Chief Health Equity Officer
MetroHealth
Charles Modlin, M.D., MBA, serves as the inaugural Vice President & Chief Health Equity Officer at MetroHealth (Cleveland, Ohio) where he provides operational and thought leadership, perspective, and vision on the multi-dimensional matters of diversity and health equity through the lens of a clinician. His role is key to the development of programs to promote and strengthen an inclusive and diverse culture and promote health equity for all. He also practices clinical urology at MetroHealth.
Dr. Modlin is also leading a national initiative to raise awareness of the crisis of Health Inequities/Disparities and to implement nationwide best practices to address elimination of health disparities/inequities.
Dr. Modlin is formerly a 27+-year veteran and member of Cleveland Clinic’s Surgical Staff,
Associate Professor of Surgery, and is a Kidney Transplant Surgeon & Urologist and served on
Cleveland Clinic’s Board of Governors, Board of Directors and Board of Trustees and served as
the elected President of the Medical Staff of Cleveland Clinic. He founded Cleveland Clinic’s
Minority Men’s Health Center (MMHC) and in 2003 established Cleveland Clinic’s famed Annual
Minority Men’s Health Fair (which as of 2022 he established at MetroHealth) that has provided
free health screenings, health examinations and health education to thousands of
predominantly African American males for the early detection of disease to enhance and save
lives. In 2011, he was named by The Atlanta Post as one of the Top 21 Black Doctors in
America. Dr. Modlin was the First African American Staff Urologist in the History of Cleveland
Clinic AND the First and Only ever Black Transplant Surgeon in the History of Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Modlin graduated from Northwestern University and Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine, completed a six-year residency in Urologic Surgery at New York
University, a three-year fellowship in kidney transplantation surgery at Cleveland Clinic and
joined the Cleveland Clinic Staff in 1996. He has completed organizational leadership
development training certification at the Harvard Business School.
Dr. Modlin is a noted national leader for the elimination of health disparities and
promotion of health equity. Honors include Appointment to the Ohio Commission on Minority
Health by two Ohio Governors, Northwestern University Presidential Alumni Medal, the
Inaugural 2009 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Distinguished
Humanitarianism in Medicine Award, and the 2023 Northwestern University Alumni Medal (which represents Northwestern’s Highest Alumni Honor), 2007 MLK Greater Cleveland Partnership Community Service Award, Call & Post 100 Top Influential Leaders, numerous Cleveland Magazine Best Doctors recognitions, recognition in the Inaugural Edition of Who’s Who in Black Cleveland as One of Cleveland’s Most Interesting, and the prestigious 2015 Black Professional Association Black Professional of the Year recognition, The Soul of Philanthropy Award in 2021, among many other recognitions and awards. Governor Mike DeWine in March 2020 appointed Dr. Modlin to serve on the Ohio Governor’s Minority Covid-19 Strike Force (MSF) where he chaired the Education, Communications & Outreach Subcommittee.
Masters of Care Delivery: Lifting the Health and Well-Being of Our Communities (MSTR3)
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT