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Mark D. Carlson, professor of medicine at CWRU's School of Medicine
and vice chairman of medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland,
has been recommended for the 2002-2005 Robert Wood Johnson Health
Policy Fellowship Program
 The
program provides an opportunity for physicians and other health
professionals to work and study in Washington, D.C.; to gain an
understanding of how health policy is developed; to contribute
to the formulation of new policies and programs by working on
congressional staffs writing policy; and to grow in their careers
as leaders in academic health centers and in health policy.Initiated
in 1973, the program is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(RWJF) and conducted by the Institute of Medicine.
Carlson, a resident of Cleveland Heights, is a cardiologist
with expertise in electrophysiology, arrhythmias and radiofrequency
catheter ablation. He has been with CWRU and UHC since 1988. He
earned his medical degree at the University of Kansas and trained
in cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He
also has a long-standing interest in health policy. He holds a
master's degree in public policy from Duke University.
"I've contributed to medicine through research and clinical care
and am interested in contributing at the policy level," he said.
"The RWJ Health Policy Fellowship will provide me with the experience
and the opportunity to do so."
Carlson is the fifth faculty member from the CWRU School of Medicine
who has been sponsored for this prestigious program. The others
have been Jerome Paulson, M.D., Department of Pediatrics; Lynn
Cates, M.D., Department of Pediatrics; David Stevens, M.D., former
vice dean of the CWRU medical school and former Department of
Medicine member; and Mary Mazanec, M.D., J.D., Department of Medicine.
Carlson was nominated for this honor by Nathan A. Berger, M.D.,
dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for medical
affairs at CWRU.
CWRU enjoys a success with this program on par with a select
group of other major universities and medical schools, including
Harvard, Yale, the University of Colorado, University of Alabama-Birmingham
and the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine and Dentistry.
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