Cleveland Clinic : Topol new Provost and CAO
Cleveland Clinic : Topol new Provost and CAO
Cleveland, OH - The chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic is taking on an expanded role in research and education for all areas of medicine at that institution: effective March 1, 2001, Dr Eric Topol became the Provost and Chief Academic Officer of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
The position is newly created, born out of a major rearrangement of how research and education are configured at the Clinic, including plans for a new medical school that will admit its first students in the fall of 2003.
Topol hopes to be able to use the model of synergized clinical research and basic science that he and his cardiology department colleagues have developed as a template for how research and education will be practiced throughout the Cleveland Clinic as a whole. "Over the past decade in cardiology here, we've had quite a bit of success, not in any one particular type of research, but in the key coupling of basic science with clinical science. That model has been highly effective because it upgrades the science both ways."
"Gearing up in important areas" is also part of Topol's plan. "We'll be pushing genomics very hard. Every department will have to have a genomics strategy."
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I will still have a key presence in leading our cardiology department; it'll be an interesting and enjoyable balancing act.
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Topol will remain chairman of cardiology, a post he has held for the past 10 years, and admits that his new role will carry "fairly significant added responsibility." Cardiology is presently the largest department at the Cleveland Clinic.
Before taking over the position, Topol divided his time more or less equally between his clinical duties and his administrative and research obligations; his new current commitments will require him to do what he calls some "significant reallocation." He still plans to spend one day a week in the cath lab, and will continue to spend every January in the coronary care unit. He likely will cut back on his outpatient clinical responsibilities and, instead of spending the other half of his time on the cardiology program, he plans to look after the broader research objectives of the Clinic.
"I will still have a key presence in leading our cardiology department; it'll be an interesting and enjoyable balancing act."
[Dr Topol is editor-in-chief of theheart.org]
Cleveland, OH - The chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic is taking on an expanded role in research and education for all areas of medicine at that institution: effective March 1, 2001, Dr Eric Topol became the Provost and Chief Academic Officer of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
The position is newly created, born out of a major rearrangement of how research and education are configured at the Clinic, including plans for a new medical school that will admit its first students in the fall of 2003.
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Dr Eric Topol, the new Provost and Chief Academic officer of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Source: Cleveland Clinic Foundation) |
Topol hopes to be able to use the model of synergized clinical research and basic science that he and his cardiology department colleagues have developed as a template for how research and education will be practiced throughout the Cleveland Clinic as a whole. "Over the past decade in cardiology here, we've had quite a bit of success, not in any one particular type of research, but in the key coupling of basic science with clinical science. That model has been highly effective because it upgrades the science both ways."
"Gearing up in important areas" is also part of Topol's plan. "We'll be pushing genomics very hard. Every department will have to have a genomics strategy."
Â
I will still have a key presence in leading our cardiology department; it'll be an interesting and enjoyable balancing act.
Â
Topol will remain chairman of cardiology, a post he has held for the past 10 years, and admits that his new role will carry "fairly significant added responsibility." Cardiology is presently the largest department at the Cleveland Clinic.
Before taking over the position, Topol divided his time more or less equally between his clinical duties and his administrative and research obligations; his new current commitments will require him to do what he calls some "significant reallocation." He still plans to spend one day a week in the cath lab, and will continue to spend every January in the coronary care unit. He likely will cut back on his outpatient clinical responsibilities and, instead of spending the other half of his time on the cardiology program, he plans to look after the broader research objectives of the Clinic.
"I will still have a key presence in leading our cardiology department; it'll be an interesting and enjoyable balancing act."
[Dr Topol is editor-in-chief of theheart.org]
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