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Patrick Runnels, MD, MBA

Patrick Runnels, MD, MBA

  • Director, Population Health Education, UH Cleveland Medical Center
  • Director, Public and Community Psychiatry, UH Cleveland Medical Center
  • Chief Medical Officer, Population/Behavioral Health, UH Cleveland Medical Center
  • Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, UH Cleveland Medical Center
  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry, CWRU School of Medicine
  • Professor of Psychiatry, CWRU School of Medicine
  • Specialty: Psychiatry-Adult Psychiatry
  • Location:
    UH W.O. Walker Center
    10524 Euclid Ave
    Cleveland, OH 44106

Biography: Patrick Runnels, MD, MBA

Expertise

  • Health Economics
  • Health System Leadership
  • Medical Education
  • Public Psychiatry
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Trauma

Certifications & Memberships

  • Psychiatry - American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
  • Community Psychiatry – American Association of Community Psychiatry

Education

Fellowship | Public Psychiatry
Public Psychiatry - Columbia University Medical Center (2007 - 2008)

Residency | Psychiatry
Psychiatry - Mount Sinai Hospital (2004 - 2007)

Internship | Psychiatry
Psychiatry - Mount Sinai Hospital (2003 - 2004)

Professional Education
Case Western Reserve University (2018)

Medical Education
University Of Missouri-Columbia School Of Medicine (2003)

Undergraduate
Truman State University (1998)

About

Patrick Runnels, MD, attended medical school at the University of Missouri, Columbia, completing his psychiatry residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and the Public Psychiatry Fellowship at Columbia University. In 2018, he also completed his executive MBA at Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management.

He is currently the Associate Chief Medical Officer of Population Health for the University Hospitals healthcare system in Cleveland, as well as Director of Adult Clinical Psychiatry for the Department of Psychiatry. In both roles, his focus is on improving efficiency of and access to behavioral health services at the regional level, as well as developing value-based models of healthcare delivery across a diversity of patient populations. Prior to that, he served as medical director for The Centers for Families and Children for eight years, which included oversight and implementation of one of the original 13 SAMHSA PBHCI grants as well as other models of integrated care and workforce development.

Academically, he is an Associate Professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine where he is director of the Public and Community Psychiatry Fellowship, which has graduated more than 50 fellows over the past decade, and which has pioneered models of interprofessional training and distance learning. He is the Chair of the National Council Medical Director Institute and Chair for the American Psychiatric Association’s Council on Government Relations; in these roles, he has focused on championing efforts to increase access to psychiatric services at the national level. He has served in the past on the Board of Trustees for the American Psychiatric Association, The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Ohio Chapter, and the American Association of Community Psychiatrists.

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.

View UH’s policy (PDF) on practitioner-industry relationships.

As of December 31, 2016, Patrick Runnels did not disclose any Outside Relationships with Industry.