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Cleveland Clinic Women’s Professional Staff Association
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In celebration of Cleveland Clinic’s centennial, hosts Dr. Cara King and Dr. Mary Rensel share conversations with women doctors at Cleveland Clinic, exploring the highlights and challenges of being a woman in medicine.

  1. Susan J. Rehm, MD, FACP, FIDSA, BCC

    03/01/2024

    Susan J. Rehm, MD, FACP, FIDSA, BCC

    Susan J. Rehm is Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Vice Chair of Infectious Disease, Executive Director of Physician Health, Associate Chief of Staff, and was an elected member of the Board of Governors at Cleveland Clinic. She is a fellow in the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) where she has served on the Board of Directors. She is a Board Certified Coach and is a core faculty member of Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Excellence in Coaching and Mentoring. In this conversation, she shares her journey to Cleveland Clinic and how her long and storied career here has allowed her to transition to many different fulfilling and challenging roles.

    33 min
  2. Allison Vidimos, MD

    01/30/2024

    Allison Vidimos, MD

    Chair of the Department of Dermatology and Professor of Dermatology at Cleveland Clinic for over 18 years, Allison Vidimos, MD, joins Hadley Wood, MD (subbing for our regular hosts) for a conversation about her career and leadership as she she prepares for retirement at the end of 2023. With her signature candor, humor and humility, Allison talks of her competitive family of golfers, starting her professional life as a Pharmacist which then allowed her to fund her medical school education and shares stories of the fateful events that led to where she is today. A skilled surgeon, empathic physician and successful mentor and leader, she is a member of the Board of Directors at the American Board of Dermatology and the Ohio Dermatologic Association. She's an expert consultant to the United States Pharmacopia Compounding Committee and the lead author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, and has authored two textbooks.

    36 min
  3. Michelle Medina, MD

    04/25/2023

    Michelle Medina, MD

    Dr. Michelle Medina is currently the Associate Chief of Clinical Operations within Cleveland Clinic Community Health, overseeing practice operations and professional staff affairs across 3 primary care departments, Hospital Medicine, Medical Care at Home, Wellness, Functional Medicine and Center for Personalized Genomics. She has served in various leadership positions at Cleveland Clinic, among them as a clinical leader within the Quality Alliance (Cleveland Clinic’s clinically integrated network), pediatric champion of population health and as Department Chair of Primary Care Pediatrics. In this episode Dr. Medina speaks with me about her family life growing up in the Philippines and how her work in rural Alabama framed her understanding of how community context and systems influence the care we provide and continues to inform her work at Cleveland Clinic. A successful physician leader, she shares how liberating and empowering it is to lead with vulnerability and how vulnerability generates creative thinking and cohesive teams.

    31 min
  4. Zeina Nahleh, MD

    04/18/2023

    Zeina Nahleh, MD

    Dr. Zeina Nahleh is a breast oncologist and the Chair of the Department of Hematology-Oncology and Director of the Cleveland Clinic Florida Maroone Cancer Center. She has received numerous awards and distinctions and has authored over 50 articles and book chapters in the field of cancer and breast cancer research. Dr. Nahleh has a double board certified in Hematology and Medical Oncology. In our conversation today, Dr. Nahleh reflects on the power of hope, optimism and resiliency that have shaped her career, her leadership and her life. She was born and raised in Beirut, Lebabon amidst civil war and knew early on that she wanted to be a physician. In training, she realized her life experiences gave her great sensitivity and empathy which suited her to care for patients with cancer. She talks about how effective leadership in medicine and parenting benefits a teenager from the same skills of being approachable, building trust and connection and providing constructive feedback for ongoing growth and development.

    34 min
  5. Lisa Yerian, MD

    08/26/2022

    Lisa Yerian, MD

    Lisa Yerian, MD is a trained pathologist and serves as Cleveland Clinic’s Chief Improvement Officer, where she directs, coordinates and evaluates improvement strategies, methods and implementation across the Cleveland Clinic enterprise. Since 2010, she and her team have been building a “culture of improvement” where every caregiver is capable and empowered to make improvements every day in how Cleveland Clinic delivers high quality, safe and affordable care for patients. In this conversation, she shares how her rural Ohio roots inform her passion for this work, and, she reflects on the steps to successfully changing an organizational culture and how she personally “borrowed courage” to move her ideas forward

    35 min
  6. Sumita Khatri, MD

    08/11/2022

    Sumita Khatri, MD

    Dr. Sumita Khatri is a Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Vice Chair of Cleveland Clinic’s Respiratory Institute, Director of the Asthma Center and a practicing Adult Pulmonary and ICU physician. She serves on the national board of the American Lung Association and is founder of FLEX, a leadership development program for women faculty of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She is truly a visionary and a transformational leader and discusses the importance of building credibility and trust with colleagues and patients, and having the confidence to live your purpose with authenticity, humor and empathy.

    34 min
  7. Kandice Kottke Marchant, MD, PhD

    06/09/2022

    Kandice Kottke Marchant, MD, PhD

    Now retired, Kandice Kottke Marchant, MD, PhD, served as Chair of the Institute of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and is Professor of Pathology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. She talks candidly about her experience with grief, the isolation of being a leader and the unprecedented way she stepped down from leadership…which has allowed her to pursue her passion for cheese making and start her next chapter as a small business owner with a flourishing cheese shop on Cleveland’s east side.

    34 min
  8. Deborah L. Benzil, MD

    01/03/2022

    Deborah L. Benzil, MD

    Deborah L. Benzil, MD, FACS, FAANS is the Vice-Chair of Neurosurgery at Cleveland Clinic, Professor of Neurosurgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and a founding member of Women in Neurosugery (WINS). She is widely published on many topics, most pertinent to this conversation, is her 2008 white paper, “The future of neurosurgery: a white paper on the recruitment and retention of women in neurosurgery” which informed the expansion of the Women's Professional Staff Association, years before she was recruited to join Cleveland Clinic.

    33 min
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In celebration of Cleveland Clinic’s centennial, hosts Dr. Cara King and Dr. Mary Rensel share conversations with women doctors at Cleveland Clinic, exploring the highlights and challenges of being a woman in medicine.

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    Cleveland Clinic Women’s Professional Staff Association
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    21
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