Jeffrey Claridge

Jeffrey A. Claridge, MD, MS Graduated RIT in 1992 with high honors with a BS in Biology. He has been at MetroHealth since 2005 and currently serves as the Service Line and Division Director of Trauma, Burns, Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, OH. Under his leadership Metrohealth has expanded trauma and emergency general surgery across the region. He is responsible to oversee the American College of Surgeons verified Adult Level I and Pediatric Level II Trauma Centers, American Burn Association verified Adult and Pediatric Burn Center, three verified Level III Trauma Centers at MetroHealth Parma, Mercy Lorain, and Fisher Titus, and regional care of Emergency General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. He is a Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and recently appointed as a Vice Chair of Surgery at MetroHealth. Recently he was honored to be named the inaugural Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Colonel McNeal Endowed Professor of Trauma Surgery. He is the immediate past state chair of the Committee of Trauma for Ohio, which was a 6-year term and a Past President for both the Surgical Infection Society (SIS) and the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST).

Additionally, he maintains an active clinical practice in trauma, emergency general surgery, critical care, and bariatrics. Dr. Claridge was the first medical director of the Northern Ohio Trauma System for 8 years and has since served on the board and as Chair of the Board for 2 years. He went to medical school at the University of Rochester and did his surgical residency at the University of Virginia. Dr. Claridge did his critical care and trauma fellowship at University of Tennessee in Memphis and moved to his current location in Cleveland in 2005. He has continued to be actively involved in NIH, DOD, and industry sponsored studies. He has numerous chapters and over 150 peer reviewed publications.