Grace McComsey, MD
- Director, Dahms Clinical Research Unit, University Hospitals
- Director, Clinical Research Center, University Hospitals
- Vice President, Research and Associate Chief Scientific Officer, University Hospitals
- Program Director, Pediatric Infectious Disease, UH Cleveland Medical Center
- Professor, CWRU School of Medicine
- Specialty: Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Infectious Disease
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Location:UH Cleveland Cornell
2061 Cornell Rd
Cleveland, OH 44106
- Call: 216-844-7892
Biography: Grace McComsey, MD
Expertise
Certifications & Memberships
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases - American Board of Pediatrics
Education
Fellowship | Infectious Diseases
Infectious Diseases - University Hospitals Of Cleveland (1994 - 1997)
Residency | Medicine/Pediatrics
Medicine/Pediatrics - Metrohealth Medical Center (1991 - 1994)
Internship | Medicine/Pediatrics
Medicine/Pediatrics - St Joseph's Regional Medical Center (1990 - 1991)
Medical Education
Universite St Joseph, Faculty Of Medicine (1989)
About
Grace McComsey, MD, FIDSA, is the Vice President of Research and Associate Chief Scientific Officer at University Hospitals (UH) Health System in Cleveland, Ohio. She is also Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the Case Western Reserve University.
A board-certified physician with training in Adult and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Dr. McComsey leads the Clinical Research Center at UH, the central infrastructure for clinical research within the health system. She is also the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital.
Dr. McComsey is an internationally known researcher in the field of HIV. She is the author of over 250 peer-reviewed publications in the area of metabolic and cardiovascular complications of HIV infection and its treatment. Dr. McComsey has served as principal investigator on more than 15 grants from the National Institute of Health (NIH), in addition to several Foundation and Industry grants. She is currently serving as principal investigator on four NIH grants, focused around understanding the heightened inflammation and immune activation and its effect on metabolic and cardiovascular comorbidities in adults and children living with HIV.
Dr. McComsey has received several awards as the result of her research, including a Research Award from the HIV Medical Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America recognizing her work in HIV metabolic complications and the YWCA Women of Professional Excellence Award. Dr. McComsey has earned recognition by her peers and regularly voted among the Best Doctors in America and Best Doctors in Cleveland. Additionally she has repeatedly been named one of America’s Top Physicians and among the Exceptional Women in Medicine.
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Industry Relationships
University Hospitals is committed to transparency in our interactions with industry partners, such as pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical device companies. At UH, we disclose practitioner and their family members’ ownership and intellectual property rights that are or in the process of being commercialized. In addition, we disclose payments to employed practitioners of $5,000 or more from companies with which the practitioners interact as part of their professional activities. These practitioner-industry relationships assist in developing new drugs, devices and therapies and in providing medical education aimed at improving quality of care and enhancing clinical outcomes. At the same time, UH understands that these relationships may create a conflict of interest. In providing this information, UH desires to assist patients in talking with their practitioners about industry relationships and how those relationships may impact their medical care.
UH practitioners seek advance approval for certain new industry relationships. In addition, practitioners report their industry relationships and activities, as well as those of their immediate family members, to the UH Office of Outside Interests annually. We review these reports and implement management plans, as appropriate, to address conflicts of interest that may arise in connection with medical research, clinical care and purchasing decisions.
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As of December 31, 2016, Grace McComsey disclosed the following Outside Relationships with Industry:
- - Tibotec - Consulting