experience
with children who benefited
from epilepsy surgery despite
complicated features on EEG
or MRI. “Many people don’t
realize just how serious epilepsy can be,” says Dr. Wyllie. “In about 30 percent of patients, we can’t
stop the seizures with medications – and for some of those patients, surgery can truly make a difference. It’s our obligation to explore the boundaries of epilepsy surgery, so we can help as many children as possible. I was delighted to have this opportunity to share our innovations with the Harvard
group.” An exciting Cleveland Clinic discovery was that children and teens with congenital or early
focal brain lesions may have an excellent response from epilepsy surgery, despite generalized findings
on EEG. Traditionally, focal – not generalized – EEG discharges were considered a requirement before
proceeding with epilepsy surgery. Dr. Wyllie and others showed that in special cases, surgery may be
successful despite generalized EEG patterns.
Another Cleveland Clinic finding is that some children with MRI abnormalities on both sides of the
brain may benefit from surgery, if the EEG shows focal seizure onset on one side only. Traditionally,
MRI evidence of abnormality on the side of the brain not targeted for surgery has been considered a
contraindication for operation. Now, we know that seizures may arise from one side only, even if both
sides are affected by the underlying brain injury or malformation. In these children, surgery may make
all the difference.
Michael J. Connor Jr., MD (H/N’09), and his wife,
Jessica, celebrated the first birthday of their son,
Erik, on May 14. Michael is a GL-7 Critical Care
Medicine Clinical Fellow at Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Wyllie was touched by the response from Tobius Loddenkemper, MD (RES/NSD’03, PD’05,
CHN’08), who is on the staff of the pediatric epilepsy group at Boston Children’s Hospital. “Your lecture changed the way we approach our patients in our surgery conference,” says Dr. Loddenkemper.
“Thanks for talking with us about surgical opportunities in challenging cases.”
Christian S. M. Breburda, MD, PhD (CARD/I’96),
who completed his post-doctoral fellowship at the
University of California at San Francisco in 1997,
has been Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
at the University of Arizona and Director of Noninvasive Cardiology and Imaging at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ, for the past four years.
He was formerly Director of Cardiovascular Imaging Research and Assistant Professor of Medicine
at the University of Wisconsin Medical School and
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at Tulane
University School of Medicine.
Elizabeth F. Callahan, MD (D’01), Founder and
Director of SkinSmart Dermatology in University
Park, FL, is pleased to announce that fellow alumna, Jonelle K. McDonnell, MD (D’01), joined her
practice in September. Jonelle was a dermatologist
at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland from July 2001
to September 2009. Elizabeth adds that they are
looking to add a Mohs surgeon to their practice,
which is near Sarasota, FL. Visit their website at
www.skinsmartdermatology.com or forward your
resume to alumni@ccf.org.
Kamal R. Chemali, MD (NEMG’00, NPHY’00),
Staff, Neurology and the Neuromuscular Center,
hosted a recital for more than 50 patients in the
main lobby at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu
Dhabi, which is managed by Cleveland Clinic. A
Thomas W. Frazier II, PhD (NPSYO’05), of
Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Pediatric Behavioral
Health and Center for Autism, was awarded a
KL2 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Training
Program grant from the National Institutes of
Health. This grant will assist Dr. Frazier in his work
examining structural brain changes and cognitive
deficits associated with mutations in PTEN in
children with autism.
Anton Gorbachev, PhD (RES/I’02), Cleveland
Clinic Research Associate, Immunology, was
awarded a four-year, $308,000 grant entitled
“CXCL9/Mig-dependant Suppression of Cutaneous
Tumors.”
Juan P. Grimaldos, MD (RES/CS’97, AN’01), was
named Medical Director of Cardiac Anesthesia at
the Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, TX, in
March.
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Micah A. Jacobs, MD (IM’06, ID’08), and his
wife, Beth, announce the birth of their first child,
daughter Arielle Chasi Jacobs, born March 3 in
Pittsburgh, where Dr. Jacobs is in private practice
specializing in infectious diseases, attending at
several hospitals (UPMC, St. Margaret, UPMC
Passavant, Ohio Valley General Hospital and
HealthSouth Harmarville Rehabilitation Hospital).
