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Cleveland Clinic has announced new leaders for its Northeast Ohio Market and Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.
These appointments will be effective as follows:
Dr. Malone began his career as a clinician and researcher. During his 35 years at Cleveland Clinic, he has held numerous leadership positions, including Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology and President of Lutheran Hospital. Dr. Malone is recognized internationally for his contributions to psychiatric research and innovation.
In his new role, Dr. Guzman will be responsible for overseeing the leadership for main campus, all Ohio regional hospitals, family health centers, ambulatory sites and pharmacy.
Dr. Guzman joined Cleveland Clinic in 2007. Since 2021, he has served as Chief Executive Officer of CCAD. During his tenure as CEO, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi became the only quaternary academic medical center in the UAE. In addition, it was ranked best hospital in the country and the region and one of the top hospitals worldwide over several years.
Prior to this role, Dr. Guzman served as Chief of Staff for five years and Chief Medical Officer in 2017. Before his time in Abu Dhabi, he served as Vice President of Regional Hospital Medical Operations at our main campus. He was the Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit and Chair of the ICU Operations for Cleveland Clinic Health System, where he coordinated the standards of critical care services and led the development of the ICU telemedicine program (e-hospital).
He received his medical degree from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, in 1988. After completing his residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in critical care medicine at Hospital Privado de Comunidad, Mar del Plata, Argentina, he completed an additional fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit. Dr. Guzman is a fellow of the American College of Critical Care, and a graduate of the Baldwin Wallace University Healthcare MBA program.
Dr. Haber will be leading a workforce of more than 5,300 caregivers at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, with a focus on strategic growth, and excellence in high acuity care. As part of the M42 group, he will also play a wider role in driving innovation and tech-enabled health solutions in line with the group’s mission to transform the traditional healthcare landscape. He has been with Cleveland Clinic for nearly 20 years, most recently as Chair of the Glickman Urological Institute, Enterprise Chair of Urology, and Professor of Surgery.
As a surgical innovator, he led his teams in performing the first-ever single port laparoscopic donor nephrectomy in Europe and the first robotic kidney transplant in the United Arab Emirates, and multiple firsts at Cleveland Clinic, including robotic intracorporeal urinary diversion, robotic kidney auto transplant and robotic Level 3 IVC thrombectomy.
Dr. Haber received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France. He completed residency training at the Lille University Hospital in Lille, France. His doctorate is in biotechnology from the University of Paris XI.
Both Drs. Guzman and Haber will report to CEO and President Tom Mihaljevic, M.D.
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