In The News
May 17, 2012 The Associated Press
Notre Dame to collaborate with Cleveland Clinic
The University of Notre Dame and the Cleveland Clinic announced a partnership Thursday to develop and market medical technology and innovations, marking the school's latest step to strengthen its reputation as a research institution.
Notre Dame research vice president Robert Bernhard said the collaboration with the well-known academic hospital will help move ideas and technology from the school to the marketplace faster, thanks to the clinic's commercialization arm. The partnership also will help the school make better decisions about what technology to market, he said.
April 26, 2012 FierceHealthcare
Q&A: Cleveland Clinic CEO Dishes on His Expansion Goals
What is one of the leading healthcare institutions working on? Expanding. FierceHealthcare caught up with Cleveland Clinic President & CEO Toby Cosgrove, M.D., about recent affiliations, its venture to open up shop in Abu Dhabi and partnerships for its innovations business. Hear why the organization thinks of itself as a caregiver, first and foremost, and why cost savings shouldn't be an excuse to cut corners.
March, 2012 Cleveland Clinic Innovations Newsletter Lead the Way
February 22, 2012 Plain Dealer
Cleveland Clinic Extends Innovation Collaboration
The Cleveland Clinic is pairing with New York's North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System to share its expertise in developing and marketing medical innovations. The deal, the value of which is not being disclosed, is the second such collaboration the Clinic has formed and possibly the beginning of a "national innovation alliance," said Chris Coburn, executive director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations.
January 20, 2012 Healthymagination
Top Medical Innovations for 2012
From the thousands of new advances in modern medicine, a panel of physicians from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) was given the daunting task of choosing the 10 innovations that would shape healthcare in the coming year. But they rose to the task, revealing their “Top 10” choices at the 9th Annual Medical Innovation Summit in Cleveland in October 2011. As in past years, this year’s Summit convened some 1,000 researchers, healthcare executives and other medical leaders to share ideas, breakthroughs and challenges in medical technology.
December 22, 2011 Forbes
Healthcare Innovators: The Past Year And A Look Ahead
I welcome back my colleague Ken Perlman to share his outlook on the healthcare organizations that are poised to make big innovations in the coming year.
I know of many organizations - companies, institutes, non-governmental organizations, public agencies and institutions - that are doing amazing work and charting new directions. I wanted to discuss a few that have come across my personal radar. I believe healthcare will be a core area of new strategies, technologies, and innovation next year.
December 9, 2011 The Plain Dealer
Unlikely friendship brings $10 million donation to Cleveland Clinic
It was a chance meeting at the historic Greenbrier resort, deep in West Virginia's mountains, that yielded a $10 million donation aimed at spurring economic development in Northeast Ohio. Coal-mining and farming magnate James C. Justice II, along with his wife, Cathy, confirmed this week that they are giving $10 million to Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the commercialization and corporate venture arm of Northeast Ohio's largest health system.
November 2011 The Plain Dealer
Tales from The Heart
A look inside Cleveland Clinic's Heart & Vascular Institute
May 11, 2011 Crain's Cleveland Business
Cleveland Clinic's spinoff Explorys Inc. raises $11.5 million from investors
Cleveland Clinic spinoff Explorys Inc. has raised $11.5 million that should help the data technology firm double the size of its staff by the end of 2011, said Charlie Lougheed, president and chief technology officer of the Cleveland company. The investment was led by Austin Ventures of Austin, Texas, and Foundation Medical Partners of Rowayton, Conn.
April 26, 2011 PRNewswire
Juventas Therapeutics Completes Successful Phase I Clinical Trial for JVS-100 in Treatment of Patients with Heart Failure
Juventas Therapeutics, a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company developing novel therapies for cardiovascular disease, announces that it has successfully completed its Phase I clinical trial evaluating the safety and preliminary efficacy of JVS-100 for treatment of patients with heart failure. Complete results from the trial will be reported at the 2011 Annual Meeting for the American Society for Gene & Cell Therapy on May 19th in Seattle, WA.
