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Leopoldo Pozuelo, M.D.

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Appointed: 1997
Gender: Male
Languages: English
Spanish
Psychiatry and Psychology
Phone:(216) 445-3583
Location:Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Mail Code P57
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
Bakken Heart-Brain Institute

Associate Director

Phone:(216) 445-3583
Location:Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Mail Code P57
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
Cardiovascular Medicine
Phone:(216) 445-3583
Location:Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Mail Code P57
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
Psychiatry and Psychology

Section Head, Consult Liaison

Phone:(216) 445-3583
Location:Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Mail Code P57
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
 
 
Biographical Sketch

Leo Pozuelo, MD, FACP, has been Staff Psychiatrist at Cleveland Clinic since 1997 and is the current Section Head of Consultation Psychiatry. He has the pleasure to serve as Associate Director of the Bakken Heart Brain Institute, which was created in 2004. Cleveland Clinic has hosted the annual Heart Brain Summit since 2005, providing a one-in-a-kind forum attracting professionals from the disciplines of cardiology, neurology, behavioral medicine and biomechanical science.

Dr. Pozuelo's interests in psychosomatic medicine have concentrated in the arena of depression and cardiovascular disease. Current multidisciplinary projects include depression and correlation of heart rate recovery in cardiac disease, incidence of depression and atrial fibrillation, as well as anxiety disorders and arrhythmias.

Dr. Pozuelo received his medical degree from the University of Navarra Medical School in Pamplona, Spain. He is dually board-certified in internal medicine and psychiatry after completing a medicine residency in internal medicine at Huron Hospital in Cleveland and a psychiatry residency at University Hospitals of Cleveland and at Cleveland Clinic. He is also board-certified in psychosomatic medicine.

He pursues his interest in consultation liaison psychiatry as well as primary-care psychiatry. Dr. Pozuelo was the past Program Director for Adult Psychiatry, and is significantly involved in medical student education at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

In November of 2005, in conjunction with the Department of Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation, a Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Clinic was established to closely assess the psychiatric and psychological needs of cardiac patients at Cleveland Clinic.

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Professional Highlights

  • Staff, Joint Appointment, Cardiovascular Medicine

  • Associate Director, Bakken Heart Brain Institute
  • Consultant, Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation C51
  • Section Head, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
  • Discipline Leader of Clinical Psychiatry, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
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Education & Fellowships
Medical School:University of Navarra Medical School, Pamplona, Spain
 
Internship:Huron Hospital, Internal Medicine, Cleveland, OH
Residency:Cleveland Clinic, Psychiatry, Cleveland, OH
Residency:University Hospitals of Cleveland, Psychiatry, Cleveland, OH
Residency:Huron Hospital, Internal Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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Certifications

Psychosomatic Medicine

Psychiatry

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Specialty Interests
Consultation - liaison psychiatry heart brain medicine medical student education primary care psychiatry adult psychoparmacology.
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Awards & Honors
  • Best Resident Award, Meridia Huron Hospital, 1993
  • Medical  Staff Outstanding Resident Award, 1994
  • Bruce Hubbard Stewart Memorial Award for Humanistic Medicine, 1996
  • Teacher of the Year, Cleveland Clinic Psychiatry Residency Program, 1998
  • Fellow, American College of Physicians (FACP), 2004
  • Best Doctors in America, 2007-2008 
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Professional Memberships
  • American College of Physicians
  • Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
  • American Psychosomatic Society
  • American Psychiatric Association
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Specializes in Diseases and Conditions
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Specializes in Services
  • Clinical Trials
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Industry Relationships
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