Susannah L. Rose PhD

Susannah Rose joined the Professional Staff at Cleveland Clinic in 2011, served as the Director of Bioethics Research & Policy from 2014 to 2016, and is currently an Associate Chief Experience Officer and the Director of Research in the Office of Patient Experience. She is an Assistant Professor at Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner College of Medicine and in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, where she teaches healthcare economics, population-based bioethics, and national and international comparative health policy. She is also an Instructor at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she teaches public health ethics.

She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University's Health Policy Program (with a concentration in Ethics) in 2010. Prior to her doctoral studies, she earned an MS in Bioethics from Union College/Albany Medical Center in 2006, and an MS in Social Work from Columbia University in 1998. Dr. Rose worked as a clinical social worker and researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, specializing in the psychosocial issues surrounding cancer.

During her career, Dr. Rose has received multiple mentorships and teaching awards. She has published two books focused on helping patients and family members cope with cancer, and she has published and presented in academic venues on topics related to conflicts of interest in medicine, health policy ethics, oncology, and clinical bioethics. Her publications have appeared in high-ranked peer-reviewed journals, such as JAMA Internal Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM), The Journal of Clinical Oncology, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), and PLOS One, and her book chapters on health policy ethics and end of life care have been published by the Oxford University Press. In addition to presenting at health conferences, such as SGIM, HIMSS, and AcademyHealth, she regularly presents at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH).

Her current research focuses upon the ethics of transparency, patient experience, and testing the impact of innovations in technology on healthcare delivery. These areas of research have been generously funded by multiple funding sources, including Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, NIH’s Clinical & Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) at Cleveland Clinic & Case Western Reserve University, The Greenwall Foundation, and the Cleveland Clinic’s Health Care Delivery Science Center and the Center for Populations Health Research.