Todd E. Rambasek, MD (A’04). See Martin S.
Trott, MD, 90s, page 19.
Jonathan “Jon” J. Taliercio, DO (IM’08), Nephrology and Hypertension Fellow, and Rachel M.
Taliercio, DO (IM’08), Pulmonary Disease and
Critical Care Medicine Fellow, both at Cleveland
Clinic, proudly announce the birth of their triplets,
Ethan John, Fynn Michael and Landon Barton, on
Feb. 22.
Micah, Beth and baby Arielle overlooking
Pittsburgh’s three rivers.
Rachel and Jon Taliercio with their triplets.
Tobius Loddenkemper, MD (RES/NSD’03, PD’05,
CHN’08). See Elaine E. Wyllie, MD, 80s, above.
Samer N. Narouze, MD (IM/PR’98, AN’02,
PM’03), has joined Summa Western Reserve
Hospital, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, as Chairman of the
Pain Management Department. He previously was
Program Director of the Pain Medicine fellowship
at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Narouze is board-certified
in anesthesia pain management, pain medicine,
headache medicine and anesthesiology, and was
selected as one of America’s Top Pain Medicine
Physicians in 2007 by Consumers’ Research
Council of America. He specializes in treating
chronic intractable headaches – a practice that
has drawn patients from across the country. He
also has pioneered the use of ultrasound-guided
nerve blocks and spinal injections, which he says
allows for a safer injection without radiation. Dr.
Narouze will be joined at Western Reserve by Syed
S. Ali, MD (AN’09), and James Timothy Sable,
MD (AN’09), who completed their Pain Management fellowships at Cleveland Clinic this year.
Nicholas S. Papakonstantinou, MD (ORS’08),
joined Rochester Hills Orthopaedics in Rochester,
MI, in September. He and his wife, also proudly
announce the birth of their first child, born in
June 2009.
George Thomas, MD (H/N’10), who joined the
Cleveland Clinic staff in the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, and his wife, Seenia,
welcomed their first child, Joshua, on March 21.
Srividya “Vidya” Vootukuru, MD (H/N’09), and
his wife, Shailender “Shail” Bra are proud to
announce the birth of their twin sons, Kapil and
Sunand, on Feb. 16. Vidya is a Transplant Fellow
at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
Future Alumni
Chad E. Raymond, DO (PGY-3, Internal Medicine). See Russell E. Raymond, DO, 80s, page 19.
Former Staff
Sharad D. Deodhar, MD, Emeritus Staff, Clinical
Pathology, 1964 to 1993, Charlottesville, VA: See
Ijaz Ahmad, MD (CLCH’71), 70s, above.
Gary W. Falk, MD, MS, a former member of the
Gastroenterology and Hepatology staff beginning in 1986, is now professor of medicine at
the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
Clinical Co-Director, Joint Center for Digestive, Liver and Pancreatic Medicine, University
of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine and the
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Co-Director, GI Motility/
Physiology Program, Hospital of
the University of Pennsylvania and
Perelman Center for Advanced
Medicine. Dr. Falk is a graduate of
the University of Rochester School
Gary W. Falk, MD, MS
of Medicine and, after his internship and Internal Medicine residency at George
Washington University, completed a Clinical and
Research Fellowship in Gastroenterology at the
University of Michigan Medical Center. While in
Cleveland, he completed a master of science in
Clinical Research at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine as part of a Cleveland
Clinic career development award. He remarks, “I
thoroughly enjoyed my time at Cleveland Clinic.
The model of patient care is first rate, and I had
wonderful colleagues and patients who were hard
to leave. I have moved east to be closer to family
and pursue unique multidisciplinary translational
research opportunities in Barrett’s esophagus and
eosinophilic esophagitis.”
Armin Schubert, MD, was appointed Chairman of
the Department of Anesthesiology at the Ochsner
Health System in New Orleans in July 2009. He
was on staff in General Anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic from Oct. 1, 1988, to June 14, 2009,
serving as Vice Chairman of the Anesthesiology
Institute.
