Serpil C. Erzurum MD

Serpil Erzurum, MD, is Chair of the Lerner Research Institute of Cleveland Clinic. A member of Cleveland Clinic’s staff since 1993, Dr. Erzurum holds the Alfred Lerner Memorial Chair in Innovative Biomedical Research. A practicing pulmonologist, Dr. Erzurum’s scientific accomplishments have been broad and far-reaching in impact for respiratory medicine. Her contributions and leadership in pulmonary research have led to diagnostic and therapeutic advances in lung diseases, and helped to identify human physiologic adaptive responses to high-altitude hypoxia.

Dr. Erzurum earned her medical degree from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. She did her fellowship training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and postdoctoral training at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, MD.