Edgar B. Jackson Jr., M.D. Endowed Chair for Clinical Excellence and Diversity 
The Edgar B. Jackson, Jr., M.D., Endowed Chair for Clinical Excellence and Diversity, dedicated in April 2004, is the only endowed permanent staff position in an academic medical center in the United States that has been established to promote diversity of academic faculty – and it is right here at University Hospitals. The Chair offers a physician at University Hospitals the opportunity to mentor and serve as a role model for minority medical students and post-graduate trainees.
The Edgar B. Jackson, Jr., M.D. Endowed Chair was dedicated to enable University Hospitals to recruit a physician who would continue Dr. Jackson's legacy of clinical excellence and initiatives that promote the academic medical profession among minorities, particularly African Americans. University Hospitals and local community members raised $1.5 million in contributing to the creation of the Chair.
The Chair honors the esteemed Edgar B. Jackson, Jr., M.D., Chief of Staff Emeritus and Senior Advisor to the Presidents and CEOs of both University Hospitals and University Hospitals Case Medical Center.
In 2005,
Richard E. Grant, M.D. was named the first Chairholder of the Edgar B. Jackson, Jr., M.D. Endowed Chair. Dr. Grant is a nationally respected clinical educator and role model who specializes in orthopedic surgery. He is the first African American orthopedic surgeon to join the full-time faculty of University Hospitals of Cleveland.
The David Satcher Clerkship The David Satcher Clerkship, created in 1991, is an innovative program that exposes minority medical students to career opportunities in academic medical centers and encourages residents and fellows from ethnic minorities to pursue leadership roles in health care. The pipeline program is committed to building the number of minority residents, fellows, and ultimately minority faculty who serve as a strong representation of the community serviced by University Hospitals. Since the inception of this clerkship, we have increased minority residents and fellows from 1.8 percent to 12 percent (we have remained at over 10 percent since 1994).
Committment to the Community
University Hospitals is proud and hopeful as we work to improve our ability to understand the needs of – and effectively communicate with – all the patients, families and communities we serve. University Hospitals and the healthcare industry in general, need to continue to do more to encourage and support diversity at senior administrative levels. We are actively planning for and implementing changes contributing to this effort.
We will elevate those who are different, emphasize the underemphasized among us, and provide a living example of diversity at every level of this organization. It is the foremost priority of this office to show the world that University Hospitals is truly a multitude of unique individuals joined together as one in a common goal: providing the highest-quality health care in the world.
Appreciating diversity is no more complicated than taking the time to heal, to teach and to discover the uniqueness in each other. University Hospitals hopes that our culture of diversity will teach a new corporate attitude to those around us, healing others and discovering what makes each of our patients and personnel uniquely important to us and to our community.
Additional Commitments to the CommunityOtis Moss, Jr. Medical Center
Dare to C.A.R.E. Program
Support for the Physically Challenged