In Memoriam
Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His
own burden in his own way.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Frank R. Begg, MD (IM’62, CARD’64), 79, died
Dec. 5, 2009. Dr. Begg, of Fox Chapel, PA, died
at Heritage Valley Health Care System, Beaver,
PA. He received his undergraduate and medical
degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, and
then was the first cardiology fellow under F. Mason
Sones, MD, at Cleveland Clinic. He returned to
Pittsburgh and started one of the first cardiac
catheterization laboratories in western Pennsylvania. He served as Director of Catherization at
Allegheny General Hospital until his retirement in
1991. He was a Founding Fellow of the Society for
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Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions,
with Dr. Sones. Dr. Begg inspired hundreds of cardiologists during his career – especially his eldest
son, Richard John Begg, MD, also a cardiologist.
Dr. Begg was nationally known for his studies of
heart patients, but his most indelible marks were
left on his colleagues, who found him to have
“amazing intellect” and always to be friendly and
encouraging. His wife notes that his relationship
with Cleveland Clinic remained very important
to him throughout his entire life and perhaps the
most important part of this was his friendship
with Dr. Sones and many of the others who
were with him during the years in Cleveland and
afterward. Dr. Begg is survived by his wife of 52
years, Sue (Fink) Begg, whom he met during his
internship at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville,
PA; and children, Richard (Catherine), Todd (Lisa
Patrick Esq.) and Stephen (Megan Garrison);
and six grandchildren. Memorial contributions
may be made to Heritage Valley Foundation Beaver, Heart and Vascular, 1000 Dutch Ridge Road,
Beaver, PA 15009.
Fairview Residents
Win Medical Jeopardy
Competition
Congratulations to Walaa Ayoub, MD; Nouman Iqbal, MD; and Thimmaiah Theethira,
MD, who represented Fairview Hospital at
“Doctor’s Dilemma, Ohio Edition,” and won
the competition. Fairview’s Internal Medicine
Residency Program hosted this third annual
competition sponsored by the American College of Physicians at Fairview on Feb. 12. The
residents represented Ohio at the national
competition in Toronto in April. KV Gopalakrishna, MD, chair, Department of Medicine
and Program Director, Internal Medicine
Residency Program, and Rakesh Bhalla, MD,
Associate Program Director, were two of the
four judges. Don Zabriskie, Clinical Manager,
Pharmacy, served as moderator.
Ralph L. Johnson, MD (S’54), 86, of Lethbridge,
Alberta, Canada, passed away suddenly at home
on March 22, 2010. He is survived by his wife,
Carol Johnson, and four children, David, Sydony,
Leslie and Jeffrey. Dr. Johnson last wrote the Office
of Alumni Relations in September 2008, saying,
“Thanks for your mailings, which are always
appreciated and read with interest, despite my
being retired from surgical practice for over 20
years. Memories of my residency at Cleveland
Clinic are, without exception, most pleasant!” Dr.
Johnson acknowledged his “mentor,” Alexander
Lind, MD (NS’52), at that time, as well. Memorial
contributions may be made to the Kiwanis Club of
Lethbridge, P.O. Box 125, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
T1J 3Y5, or the charity of one’s choice.
Alexa A. McCubbin, RN, 87, died April 16,
2010. Mrs. McCubbin was preceded in death by
her husband, former Cleveland Clinic research
staff member James W. McCubbin, MD (RES’51)
[3/28/21 to 5/3/81], and a sister, Liselotte
Martin. Mrs. McCubbin lived a life in service to
others professionally and in her retirement. Born
in Germany, she received her general nursing
education there during World War II. After the war,
she took additional training as a maternal-child
nurse. Mrs. McCubbin immigrated to the United
States in 1952 and worked as a nanny while she
learned English and took her U.S. nursing exams.
She spent most of her nursing career at Cleveland
Clinic, and she was the first epidemiologist in
its surgical suites. She married Dr. McCubbin
in 1970. She retired in 1988 after more than 30
years of service at Cleveland Clinic, where she
was the Head Nurse of Eye Surgery and the Infection Control Coordinator for the operating rooms.
