Biographical Sketch
Marc Harrison, MD, is Associate Chief of Staff and Director of Medical Operations for the Cleveland Clinic Health System. He received a B.A. from Haverford College in 1986, a medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School in 1990, and a Masters in Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007. Dr. Harrison trained in Pediatrics and Critical Care at the University of Utah.
After joining the staff of the Children’s Hospital at Cleveland Clinic in 1999, he served as Medical Director of the PICU (2001-2004) and as Chairman of the Department of Pediatric Critical Care (2004-2006). He is particularly interested in using business principles to facilitate clinical outcomes and hospital operations. Dr. Harrison is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, as well as a member of the American College of Physician Executives.
As Director of Medical Operations for Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Harrison has been responsible for spearheading the Hospital Transfer process, developing a wide variety of clinical services including Cleveland Clinic Critical Care Transport and Medical Evaluation Teams, and re-vamping the day-to-day Operations of many aspects of patient care.
Dr. Harrison is a national expert in intensive care unit design and staffing with an emphasis on organization characteristics associated with optimal outcomes. In conjunction with Finance, he has led the Cleveland Clinic’s Business Intelligence enterprise into a model used as a gold standard for the healthcare industry.
Specialty Interests
administration, business intelligence and operations, cardiac critical care, pediatric critical care medicine
Industry Relationships
Cleveland Clinic physicians and scientists may collaborate
with the pharmaceutical or medical device industries
to help develop medical breakthroughs or provide
medical education about recent trends. The
collaborations are reviewed as part of the Cleveland
Clinic’s procedures. The Cleveland Clinic publicly
discloses payments to its physicians and scientists
for speaking and consulting of
$5,000 or more per year, and any equity, royalties,
and fiduciary relationships in companies with which
they collaborate. In publicly disclosing this
information, the Cleveland Clinic tries to provide
information as accurately as possible about its
doctors’ connections with industry and those of their
immediate family members. As of 9/4/2008, Dr.
Harrison has reported the financial relationships
with the companies listed below. Patients should feel
free to contact their doctor about any of the
relationships and how the relationships are overseen
by the Cleveland Clinic. To learn more about the
Cleveland Clinic’s policies on collaborations with
industry and innovation management, go to
our Integrity in Innovation page.
Royalty Payments. Dr. Harrison has the right to receive royalty payments for inventions or discoveries related to the companies shown below:
Business Objects
