Skylar Scarnecchia, an eighth-grader from Champion Township, Ohio, overcame a rare cancer diagnosis and amputation to return to playing competitive sports. Scarnecchia was honored with the Cleveland Clinic Sports Health Courage Award during the 20th Greater Cleveland Sports Awards presented by Medical Mutual and Huntington on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel … Read More
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Cleveland Clinic Names New Chair of Hillcrest Hospital’s Board of Trustees
Hiroyuki Fujita, Ph.D., has been named chair of Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital’s Board of Trustees, beginning Jan. 1. He succeeds Ronald Ross, M.D., FACR, who has chaired Hillcrest’s Board of Trustees since it was created in 2013. Dr. Fujita is the founder and CEO of Quality Electrodynamics (QED) headquartered in Mayfield Village, a global innovator … Read More
Cleveland Clinic Reaches New Organ Transplant Record in 2019
Organ transplants reached record levels at Cleveland Clinic in 2019. The hospital system performed 897 transplants, including heart, kidney, liver and lung transplants. That’s up 3 percent from 2018’s record-breaking year. Cleveland Clinic also introduced innovative techniques to shorten recovery times for both recipients and living donors. “Patients with end-stage organ disease rely on us … Read More
Cleveland Clinic Study Identifies Genetic Anomaly Associated with Poor Response to Common Asthma Treatment
A new Cleveland Clinic study has uncovered a genetic anomaly associated with poor response to a common asthma treatment. The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that asthmatic patients with the gene variant are less likely to respond to glucocorticoids and often develop severe asthma. The research team, led by … Read More
FDA Approves 3D-printed Airway Stents Developed by Cleveland Clinic Doctor
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared patient-specific airway stents developed by Cleveland Clinic physician Tom Gildea, M.D. The stents are used to keep open the airways of patients with serious breathing disorders, such as those caused by tumors, inflammation, trauma or other masses. Until now, the patient-specific devices were being implanted under … Read More
Cleveland Clinic Welcomes Keynote Speaker Carl Allamby, M.D., at 28th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Celebration
CLEVELAND: Cleveland Clinic employees and community members will observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Friday, Jan. 17, as part of Cleveland Clinic’s 28th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Celebration. The event also highlights Cleveland Clinic’s commitment to service and inclusion. The keynote speaker for the event will be Carl Allamby, M.D., a … Read More
Cleveland Clinic Appoints Lara Jehi, M.D., Chief Research Information Officer
Lara Jehi, M.D., has been appointed the inaugural Chief Research Information Officer at Cleveland Clinic. In this newly created position, Dr. Jehi will establish and oversee a robust research informatics environment to advance biomedical research throughout Cleveland Clinic. She will work closely with information technology, research, finance and other key departments to optimize the enterprise’s … Read More
Caring for Caregivers, Their Families and Their Newborns with Paid Leave for New Parents
By Tom Mihaljevic, M.D. Cleveland Clinic CEO and President Cleveland Clinic’s vision is twofold – to be the best place to receive care and to be the best place to work in healthcare. At Cleveland Clinic, our employees are considered caregivers. They are the heart of our health system, and caring for them means investing … Read More
Skylar Scarnecchia to Receive Cleveland Clinic Sports Health Courage Award During 20th Greater Cleveland Sports Awards
Skylar Scarnecchia, an eighth-grader from Champion Township, Ohio, overcame a rare cancer diagnosis and amputation to return to playing competitive sports. Scarnecchia will be honored with the Cleveland Clinic Sports Health Courage Award during the 20th Greater Cleveland Sports Awards presented by Medical Mutual and Huntington on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, at the Renaissance Cleveland … Read More
Cleveland Clinic Study: Using Lungs from Increased-Risk Donors Expands Donor Pool While Maintaining Current Survival Rates
Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that using lungs from donors who are considered high risk for certain infectious diseases compared to standard risk donors results in similar one-year survival for recipients. In addition, researchers saw no difference in rejection or graft (donor lung) survival after one year in patients receiving lungs from increased-risk donors. The … Read More