Mrs. McCubbin was an expert seamstress, avid
skier, traveler and gardener. She put her skills to
work in retirement and was named Volunteer of
the Month in 2009 by the Cleveland Sight Center,
lauded for her more than 5,000 hours of service
in the craft room and at the center’s camp. She
also returned to Cleveland Clinic as a volunteer at the information desk. Mrs. McCubbin is
survived by stepdaughter, Patricia K. McCubbin of
Cleveland; niece, Sonya Martin Schwaegerle, MD
(ACLPTH’88, S/PTH’89); sister, Dr. Sigrid Brunjes;
and many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and
grandnephews. Memorial contributions may be
made to Cleveland Sight Center, 1909 E. 101 St.,
Cleveland, OH 44106.
Carlos A. Schaffenburg, MD (END’49, RES’49),
90, of West Point, MS, formerly of Chevy Chase,
MD, died Feb. 14, 2010, of natural causes. Dr.
Schaffenburg served as a postdoctoral fellow
at the Mayo Clinic, having received his medical
degree from the National University of Mexico in
1944, completing national health service in Mexico
and a residency program at the Hospital Nacional
de la Nutricion, Mexico City. Dr. Schaffenburg received further postdoctoral training at the Institute
de la Medecin Experimental of the University of
Montreal. His medical career included service in
the pharmaceutical industries in the United States,
Canada and Mexico, and as a medical officer for
the Division of Endocrine and Metabolic Drugs,
Office of Drug Review, Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Schaffenburg, who retired from active
practice in 1986, was a published poet who was
listed in the International Who’s Who in Poetry,
2004. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lila
M., in 1999, and is survived by three children,
Mark, Lynneth and Karl C.
Ransan Logan Smith, MD (S’55), 86, of Green
Valley, AZ, passed away June 1, 2009, at the
Carondelet Hospice and Palliative Care Center
in Tucson, AZ. The youngest of six children in an
Iowa farming family, he attended the University
of Iowa, the first member of his family to attend
college. He obtained his medical degree there in
1947, following service in the Army from 1943 to
1946. While in the Army, he attended the Sheffield
Scientific School special medical training program
at Yale University. After marrying Shirley Clark
in 1946, he interned at Deaconess Hospital in
Spokane, WA, and then entered private practice
in Oroville, WA. During the Korean War, Dr. Smith
was recalled into active duty as an Air Force
captain. He served as an administrator of the
Hills Field Base Hospital in Utah until 1953. Upon
his discharge, he undertook a two-year general
surgical residency at Cleveland Clinic, followed
by a second surgical residency at the Sisters of
Charity Hospital in Buffalo, NY. He and his wife
returned to the Pacific Northwest in 1957, and
he practiced there until 1979, when he moved to
Walla Walla, WA, where he served as a staff physician for the Veterans Administration. In 1980,
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now divorced, he married colleague Dr. Valerie
Bandelin. He retired from the VA in 1984 and
began spending winters in Hawaii, later settling
in Green Valley. His wife says that throughout his
career, he remained very proud of his Cleveland
Clinic training and displayed his certificate on
the wall of his room, where he could see it all
the time. He is survived by his wife and children
Steven, David, Gregory and Carol, as well as nine
grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be
made to Carondelet Hospice Services, 2202 N.
Forbes Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85745.
Elisabeth “Betty” Ward Trowbridge, MD, (OB/
GYN’65), 101, died in Klamath Falls, OR, on Aug.
