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29 unusual facts about Cleveland Clinic


Al Lerner

He was President of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and donated over $100 million to the hospital system.

He was also a past president of the Board of Trustees of the famed Cleveland Clinic as well as a major benefactor.

Alpha-lactalbumin

Research by a Dr. Vincent Tuohy at the Cleveland Clinic is using α-Lactalbumin as the basis for a potential breast cancer vaccine.

Carmen A. Puliafito

These new appointees have been recruited from institutions such as Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt and the Cleveland Clinic as the result of national searches.

Chellis Glendinning

Glendinning's relations include Thomas Hooker, founder of the colony of Connecticut; Dr. Frank E.Bunts, founder of the Cleveland Clinic; and the civil rights activist, her mother Mary Hooker Glendinning.

Damon Dunn

Dunn has also worked with St. Augustine Soup Kitchen, the Cops-N-Kids program and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Fibromuscular dysplasia

In fact, according to the Cleveland Clinic approximately 10% of cases appear to be inherited and often coexists with other genetic abnormalities that affect the blood vessels.

Frank Dolphin

In February 2012 Taoiseach Enda Kenny announced that RigneyDolphin would provide patient management, patient outreach and telephone services to the Cleveland Clinic.

Gastrointestinal pathology

That first evening session was organized by Jack Yardley from Johns Hopkins University, and included Henry Appelman (University of Michigan), Harvey Goldman (Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School), Bill Hawk (The Cleveland Clinic), Tom Kent (University of Iowa), Si-Chun Ming (Temple University), Tom Norris (University of Washington), and Robert Riddell (University of Chicago).

Genomic Medicine Institute

For clinicians, there are extensive opportunities for interaction with internationally renowned clinicians at the Cleveland Clinic at clinics, tumor boards and in direct patient care.

These services are available at both the Main Campus as well as satellite locations of the Cleveland Clinic Health system.

It is located in the Center for Genomics Research Building in the Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America.

These samples provide a foundation for all research in genomic medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.

The Bioinformatics Core of the Lerner Research Institute is hosted at the Genomic Medicine Institute, and provides essential analysis for the integration of complex biological and clinical data to researchers across Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic (and beyond) either as fee-for-service or as collaborative efforts through grant support.

Georges Mathé

Dr. Brian Bolwell, chief of hematology at the Cleveland Clinic noted that Dr. Mathé had proved an important principle: "You can cure an incurable leukemia patient.", and had developed both a technique and an important term, "adoptive immunotherapy," to describe how a person’s own immune system can be used to combat cancer and other diseases.

Heydar Aliyev

Aliyev's health began to fail in 1999, when he had a major heart bypass operation in the United States at the Cleveland Clinic.

J. Madison Wright Morris

The then fifteen-year-old was on the donor waiting list for a short term before she was admitted to the Cleveland Clinic in March 2000, where she received the transplant.

Jackie Presser indictment scandal

Doctors reported that Presser had brain cancer, that four tumors had been found, and that Presser had been flown from the Cleveland Clinic to Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix for treatment.

Joe Jurevicius

On June 26, 2009, Jurevicius filed a lawsuit in Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas naming the Browns, the Cleveland Clinic, and Browns team physicians, Dr. Anthony Miniaci and Dr. Richard Figler, as defendants.

Koh Poh Koon

He also received Health Manpower Development Programme Scholarships from Singapore's Ministry of Health for advanced training in the surgical treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases in Edinburgh and at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

Lars Georg Svensson

He completed a residency in cariothoracic surgery from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and completed fellowships at Baylor and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.

Marian Ionescu

During 1958 and 1959 he spent time at the Mayo Clinic with Dr D.C.McGoon, and at the Cleveland Clinic with Dr D.B.Effler in the clinical service, and with Dr W. Kolff in the Laboratory for Artificial Organs.

Medical device

A 2011 study by Dr. Diana Zuckerman and Paul Brown of the National Research Center for Women and Families, and Dr. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed that most medical devices recalled in the last five years for “serious health problems or death” had been previously approved by the FDA using the less stringent, and cheaper, 510(k) process.

Miles J. Jones

Dr. Jones completed a one-year clinical internship in general surgery at the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH), and then entered the residency program in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

Richard A. Barone

The Brentwood Foundation, now part of the Cleveland Clinic Health Organization, was established in 1994 as a charitable trust dedicated to the promotion and advancement of medical education, clinical research, and community initiatives that impact health and wellness in the field of osteopathic medicine.

South Beach Diet

Cindy Moore, RD, a director of nutrition therapy at Cleveland Clinic and a former spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association claimed that although the diet meets the important criteria for a healthy diet: it emphasizes vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and lean protein while not omitting any major food group, phase 1 can throw the body's electrolyte balance off because most of the weight loss is water weight.

Split hand syndrome

The term split hand syndrome was first coined in 1994 by a researcher from the Cleveland Clinic called Asa J. Wilbourn.

Sultan bin Turki Al Sedairy

He received his diploma in Medical Technology in 1981 from the Cleveland Clinic Education Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio).

Teppo Numminen

Completed on September 20, 2007, at the Cleveland Clinic, the surgery was performed to repair a faulty valve.


Angiotensin

Angiotensin was independently isolated in Indianapolis and Argentina in the late 1930s (as 'angiotonin' and 'hypertensin', respectively) and subsequently characterised and synthesized by groups at the Cleveland Clinic and Ciba laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.

Call and Post

Another example of advocacy took place in 1982, with a scathing editorial in support of Cleveland real estate developer Winston E. Willis, whose properties, located near University Circle, had been targeted by the Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University, and University Hospitals for expansion.

Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

Shortly after, the college began creating two new extension campuses, one in partnership with OhioHealth in Dublin, Ohio, and one in partnership with Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.