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Hospitalist has spent 13 years in a variety of leadership roles in the health system
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Rami Hazzi, M.D., has been named the leader of Cleveland Clinic Euclid Hospital
Cleveland Clinic has named Rami Hazzi, M.D., Vice President and Chief Medical Officer (VP/CMO) of Euclid Hospital, effective Oct. 12. This is the top leadership role at the hospital.
Dr. Hazzi has been with Cleveland Clinic for 13 years, most recently as medical director of the Admission-Transfer Center and bed management for Northeast Ohio, a role he will continue in his new position. He has been Cleveland Clinic’s Ohio director of clinical operations for hospital medicine since 2018. He has worked as a hospitalist, seeing admitted patients, for his entire tenure at Cleveland Clinic and will continue to see patients at Euclid Hospital.
He also is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
“We are delighted to have Dr. Hazzi taking this leadership role at Euclid Hospital,” said Brian Harte, M.D., president of Hillcrest and Mentor hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic East submarket. “He is a collaborative leader in the field of hospital medicine and highly skilled in ensuring patients always receive the highest quality care. We look forward to him implementing strategic improvements to improve the excellent care provided by our team at Euclid Hospital.”
Dr. Hazzi earned his medical degree from Damascus University in Syria in 2009 and completed a residency in internal medicine at Unity Health System, Rochester, N.Y., in 2013. He is a senior fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine, a past president of the society’s Lake Erie Chapter and a fellow of the American College of Physicians.
He has special interests in clinical operations, including staffing and scheduling, hospital throughput facilitation, inpatient workflows, recruitment, onboarding, strategic initiatives and fiscal metrics.
Dr. Hazzi succeeds Teresa Dews, M.D., who has retired from the VP/CMO role and returned to clinical practice in pain medicine.
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