13, 2008. The daughter of a physician who made
house calls in a horse and buggy, Betty received
her medical degree from the Medical College
of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1932. She
married Frederick L. Trowbridge on May 20, 1939,
and they raised three children while both worked
full time. The family moved from New Jersey to
Cleveland, where she joined Cleveland Clinic and
worked as a Clinical Associate from November
1959 until 1962, then
completed a three-year
OB/GYN residency at
Cleveland Clinic in
1965. She practiced
obstetrics and was
a strong advocate
for women’s health
Elisabeth Ward
services. She moved
Trowbridge, MD
to Houston, TX, where
she was in private
practice until 1974, serving as medical director
at St. Anthony Center (1968-1972), and then to
Boise, ID, where she served as Medical Director
of the Mountain States Institute Breast Cancer
Detection Program until her retirement at age
79. She moved to Klamath Falls, OR, in 1985
and continued her active lifestyle. She was a
hospice volunteer well into her 90s and also a
hospital guild volunteer. She was a member of
Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO), one
of the pioneer societies for women, and American
Association of University Women, as well as the
American Medical Women’s Association and the
American Fertility Society. Her family always will
remember her quiet thoughtfulness, dedication
to the happiness and well-being of others, and
strong belief in the importance of family. Robert
E. Hermann, MD, Emeritus Chairman of General
Surgery and Medical Director of Alumni Affairs,
says, “I remember Betty Ward very well from
her residency with Jim Krieger.” (Editor’s Note:
James S. Krieger, MD, introduced gynecology as a
specialty at Cleveland Clinic in 1950 and served
as Chairman of the Division of Surgery from
1971 until his retirement in 1974). Dr. Ward was
preceded in death by her husband, two brothers
and two sisters. She is survived by daughter, Joan
(Jon) Wayland; sons Frederick (Jane) Trowbridge and John (Vickie) Trowbridge; plus seven
grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to a PEO
scholarship fund for women (checks payable to
PEO Foundation-Oregon Chapter U c/o Denny Fullerton, 262 Bisbee St., Klamath Falls, OR 97603)
or to Sky Lakes Nurses Education Fund, Sky Lakes
Medical Center Foundation, 2865 Daggett Ave.,
Klamath Falls, OR 97601.
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Volume XX No. 2 | Summer 2010
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clinic, a hospital with more than 1,000 staffed beds, an education division and a
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About Cleveland Clinic
Abu Dhabi
This 360-bed hospital and clinic will be a
physician-led medical facility, served by
Western-trained, North American boardcertified (or equivalent) physicians. The
first facility in the Middle East to operate
according to the Cleveland Clinic staff
model, it will serve local and international
patients in an environment combining
excellent amenities with advanced technologies in surgery, imaging, telemedicine
and electronic medical records.
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi is a subsidiary
of Mubadala Healthcare, a business unit
of Mubadala Development Co.
You can see detailed information
about Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
from a recorded information session
held a year ago in Cleveland at http://
my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/
abudhabi/video.aspx.
Make Your Mark on the World Stage
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi is seeking extraordinary physician leaders to fill chair positions for its five institutes and
seven departments. This is a once-in-a-lifetime professional opportunity to make your mark on the world stage.
Reporting directly to the Chief Medical Officer, you will join a world-class medical and administrative team as it
establishes the premier tertiary care hospital and clinic in the Middle East.
Along with collaborative support from Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, you will plan and develop the systems, procedures and
culture of the following institutes or departments and lead your team when the facility opens its doors in late 2012.
• Chair of Eye Institute
• Chair of Digestive Disease Institute
• Chair of Heart and Vascular Institute
• Chair of Neurological Institute
• Chair of Respiratory and Critical Care Institute
• Chair of Department of Anesthesiology
• Chair of Department of Emergency Medicine
• Chair of Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Chair of Department of Radiology
• Chair of Department of Quality and Patient Safety
• Chair of Department of Medical Subspecialties
• Chair of Department of Surgical Subspecialties
The capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi is one of the most exciting and cosmopolitan cities in the Middle
East. Under a new generation of visionary leaders, it has grown to a metropolis of 1.5 million people and is a hub of
business, culture and tourism. Interested candidates should submit an electronic letter of interest and curriculum
vitae to: Robert Lorenz, MD, FACS, Chief Medical Officer, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi at: chairsearch@ccaduae.ae.
Candidates for chair positions will be considered in 2010, with deployment to Abu Dhabi in 2011. Non-chair physicians will be recruited in 2011, to begin clinical work between late 2012 and early 2013.

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