The Department of Internal Medicine faculty consists of practicing health care professionals from Northeast Ohio Medical University’s affiliated hospitals throughout northeast Ohio. Our faculty members volunteer their time to train our students. These volunteer faculty members model the University’s core values of competence, communication, caring, character, curiosity and community in their daily practice and their teaching and mentoring of medical students. The department’s success relies on the strengthening of our affiliations with our community partners in health care delivery and our ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with researchers and educators throughout the entire medical school and university.

Internal Medicine Sections

• Cardiology
• Dermatology
• Gastroenterology
• General Medicine
• Infectious Disease
• Pulmonary/Critical Care

department chair

Mehool Patel, M.D., ’98 is clinical professor and interim chair of the Department of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Patel has served as Hematology/Oncology section chair, clinical dyad leader for the Foundations of Disease and Treatment course as well as course director for informatics in the College of Graduate Studies. He has long been actively involved in NEOMED and the curriculum having served a vital role on the COM curriculum committee, as an elective director for Hematology and Oncology in the M4 year and as a reflective practice leader for Human Values in Medicine.

Dr. Patel is Associate Chief Health Officer at Watson Health for Provider Analytics and a practicing Hematologist/Oncologist at Summa Health. He has served on NEOMED’s Foundation Board, Alumni Board and the COM Admissions Committee.