March 30, 2011 Crain's Cleveland Business
Cleveland HeartLab names VP of clinical laboratory operations
Cleveland HeartLab LLC has named Glenn A. Gershon vice president of clinical laboratory operations and research and development. Mr. Gershon most recently was vice president of laboratory operations, quality and regulatory affairs, and research and development at Athena Diagnostics Inc. of Worcester, Mass., a specialty clinical reference laboratory with a catalog of nearly 400 tests.
February 4, 2011 Medical Design
Innovative Collaboration
The Cleveland Clinic and MedStar Health, with hospitals in Maryland and Washington, DC, announced plans to collaborate on medical inventions and innovations. The alliance is said to be the first of its kind between two large US health systems.
January 24, 2011 The Plain Dealer
Prominent hand surgeon returns to Clinic to lead Innovations unit: Cleveland Portraits
Dr. Thomas Graham has more than two dozen patents in his field, including the most commonly used elbow-replacement system on the market. He will use his expertise to help turn the ideas of Clinic physicians into marketable products.
January 11, 2011 The Plain Dealer
Cleveland Clinic to help D.C. - area hospital system market its medical inventions
Today the Cleveland Clinic begins sharing its expertise in developing and marketing medical inventions with a hospital system in the nation's capital.
January 11, 2011 PRNewswire
Cleveland Clinic and MedStar Health Form Collaborative Innovation Alliance
Cleveland Clinic and MedStar Health have agreed to create an Innovation Alliance to benefit patients through collaborative innovation projects, research, clinical investigation, and commercialization application.
January 10, 2011 Washington Post
Cleveland Clinic, MedStar join forces to move medical technologies to market
The Cleveland Clinic, one of the country's most prominent medical research centers, and MedStar Health, the largest health-care provider in Maryland and the Washington region, will collaborate to bring medical inventions to market, according to a plan to be announced Tuesday.
November 10, 2010 Cleveland.com
The mobile health care revolution: better innovation, better solutions,
better value, better health: William A. Hawkins III
November 6, 2010 Blogspot.com
2010 Medical Innovation Summit
Attendee perspective
November 5, 2010 The Today Show, NBC
Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2011
Dr. Roshini Raj talks to TODAY's Ann Curry about some groundbreaking medical innovations for 2011, including drugs for cancer, hepatitis and multiple sclerosis
November 3, 2010 The Plain Dealer
Cleveland Clinic announces its top 10 medical innovations of the year
A radioactive dye that can detect and highlight brain plaques that signal Alzheimer's disease is the medical innovation of the year, chosen from more than
90 candidates by physicians at the Cleveland Clinic.
November 3, 2010 Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo
Eli Lilly Tackles Diabetes
The number of Americans with diabetes is expected to double or triple by 2050, with John Lechleiter, Eli Lilly chairman and CEO.
November 3, 2010 The Plain Dealer
Lilly CEO Calls for a 'Wave of Invention' to Reduce the Toll of Diabetes
Lechleiter Addresses the Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit
November 1, 2010 Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo
Stryker in Focus
Can biotech, pharma and device companies devise an innovative
response to the diabetes epidemic and profit at the same time? Stryker CEO Steve MacMillan, discusses the topic with CNBC.
November 1, 2010 The Plain Dealer
2010 Medical Innovation Summit
Meeting to focus on need and opportunity of obesity, diabetes
September 21, 2010 Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Jeffrey Friedman Receives Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced today that Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator Jeffrey M. Friedman of Rockefeller University and
Douglas Coleman of The Jackson Laboratory will share the 2010 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.
February 22, 2010 General Electric
Bringing World Class Innovation to Market
Marc Harrison MD Chief Medical Operations Officer, Cleveland Clinic
Chris Coburn, Executive Director of Innovations, Cleveland Clinic
December 5, 2009 The Jerusalem Post
Israeli Mini-Sleep Lab Cited
An Israeli-developed "miniature sleep lab" worn on the wrist and one finger to diagnose and identify the source of sleep
problems has been named one of the 10 best medical innovations for 2010 by the Cleveland Clinic, one of the best-known
medical facilities in the world.
October 08, 2009 Forbes
Medicine's Big Bottleneck
If health care companies and the U.S. government do not tread carefully, concerns about the cost of developing and
providing treatments could derail medical innovation. That was the consensus among top industry and regulatory figures
yesterday during speeches and interviews at the Medical Innovations Summit at the Cleveland Clinic.
