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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★National Academy of Medicine Election (2025) - highest honor in health/medicine
★2026 Maltz Heritage Award recipient for global healthcare leadership
★Cleveland Clinic Innovation Award (2006, 2007)
★Patent holder for minimally invasive cardiac surgery system (2005)
★Morton L. Mandel CEO Chair endowment holder
Notable Facts
→CEO of $15 billion Cleveland Clinic health system with 83,000+ employees globally
→Leads 23 hospitals and 300+ outpatient locations across 3 continents
→Prolific researcher with 140+ peer-reviewed publications and patent holder
→Built world's largest robotic heart surgery program at Cleveland Clinic
→First CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, expanding US healthcare internationally
→Native of Croatia, speaks English, German, and Croatian
→Previously cardiac surgeon at Harvard/Brigham and Women's Hospital
→Board member of GE HealthCare and co-chair of US-UAE Business Council
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