As Center for Personalized Healthcare houses an initiative that touches all aspects of clinical medicine, we are grateful for the advice, advocacy, participation, and enthusiasm of our internal advisers. While we recognize that all of our clinicians practice personalized healthcare on a daily basis, we particularly appreciate the efforts of those who have embraced the opportunity to push the envelope of what that personalized standard of care could become.
Our Advisory Board members have helped to educate their peers and patients about new ways to personalize care. They have helped us to develop research projects which will help provide the proof needed to make these approaches mainstream. They have helped provide the content for projects which will allow us to bring new information and recommendations to the point-of-care for the use of all our clinicians. They have advocated on our behalf about the importance of personalized healthcare, family history, and the significance of clinically integrating innovative support technologies into clinical practice, and they have participated in many personalized healthcare events aiming at educating and driving awareness relating to personalized healthcare.
Below, we thank and recognize our Personalized Healthcare Advisory Board members for their time, effort, and commitment to the personalized healthcare initiative.
| Established Clinical Champions |
Appointment |
| Kathryn Teng, MD |
Center for Personalized Healthcare, Internal Medicine |
| Elias Traboulsi, MD |
Cole Eye Institute, Graduate Medical Education |
| Charis Eng, MD, PhD |
Genomic Medicine Institute |
| Rocio Moran, MD |
Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare |
| Arun Singh, MD |
Cole Eye Institute |
| Stephen Ellis, MD |
Cardiovascular Medicine, Section of Intervention |
| Wilson Tang, MD |
Cardiovascular Medicine, Section of Heart Failure |
| G. Thomas Budd, MD |
Solid Tumor Oncology |
| Halle Moore, MD |
Solid Tumor Oncology |
| Robert Dreicer, MD |
Solid Tumor Oncology |
| Matthew Kalady, MD |
Digestive Disease Institute |
| James Church, MD |
Digestive Disease Institute |
| Carol Burke, MD |
Digestive Disease Institute |
| Richard Sharp, PhD |
Bioethics |
| Lori Posk, MD |
Twinsburg Internal Medicine |
| Steven Campbell, MD, PhD |
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute |
| Caryl Hess, PhD, MBA |
Cleveland Clinic Academy |
| Neil Friedman, MD |
Center for Pediatric Neurology and Neurosurgery |
| Kandice Marchant, MD, PhD |
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Institute |
| Gary Procop, MD |
Clinical Pathology |
| Kenneth Zahka, MD |
Pediatric Cardiology, Twinsburg Cardiology |
| Tanya Tekautz, MD |
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology |
| Stuart Morrison, MD |
Pediatric Radiology |
| Michael Militello, PharmD, RPh, BCPS |
Pharmacy |
| Neil Mehta, MBBS, MS |
CCLCM/Internal Medicine |
| Mary Linda Rivera, RN, ND |
Office of Patient Experience |
| Joan Kavanagh |
Nursing Institute |
| Debbie Jones, CNP |
Wooster Pediatrics |
| Thomas Daly, MD |
Clinical Pathology |
| Fellow |
| Kristi Tough, MD |
Women’s Health Program |
| Medical Residents |
| Vipan Nikore, MD |
Internal Medicine Resident |
| Aleksander Lenert, MD |
Internal Medicine Resident |
The Center for Personalized Healthcare identifies the need to advocate on behalf of our clinician and patient partners to encourage and ease the adoption of personalized healthcare approaches into the standard way we care for our patients. We do this by actively working with many groups within and external to the personalized healthcare field to educate and promote new ways of thinking about healthcare. This includes collaborating with organizations whose goals include advancing the understanding and adoption of personalized healthcare concepts for the benefit of the patient, working with our public representatives to advocate for personalized healthcare, and collaborating with private and public insurers to align policies and reimbursement to provision of personalized healthcare.
We are an active member of the Personalized Medicine Coalition whose main goal is to educate the public and policy makers in relation to personalized healthcare, including our on PMC’s Public Policy Committee, overseeing the strategies by which PMC’s vision is communicated to target audiences, including all branches of the federal government as well as other non-governmental agencies.
What is the Patient Protections and Affordable Care Act (PPAC) of 2010?
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is a statute which was signed into law in the United States by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The PPACA requires all U.S. citizens to have minimum basic health coverage either through their employers or through individual coverage beginning on January 1, 2014.
How does personalized healthcare impact healthcare reform?
The approach to personalizing patient care will impact healthcare reform efforts by increasing the quality of care, patient satisfaction, and reduce unnecessary utilization of services which will allow for decrease in overall spending throughout the healthcare sector.
As a patient what can I do to help?
Be engaged…It is important for patients to become an active participant in their healthcare. There are a variety of ways patients can partner with their physician to improve the overall quality of their care. Here are three simple steps:
Ask…Ask your healthcare provider questions about increased risk factors for certain conditions based on your family, clarification of diagnosis, and treatment options. Open patient-physician communication is important to building this healthcare partnership.
Inform…It is important for patients to inform their healthcare provider about their family health history, lifestyle and environment. Disclosing family health history is among the most practical and effective tools to help assess and identify patients at risk for genetic and heritable conditions which in turn will promote targeted therapies and surveillance strategies. Thus, lowering healthcare costs by offsetting acute care due to late diagnosis.
Act...There are a variety of ways patients can decrease healthcare costs and improve quality of care. It is important for patients to act responsibly by following their medication regimens, attending scheduled appointments, and making healthy lifestyle decisions. These simple modifications can significantly impact the way physician practice medicine. This will enable them to practice proactive medicine (preventive care) rather than reactive (acute care) medicine.