October 08, 2009 Nasdaq
Doctors, Drug Executives Say Reform Won't Cure Health Care's Ills
Many attendees at the Cleveland Clinic's annual summit agreed that the latest reform proposals would help expand
health-insurance coverage. But they're skeptical that reform, as outlined in legislation seen as having the best chance
of passage, will directly lead to more efficient delivery of health care or to controlling soaring costs.
October 07,2009 The Plain Dealer
Cleveland Clinic summit names Top 10 medical innovations predicted for 2010
That's how it came to biomedical engineer Jay Alberts, whose research into treating Parkinson's Disease symptoms is
being recognized today by the Cleveland Clinic as one of the Top 10 medical innovations for 2010.
October 07, 2009 The Wall Street Journal
Pharma CEOs: Tax Soda, Cap Malpractice, Pay for Prevention
Schering-Plough CEO Fred Hassan called for taxes on sugary soft drinks, and argued for higher payments from people with
unhealthy behavior. "I feel if they're adding to the cost of the system, there has to be a level of responsibility,"
Hassan (pictured) said. (Here's more on the soda-tax debate, and on Coca-Cola's plan to put a calorie-count on the front of its packages.)
October 07, 2009 News Channel 5
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October 07, 2009 AstraZeneca
Improving the prognosis: cancer cures through innovation
CEO, David Brennan, delivered a speech titled "Improving the prognosis: cancer cures through innovation" at the 2009 Medical
Innovation Summit, a major industry conference run by the internationally renowned Cleveland Clinic.
October 06, 2009 The Wall Street Journal
Schering CEO Warns Of Loss Of Innovation In Drug Cos' Deals
A cash crunch among smaller drug developers has created more buying opportunities for large pharmaceutical companies, but
Schering-Plough Corp.'s (SGP) leader says that's not always good for medical innovation.
October 06, 2009 The Wall Street Journal
IBM CEO Sees Big Opportunity In Health-Care Technology >IBM
The chief executive of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) sees a huge business opportunity in making the U.S. health-care
system more efficient. "Someone is going to drive incredible progress," IBM Chief Executive Sam Palmisano told a conference
on medical innovation at the Cleveland Clinic Tuesday. "Someone is going to unlock this incredible economic opportunity. And I suggest,
why shouldn't it be us?"
October 06, 2009 IBM
A smarter healthcare system: its time has come
I'm also humbled-as I look out on a room filled with such extraordinary depth and breadth of expertise... and then think about speaking on
a topic in which I am decidedly not an expert. Fortunately, my company has many who are. IBM has deep involvement in your world, on at
least three different levels.
October 05, 2009 Medical Device Daily
Summit expected to have 'all the ingredients' for unique gathering
The 7th annual Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit which begins today, will have "all the ingredients" for a truly
unique gathering, Chris Coburn told Medical Device Daily. Coburn, the executive director of CCF Innovations - the technology arm of
the Cleveland Clinic - expects this year's meeting to be "terrific" for first-time attendees as well as those who have
attended the event since its 2003 beginning. As in past years, the summit is taking place at the InterContinental Hotel and Conference Center.
October 01, 2009 CNBC
IBM CEO, FDA Commissioner and Top Leaders at Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovation Summit
The Clinic's Medical Innovation Summit is unprecedented in health care. It draws 900 decision-makers from throughout the industry for
a three-day dialogue on the future of innovation. At a time of fundamental change in the health care system, this gathering will examine
the newest cancer-fighting technologies as well as what the future prospects are for innovation in a post-reform era.
July 01, 2009 Medical Design
One-stop, real-time networking, and more
You shouldn't miss the Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit - that's my unsolicited, unbiased opinion. The Summit is truly a rare
opportunity to learn firsthand from medical-device executives, researchers, investors, surgeons, and even the FDA commissioner herself.
Attendees also can witness a live robotic-assisted single-port kidney removal and treatment of a brain tumor using a hypothermic device.
June 25, 2009 Crain's Cleveland Business
Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovation Summit to focus on cancer
Cancer therapies and diagnostics, including enhanced drug developments and the consumer market for genetic testing, will be at the
center of the Cleveland Clinic's 7th Annual Medical Innovation Summit, set for Oct. 5-7.