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Jerome (jerry) L. Belinson

Jerome (jerry) L. Belinson MD

Gynecologic Oncology
Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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Dr. Belinson founded Preventive Oncology International Inc. in 1997 (POI) and since has served as President. Dr. Belinson received the 2004 distinguished graduate Citation of Merit from the University of Missouri Medical School, the Bruce Hubbard Stewart award for humanitarianism in medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, and during his years of clinical practice was consistently listed among the “Best Doctors in America”. He has dedicated his career to advancing the screening and treatment of gynecologic cancers. Dr. Belinson has worked with medically underserved populations in several countries, and he devoted more than 20 years in multiple provinces throughout rural China.

In 2010 he received the “Chinese Friendship Award” at the People's Congress, the highest award China gives to a foreigner for contributions to the economic and social progress of China. Dr. Belinson is the former Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1990-2000) and currently serves as a Professor of Surgery with the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.

Belinson was trained in Ob/Gyn at Columbia University’s Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, and as a fellow in Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital. Dr. Belinson began the first formal gynecologic oncology service at the University of Vermont in 1977. He has previously held full professorships at the University of Vermont (tenured) and The Ohio State University. He was voted teacher of the year at the University of Vermont, and on two occasions at the Cleveland Clinic.