Ardeshir Z. Hashmi MD, MBA, FACP, FNAP, AGSF

Dr. Ardeshir Z. Hashmi, MD, MBA, FACP, FNAP, AGSF, is the Endowed Chair of Geriatric Innovation and Section Chief of the Center for Geriatric Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.

Dr. Hashmi completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at Yale University. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the Yale-Saint Mary’s Hospital in Connecticut, where he served as Chief Medical resident. He then trained at Massachusetts General Hospital as a Clinical and Research Fellow in Geriatrics before becoming Faculty and then Medical Director of MGH Senior Health-Harvard Medicine. Dr. Hashmi subsequently transitioned to the Cleveland Clinic in 2017.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a graduate of the Clinical Process Improvement Leadership Program, and the Value-Based Healthcare Delivery via the Harvard Business School Institute of Strategy& Competitiveness. Dr. Hashmi is also certified as an Advanced Peer Coach through the Cleveland Clinic Center for Excellence in Coaching and Mentoring. He is Co-Chair of the national American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Patient Priorities Care American Geriatrics Society Special Interest Group  (SIG) and a member of the AGS  Health Systems Leadership SIG.

Dr. Hashmi is also a member of the Association of Chiefs and Leaders in General Internal Medicine and serves on the Cleveland Clinic National Consultation Service. He has also been selected for the prestigious Tideswell Emerging Leaders in Aging (ELIA) program in conjunction with the American Geriatrics Society and the University of California, San Francisco.

Under Dr. Hashmi’s leadership, Cleveland Clinic Geriatrics has garnered the following milestones: Age Friendly Health Systems Committed to Care Excellence designation via the Institute for Healthcare Improvement; the highest Geriatrics US News and World Report national rankings in Cleveland Clinic history; national accreditation as a top-tier Level 1 Geriatrics Emergency Department by the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Hashmi’s niche area of interest is the intersection of affordable technology solutions and geriatric population health in the service of our most vulnerable populations.