Episode 42: Dr. Kendalle Cobb
Dr. Kendalle Cobb is a family medicine provider at Cleveland Clinic and currently serves as the associate chief of staff with a focus on diversity and inclusion. She received her bachelor's degree in history from Harvard University and her medical degree from George Washington University in Washington, DC. She then headed back westwhere she completed her family medicine residency at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Fontana, CA. She serves as a Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, where she was Director of Diversity and Inclusion from 2010 until 2019. In 2016, she was awarded a one-year Chief of Staff grant. Her project explored the successes and challenges that the Clinic faces in creating a culture of diversity and inclusion. In 2018, she was elected to the Board of Governors at Cleveland Clinic before Dr. Mihaljevic asked her to step down to lead of Differentiated Lifetime Care, which will transform the way that the Clinic delivers care.In March 2021, she was appointed Associate Chief of Staff, where she focuses on making this the best place to practice medicine for physicians who work in the outpatient setting and on recruitment and retention of physicians, with a specific focus on thosetraditionally underrepresented in medicine. Dr. Cobb and her family live in Shaker Heights.