Our Team: Commercialization Council
Nancy M. Albert PhD, CCNS, CCRN, CNA,
Director of Nursing Research
and Innovation
Director of Nursing Research and Innovation in the Nursing Institute and Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Kaufman Center for Heart Failure at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr Albert is also Adjunct Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University, Bolton School of Nursing in Cleveland Ohio. Nancy is Immediate Past... Continue Reading
Ernest Borden, MD, Vice-Chair, Taussig Cancer Center
Ernest Borden obtained his medical degree from Duke University and joined Cleveland Clinic in 1998 to direct the Center for Cancer Drug Discovery and Development. In 2005 the 5 laboratories in the Case Western Reserve Cleveland Clinic College of Medicine were integrated... Continue Reading
Thomas Daly, MD,
Section Head, Immunopathology and Director, Center
for Test Development,Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute
Dr. Daly received his medical degree from Washington University in St Louis, and residency training in Clinical Pathology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. After completing his training in Clinical Pathology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. After completing his training... Continue Reading
Paul DiCorleto, PhD, Sherwin-Page Chair, Lerner Research Institute
Paul E. DiCorleto, Ph.D., is the Chair of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The Lerner Research Institute (LRI) is home to over 160 principal investigators and 1500 employees.... Continue Reading
Joseph F. Foss, MD, Staff, Director of Clinical Research, Anesthesiology
Dr. Foss came to the Cleveland Clinic in 2005. He is currently active in developing the research program in the Department of General Anesthesiology and is a vice-chair for the Cleveland Clinic Institutional Review Board. As the Director of Clinical Research for the Department he works closely with... Continue Reading
Joe Hollyfield, PhD,
Director, Foundation Fighting Blindness Research
Center, Cole Eye Institute
Joe Hollyfield, PhD, is Director, Foundation Fighting Blindness Research Center and Professor of Ophthalmology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He is also a member of the Graduate School Faculty, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio... Continue Reading
Samir Kapadia, MD, Director of the Sones Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
Samir Kapadia, MD, is Director of the Sones Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories in the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine. He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology and interventional cardiology. As an interventional cardiologist, Dr. Kapadia has a special interest in complex coronary... Continue Reading
Micheal Kattan, PhD,
Chairman of the Department of Quantitative
Health Sciences, Cole Eye Institute
Micheal Kattan, PhD, is Chairman of the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences and Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Kattan has a Ph.D. in management information systems with a minor in statistitics. He also holds an MBA... Continue Reading
Vinod Labhasetwar, PhD, Staff, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Vinod Labhasetwar, PhD, Staff, Department of Biomedical Engineering, received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Nagpur University in India. He was a staff scientist at the National Institute of Immunology in New Delhi (1988-90) before coming to the United States as a postdoctoral... Continue Reading
Andre Machado, MD, PhD,
Director, Center for Neurological
Restoration, Neurological Institute
Dr. Machado is the Director of the Center for Neurological Restoration in the Neurological Institute. Dr. Machado performs deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery with Parkinson's disease, tremor, dystonia and psychiatric disorders as well as surgical procedures for patients with intractable pain syndromes and spasticity. Dr. Machado received his... Continue Reading
Roger Macklis, MD, Radiation Oncology
Dr. Macklis received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. He did his internship at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, MA and completed his residency at the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy at Harvard Medical School. His specialty interests include... Continue Reading
Frank Papay, MD, Chair, Dermatology and Plastic Surgery Institute
Frank Papay, MD, is an accomplished surgeon, who has been recognized as one of the nation's Best Doctor specializing in plastic surgery by Castle Connolly. He is the current chairman of the Cleveland Clinic's Dermatology and Plastic Surgery Institute and associate professor of surgery, Lerner... Continue Reading
Michael Phillips, MD, Staff, Diagnostic Radiology
Dr. Phillips, a member of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Section of Neuroradiology, since 2002, has lectured nationally and internationally on radiology-related topics. As a member of the Imaging Institute, he serves as the Head of of the Section of Imaging Sciences... Continue Reading
Richard Ransohoff, MD, MPH, Associate Chief of Staff
Dr. Ransohoff is Director of the Neuroinflammation Research Center in the Dept. of Neurosciences of the Lerner Research Institute, Professor of Molecular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and Staff Neurologist in the Mellen Center for MS Treatment and Research, both at... Continue Reading
Ellen S. Rome, MD, MPH, Associate Chief of Staff
Dr. Rome currently serves as Associate Chief of Staff and as Head of the Section of Adolescent Medicine. She is a board certified pediatrician who was also among the first in the United States to be board certified in Adolescent Medicine. Dr. Rome received her undergraduate... Continue Reading
Raul Rosenthal, MD, FACS, Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Rosenthal is a graduate of the Medical School in Rosario , Argentina. Trained as a general surgeon at the Provincial Hospital in Rosario Argentina between 1981 and 1983.Emigrated to Germany to repeat medical degree and general surgical residency training between 1983 and 1990. Revalidated the MD degree and obtained title of general surgeon... Continue Reading
Yogen Saunthararajah MD,
Associate Staff in the Department of Hematologic
Oncology and Blood Disorders
Dr. Saunthararajah is Associate Staff in the Department of Hematologic Oncology and Blood Disorders with a secondary appointment in the Department of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research at the Taussig Cancer Institute, and an Associate Professor and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at CWRU... Continue Reading
Jonathan Schaffer, MD, Orthopedics
Dr. Schaffer is Technology and Systems Chief in the Adult Reconstruction Section and leads the Advanced Operative Technology Group in the Orthopaedic Clinical Research Center and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Cleveland Clinic. His clinical interests include the... Continue Reading
Amit N. Shah, M.D., M.H.Sc, Director of MedStar Inventor Services
In this role, Amit leads a system-wide initiative to advance the best ideas of MedStar associates from concept to reality, transforming inventions into commercial products and services. Amit is an attending physician with MedStar Emergency Physicians and serves on the faculty of Georgetown University School... Continue Reading
William Smith, D. Eng. Biomedical Engineering
Before joining the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, he worked as an aerospace engineer at TRW, a machine tool engineer at Warner and Swasey, and as a machinist for several organizations. Dr. Smith has published extensively on blood pump devices and technology, and holds a... Continue Reading
Edward Soltesz, MD,
Specialize in Thoracic and Cardiovascular
Surgery and Transplant Medicine
Edward Soltesz MD, is part of a multidisciplinary team of health care providers who specialize in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery and transplant medicine. Dr. Soltesz's health care team guides the treatment and coordination of patient care. Dr. Soltesz completed an additional fellowship in complex aortic and endovascular surgery at Cleveland Clinic... Continue Reading
Neil J. Weissman, MD, FACC, President, MedStar Health Research Institute
Neil J. Weissman, MD, FACC, is president for MedStar Health Research Institute, professor of medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine and director of the ultrasound core laboratories at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C... Continue Reading
Karl West, Director, Medical Device Solutions
Karl West is Cleveland Clinic’s Director of Medical Device Solutions. He has been in this position since April of 2010. Karl has worked at the Clinic for more than nine years in the Department of Biomedical Engineering developing medical devices. He is an expert in device design with a concentration in aortic replacement devices such as... Continue Reading