Charles Modlin, M.D.

Charles Modlin, MD, FACS, is a Kidney Transplant Surgeon, Urologist and Founder and Director of the Minority Men’s Health Center of Cleveland Clinic's Glickman Urological Institute and the Cleveland Clinic Center for Health Equity.

In 1983, Dr. Modlin graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., with a degree in chemistry. He received his medical school education at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, graduating in 1987. He the moved to New York City, where he completed a six-year residency in urological surgery at New York University in 1993. He came to Cleveland in 1993, where he completed a three-year fellowship in basic science transplant immunology and clinical renovascular and renal transplantation surgery. In 1996, he joined the Staff of Cleveland Clinic's Urological Institute with a joint staff appointment within the Transplant Center. He has authored scientific publications and presented scientific research at national meetings. 

Dr. Modlin is not only the sole African American transplant surgeon in Northeastern Ohio, but he represents one of only 17 African American transplant surgeons in the entire United States.

A special area of interest of Dr. Modlin is the issue of healthcare disparities experienced by minority patients in the United States. Minority patients suffer a disproportionate burden of disease in many areas, such as prostate cancer, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and need for kidney transplantation. To this end, Dr. Modlin has developed a dedicated Minority Men’s Health Center and Center for Health Equity at Cleveland Clinic. The center conducts dedicated research into elimination of minority healthcare disparities and provides community outreach as well as direct patient care and public education to minority patients.

Dr. Modlin is board-certified in urology and a member of the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Transplantation, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, the American Urological Association and the Urologic Society of Transplantation and Vascular Surgery. He is Chair of the MOTTEP of Cleveland Education and Medical Advisory Board. He also serves as an elected member of the Northwestern University Medical School Alumni National Board. He is Chair of the Cleveland NAACP Health Committee and Chairs the 100 Black Men of Greater Cleveland Health Committee.

Some of Dr. Modlins’ honors and notoriety include the 2006 Ohio Commission on Minority Health Leadership Award, Humanitarian Award from the Kappa Fraternity, 2006 National Physician of the Year Award from the National Technical Association, an Alumni Merit Award from Northwestern University in recognition of his professional accomplishments and honor to his alma mater, several community leadership and service recognitions/awards and appearances on Cleveland television and radio newscasts, among others. He was one of the first inductees of Who’s Who in Black Cleveland and has received two proclamations from Cleveland City Council and the Cleveland Mayor for his outstanding community outreach to the minority community and mentorship to children. He sits on and holds offices on several boards including the National Medical Association, Cleveland NAACP, 100 Black Men of Greater Cleveland, the Shaker Schools Foundation, Bellflower Center for Child Abuse, and the Urban League of Greater Cleveland. He has also been recognized as a national leader and spokesman against the elimination of health disparities.

Dr. Modlin sits on the United Network of Organ Sharing Minority Affairs Committee and is the UNOS Representative from the National Medical Association. Other professional highlights include receiving the Cleveland Greater Cleveland Partnership MLK Community Service Award in 2007, the MOTTEP Man of the Year Award in 2000 and named one of Cleveland's 100 Most Influential by the Call & Post newspaper.

On the home front, he is married and is the father of four children. 

• Director, Minority Men's Health Center, Cleveland Clinic
• Appointed by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland to the Ohio Commission on Minority Health, 2007
• Appointed by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland to the Ohio Commission on African American Males, 2007
• SCLC Physician of the Year Award, 2007
• National Technical Association 2006 Physician of the Year Award

Urology

• Director, Minority Men's Health Center, Cleveland Clinic
• National Technical Association 2006 Physician of the Year Award
• Cleveland Greater Cleveland Partnership MLK Community Service Award, 2007
• SCLC Physician of the Year Award, 2007
• MOTTEP Man of the Year Award, 2000
• Ohio Commission on Minority Health Leadership Award, 2006
• Appointed by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland to the Ohio Commission on Minority Health, 2007
• Appointed by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland to the Ohio Commission on African     American Males, 2007
• Cleveland's 100 Most Influential, Call & Post newspaper, 2007
• Most Interesting Personalities, Who's Who in Black Cleveland, 2004
• Most Influential, Who's Who in Black Cleveland, 2005-2008

• American Urological Association
  United Network of Organ Sharing Minority Affairs Committee
  UNOS Representative from the National Medical Association
• National Medical Association
• American Society of Transplant Surgeons
• American Transplant Congress
• Urological Society for Transplantation and Vascular Surgery