Serpil Erzurum, MD

Serpil Erzurum, MD, was named Chief Research and Academic Officer of Cleveland Clinic in 2020, representing an expansion of her prior role as Chair of the Lerner Research Institute, which she held since 2016. In her new role, Dr. Erzurum focuses on strategic growth of enterprise-wide medical and scientific education programs; clinical, basic and translational research; and technology development to deliver the most innovative care to patients.

A practicing pulmonologist and active scientist, Dr. Erzurum holds the Alfred Lerner Memorial Chair in Innovative Biomedical Research. Her scientific contributions and leadership in pulmonary research have led to diagnostic and therapeutic advances in lung diseases and helped to identify human physiologic adaptive responses to high-altitude hypoxia. She has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles and has been the principal investigator on more than 20 federal grants, including multi-investigator program project grants and network trials. She is also a Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Erzurum has earned numerous awards, including the prestigious MERIT award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), and Association of American Physicians (AAP), where she served as president from 2017-2018. She has also served as chair of the Pulmonary Disease Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). Because of her work in advancing the careers of women in medicine and science, Dr. Erzurum was honored with the Elizabeth Rich Award from the American Thoracic Society.

Dr. Erzurum earned her medical degree from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and completed residency training in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. She completed fellowship training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and postdoctoral training at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

Education & Professional Highlights

Appointed
1993

Education & Fellowships

Fellowship - National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Senior Staff Fellow, Pulmonary
Bethesda, MD USA
1992

Fellowship - University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Pulmonary/Critical Care
Denver, CO USA
1990

Residency - Baylor College of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Houston, TX USA
1986

Medical Education - Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Rootstown, OH USA
1983

Additional Training

Certifications:
Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine- Pulmonary Disease
Internal Medicine- Critical Care Medicine

Professional Highlights

Alfred Lerner Memorial Chair in Innovation Biomedical Research, Pathobiology Department, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic
Chair, Allergy, Immunology, and Inflammation, American Thoracic Society (ATS)

Certifications

Internal Medicine - Pulmonary Disease
Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine - Critical Care Medicine

Specialty Interests

Asthma, exhaled markers in lung disease, lung biology and physiology, pulmonary hypertension, nitric oxide (NO) in lung physiology and disease

Awards & Honors

The Elizabeth Rich Award in recognition for efforts on behalf of women in the American Thoracic Society.
Association of American Physicians (AAP), Elected Member
American Society For Clinical Investigation (ASCI), Elected Member
Henry D. McIntosh Outstanding Resident Award, Department Of Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine

Innovations & Patents

Memberships

Deputy Editor, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Chair, American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease Board, for the national certifying examination in pulmonary medicine
Scientific Leadership Council, Pulmonary Hypertension Association

Research & Publications

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