Donald A. Malone, M.D., (’85), president, Cleveland Clinic Ohio Hospitals and Family Health Centers, will deliver the keynote address at NEOMED’s 2023 Commencement on Saturday, May 6, at E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall.
Dr. Malone will address NEOMED’s largest graduating class ever – 274 students, including three who will receive dual degrees – a more than threefold increase over the 86 members of Dr. Malone’s own graduating class.
Dr. Malone is currently president of the Cleveland Clinic Ohio Hospitals and Family Health Centers. In this role, he sits on the Executive Team and oversees the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus as well as all Ohio Regional Hospitals, Family Health Centers and other ambulatory sites.
Dr. Malone is a professor of psychiatry at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Malone previously served as president of Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital as well as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Cleveland Clinic where he also directed the Center for Behavioral Health. He also serves as chair of the Cleveland Clinic Strategic Space Planning Committee and a member of the Cleveland Clinic Planning Committee. As a student at NEOMED, he was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha. Following his medical school training, he did one year of internship in internal medicine followed by a psychiatric residency at The Massachusetts General Hospital.
He has been with The Cleveland Clinic since 1989. Dr. Malone has been very active in research, education and various local and national committees. He has held positions in the Ohio Psychiatric Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the International Society for Neurostimulation and the American College of Psychiatrists. His research has been primarily in the areas of anxiety disorders, anabolic steroid use and abuse, neuromodulation and Deep Brain Stimulation. He has authored numerous publications in these areas and presented both nationally and internationally.
Read more about Dr. Malone in Ignite magazine
Watch Donald Malone’s appearance on VITALS in April 2022.
The 2023 Commencement will be streamed live on Facebook.