Inspirations and Insights

Dr. Michelle Medina is currently the Associate Chief of Clinical Operations within Cleveland Clinic Community Health, overseeing practice operations and professional staff affairs across 3 primary care departments, Hospital Medicine, Medical Care at Home, Wellness, Functional Medicine and Center for Personalized Genomics. She has served in various leadership positions at Cleveland Clinic, among them as a clinical leader within the Quality Alliance (Cleveland Clinic’s clinically integrated network), pediatric champion of population health and as Department Chair of Primary Care Pediatrics. In this episode Dr. Medina speaks with me about her family life growing up in the Philippines and how her work in rural Alabama framed her understanding of how community context and systems influence the care we provide and continues to inform her work at Cleveland Clinic. A successful physician leader, she shares how liberating and empowering it is to lead with vulnerability and how vulnerability generates creative thinking and cohesive teams.