Richard Shewbridge, MD, will serve as Cleveland Clinic Medina (Ohio) Hospital's new president, effective July 17.
Here are four takeaways:
1. Dr. Shewbridge serves as vice president of medical operations at Medina Hospital, a role he has held since 2011.
2. Dr. Shewbridge, an endocrinologist, previously served in the United States Air Force Medical Corps.
3. He is a member of the steering committee of the National Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute at Tradition in Biloxi, Miss., which is affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic's Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute.
4. Dr. Shewbridge succeeds Thomas Tulisiak, MD, who left the post to return to practicing medicine full-time within the Cleveland Clinic Medicine Institute.