Charles S. Modlin, Jr., M.D., MBA
Executive Director of Minority Health, Cleveland Clinic
Charles S. Modlin, Jr., M.D., MBA, is a Kidney Transplant Surgeon, board-certified Urologist and Founder and Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Minority Men’s Health Center and is Executive Director of Minority Health at Cleveland Clinic, Medical Staff Officer and member of the Cleveland Clinic Board of Trustees.
He received his undergraduate and medical degree from Northwestern University in Chicago. He completed a six-year residency in General & Urological Surgery at New York University and a three-year fellowship in kidney transplantation surgery at Cleveland Clinic, following which he joined the staff at Cleveland Clinic in 1996.
Dr. Modlin developed the Cleveland Clinic Minority Men’s Health Center in 2003, (which includes the celebrated Annual Minority Men’s Health Fair), to address the specific healthcare needs and health disparities disproportionately afflicting minority and underserved males. The center provides direct patient care and education, outreach and research on the elimination of health disparities, and provides mentorship to students in order to promote the health professions as career options.
Dr. Modlin is also an ardent national advocate, leader and public speaker for the elimination of health disparities and has received numerous local, state and national recognitions for his work, including the Cleveland Dr. MLK Jr. Individual Community Service Award in 2007, as well as gubernatorial appointment to the Board of the Ohio Commission on Minority Health, Cleveland Mayoral and City Council Proclamations, Cleveland Clinic’s highest Humanitarianism in Medicine Award, the Bruce Hubbard Stewart Award, selection by the Atlanta Journal as among the Top 21 Black Doctors in America in 2011, inclusion in Cleveland Magazine’s list of Top Doctors, recognition in Who’s Who In Black Cleveland, among many other recognitions.
He has published several scientific publications and book chapters. Dr. Modlin is also a member of the ASTS Multicultural Committee and was instrumental in the inception of LifeBanc of Ohio’s Multicultural Committee. Dr. Modlin is Chairman of the 2015 National Kidney Foundation Kidney Walk and was instrumental in helping secure the 2016 Transplant Games of America selecting Cleveland as its host city.
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