Friday, May 13, 2022, 12:30-1:15 p.m.

Ruth Lourdes R. Lagman, MD MPH MBA FACP FAAHPM
Assistant Professor of Medicine, The Harry R. Horvitz Center for Palliative Medicine Cleveland Clinic

Dr. Lagman was born in Manila, Philippines. She finished her Bachelor of Science in Zoology from the University of the Philippines in 1982. She obtained her degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Santo Tomas, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Manila in 1986. She then spent a clinical internship year followed by a brief stint as a volunteer physician in rural Philippines. Her experience in rural Philippines motivated her to pursue a Master’s degree in Public Health at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University with a concentration in the epidemiology of infectious disease. The degree was conferred in 1993 upon completion of her masteral thesis. Dr. Lagman did her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Connecticut Heath Center in Farmington, Connecticut from 1990-93. She then returned home to the Philippines and spent a year teaching at the College of Medicine at Angeles University in Pampanga, Philippines. In 1995, she entered the clinical fellowship program in Palliative Care at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She then spent the next few years in private practice doing general Internal Medicine in the greater Chicago area.

She returned to Cleveland, Ohio in July 2001 to join the medical staff of the Harry R. Horvitz Center for Palliative Medicine, Department of Hematology and Oncology at the Cleveland Clinic. Her previous administrative duties include Director of Clinical Services of the Palliative Medicine program, Medical Director of the Hospice of The Cleveland Clinic and Quality Review Officer for Palliative Medicine.

She completed her degree of Master of Business of Administration in February 2016 with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Apart from her full time duties as a palliative medicine physician, she is a medical acupuncturist and interested in integrative medicine including music therapy, complementary and alternative medicine.

She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Opioid Management and is a reviewer for various journals including American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Journal of Opioid Management, Supportive Care in Cancer, and the Cleveland Journal of Medicine to name a few.

She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

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