Rendell Ashton MD

Rendell W. Ashton, MD, has been a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician in the Respiratory Institute at the Cleveland Clinic since July 2008. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine and fellowship in pulmonary and critical care at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. He came to Cleveland after three years in the division of pulmonary and critical care at SUNY Upstate in Syracuse, NY.

He has directed the pulmonary/critical care medicine fellowship atthe  Cleveland Clinic since 2010 and helped launch the critical care medicine fellowship in 2010, which he directed until July 2013. He was the president of the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors in 2017-18. His clinical and scholarly interests include many areas of critical care and pulmonary medicine, but particularly respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation, and sepsis. He is also interested in educational scholarship, including medical simulation as a learning tool.