John Bartholomew MD, MSVM, FACC

John R. Bartholomew, MD, is Director of the Thrombosis Center and a staff physician in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute at Cleveland Clinic. He has a joint appointment with the Department of Hematology/Oncology. Dr. Bartholomew is board-certified as a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Vascular Medicine. He is a Professor of Medicine for the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Bartholomew completed his undergraduate work at Central Michigan University, and received his medical degree from the Autonomous Universidad De Guadalajara, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He completed his internship and residency at Maryland General Hospital in Baltimore, where he was Chief Resident. Dr. Bartholomew was awarded a fellowship by the Johns Hopkins Hospital and appointed Senior Clinical Fellow in the Division of Hematology. While at Johns Hopkins, he received the William Bell Award for Patient Care.

Prior to joining the Cleveland Clinic in 1988, Dr. Bartholomew was the Assistant Director of Internal Medicine Education at St. Joseph Hospital at Michigan State University, where he was given the Instructor of the Year Award for the Family Practice Residency Program. He also served as Director of the Eastern Michigan Hemophilia Center.