Dr. Susannah Rose has been appointed Director of Bioethics Research and Policy in the Department of Bioethics at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Rose is a national leader of cutting-edge research in the areas of end-of-life care and in conflicts of interest.

In this leadership role, she will help advance research and ethics public policy activities of the Bioethics Department by building innovative interdisciplinary scholarship initiatives. These efforts are particularly timely given that health care in the U.S. is facing new ethical and policy challenges.

Dr. Rose joined the Professional Staff at Cleveland Clinic three years ago, and holds joint appointments with the Taussig Cancer Institute and the Medicine Institute. She also holds a faculty appointment at the Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, with adjunct appointments at the Weatherhead School of Management and at Harvard University’s School of Public Health. She is currently a Cleveland Clinic Clinical Research Scholar (administered through the NIH Clinical & Translational Science Collaborative, CTSC), which supports Dr. Rose’s research in end-of-life care.

Dr. Rose completed her PhD in Health Policy at Harvard University and prior to joining the Clinic, she held pre- and post-doctoral fellowships at the Massachusetts General Hospital sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIMH and NCI). Dr. Rose is a Lab Committee member at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, where she was also a Graduate Fellow (2008-2009) and a Lab Fellow (2010-2014). She received a MS in Social Work at Columbia University and a MS in Bioethics at Union College/Albany Medical Center. Before enrolling in her doctoral program, she served as a clinical oncology social worker and researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York.

The appointment is effective October 1.