Sharon Grundfest-Broniatowski, M.D.

Sharon Grundfest-Broniatowski, MD, FACS, has been a Staff Surgeon at Cleveland Clinic since 1982. She is also Associate Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Grundfest-Broniatowski is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery.

Her treatment interests include laparoscopic surgery, breast surgery, hernia surgery, gallbladder surgery, gastrointestinal surgery and pancreatic surgery. Dr. Grundfest-Broniatowski's research interests focus on bioartificial pancreas for diabetes, breast cancer and rehabilitation of paralyzed musculature.

She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Gastroenterology
and a member of the American Society for Colon and Rectal Surgery.

• Cancer Liaison Physician, American College of Surgeons
• Cancer Committee, Ohio Chapter of American College of Surgeons

Breast, laparoscopic, gastrointestinal, pancreatic and biliary surgery.

Award for Innovations in artificial organs: Opto-isolated pulse width modulated nerve stimulator for hemiparalysis of the face, 37th Annual Meeting of the ASAIO, Chicago, Ill., 4/26/91 

• Henry Viets Fellowship, 1973
• P & S Annual Research Award, 1973
• Joseph Garrison Parker Award, 1973

• American College of Surgeons
• American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery
• Central Surgical Society
• Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract

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Royalty Payments.  Dr. Grundfest-Broniatowski has the right to receive royalty payments for inventions or discoveries related to the companies shown below:

• Biosil USA, Inc.

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