Biographical Sketch
J. Harry Isaacson, MD, is a Staff physician in the Department of General Internal Medicine at Cleveland Clinic's main campus. Dr. Isaacson is also an Associate Professor of medicine and Director of Clinical Education at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University.
His clinical interests include general internal medicine, medical education and substance abuse.
Dr. Isaacson received his medical degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was the chief medical resident in internal medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Medical Center Hospital of Vermont in Burlington. He completed a fellowship in substance abuse at Wayne State University. He has held medical school teaching positions in Vermont and Michigan and joined Cleveland Clinic in 1993 as an assistant staff physician and director of educational programs in the Department of General Internal Medicine. He currently is licensed to practice medicine in Ohio.
Dr. Isaacson received the Cleveland Clinic Bruce Hubbard Stewart Fellow for Humanistic Medicine award and was listed in the "Best Doctors in Cleveland" for four separate years and in the "Best Doctors in America" in 2003. He is a reviewer for numerous professional journals, including Archives of Family Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Annals of Internal Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and member of the Society of General Internal Medicine, among others.
Specialty Interests
General Internal Medicine, medical education, Substance Abuse
Industry Relationships
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