Health Amplified Innovation at Cleveland Clinic

In this supersized episode of Health Amplified, Drs. Morris & Saklecha sit down with five different experts from Cleveland Clinic’s Emergency Medicine Institute – Bryan Graham, DO; James Mark, MD; Steve Meldon, MD; Jason Milk, MD; and Chris O’Rourke. Each segment of their discussion covers a different aspect of innovation in emergency services, from new payment models to the institution of geriatric emergency departments and the management of COVID-19.

Continuing to celebrate Cleveland Clinic’s Centennial, Dr. Morris chats with world-renowned micro-surgeon and transplant pioneer Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, Professor of Orthopaedics and Director of Microsurgery Research, University of Illinois at Chicago. In this episode, the two discuss the years of innovation and research that led to her execution of the world’s first face transplant at Cleveland Clinic, and the transplant advancements that have followed – including Dr. Siemionow's current work at UIC.

To celebrate the centennial of Cleveland Clinic’s founding, Drs. Morris & Saklecha are sitting down with prolific innovators and figures in Cleveland Clinic history. In the first part of this series they speak with Chris Coburn, the Founding Executive Director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations and current Chief Innovation Officer at Mass General Brigham, to discuss the establishment of the enterprise’s commercialization arm, the deep-seated culture of innovation at Cleveland Clinic, and his current efforts at Mass General Brigham.

Drs. Morris & Saklecha talk with Dr. Robert Wyllie, Chief of Medical Operations, in this episode. They discuss activating the command center to tackle COVID-19, the current use of business analytics and geospatial data to track progression of the virus, emergence of the new vaccine, and the pandemic’s intersection with healthcare disparities.

As Chief of Operations at Cleveland Clinic, Bill Peacock played a key role in the organization’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Listen in this episode as he discusses the beginning of the pandemic, organizing the command center, and how his military experience helped inform his decisions.