Staff Bioethicist

Cleveland Clinic; Canton (OH); On-site; USD 103,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

Cleveland Clinic is seeking a Staff Bioethicist to provide ethics consultation services across a multi-hospital, quaternary care system as part of a group practice and enterprise-wide ethics program.

The role includes 18–20 weeks of on-call duties, travel to main campus and regional hospitals, documentation, scholarship, and ethics education for caregivers.

Qualifications

• MD/DO, JD, PhD, or equivalent terminal degree required.
• Acute care clinical ethics consultation experience.
• Post-graduate clinical ethics fellowship preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide ethics consultation services, including complex cases in a fast-paced, team-based setting.
• Travel to Main Campus and regional hospitals as needed.
• Maintain internal documentation of clinical ethics consultations and contribute to QA/QI efforts.
• Collaborate with colleagues to produce scholarship.
• Participate in ethics education and professional development of caregivers.
• Mentor and supervise bioethics fellows and trainees.
• Contribute to Center- and institution-level initiatives that promote innovation.
• Provide input on ethics issues across the Cleveland Clinic Enterprise and at local, regional, and national levels.

Skills

Ethics consultation

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education & mentorship

Education

MD/DO, JD, PhD, international equivalent, or field-specific terminal degree

Job description

The Staff Bioethicist provides ethics consultation services at a multi-hospital, quaternary care system by delivering care as part of a group practice and contributing to the full range of clinical ethics program activities enterprise-wide.

Responsibilities

• Clinical ethics consultation service: 18-20 on-call weeks including both 24/7 primary and daytime-only call responsibilities.
• Travel to Main Campus and regional hospitals across Northeast Ohio as needed.
• Maintain internal documentation of clinical ethics consultations for database records and contribute to QI/QA efforts.
• Collaborate with colleagues to produce scholarship.
• Participate in ongoing clinical ethics programming, including ethics education, professional development of caregivers, and community outreach.
• Mentor and supervise bioethics fellows and rotating trainees.
• Contribute to Center- and institution-level initiatives that promote innovation.
• Provide expert input on clinical ethics issues across the Cleveland Clinic Enterprise and at the local, regional, and national levels.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to

• Provide high-quality ethics consultation services, including complex cases on a fast-paced, high-volume, team-based service.
  • Facilitate and lead meetings, utilize appropriate techniques for conflict engagement, and build consensus.
  • Collaborate professionally with members of multidisciplinary clinical teams and leadership, engaging multiple points of view and communicating effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Contribute to the Center's mission of innovation in clinical ethics, including quality assessment and improvement.
• Uphold standards of professionalism and excellence.
• Commit to professional growth and development.
• Provide evidence of successful engagement in relationship-centered collaboration, teambuilding, and patient-centered care, and the ability to work collaboratively and inclusively to inspire and motivate others.
• Practice consistently with the characteristics central to Cleveland Clinic and the Center for Bioethics' values: honesty, integrity, humility, courage, tolerance for ambiguity, open-mindedness, balanced judgment and demeanor, accountability, and good stewardship of resources.

Credentials/qualifications

Required

• MD/DO, JD, PhD, international equivalent, or field-specific terminal degree.
• Acute care clinical ethics consultation experience.

Preferred

• Successful completion of a post-graduate clinical ethics fellowship.

About Us

Cleveland Clinic's vision is to become the best place for care and the best place to work in healthcare. We are committed to providing a safe, stable, and financially fulfilling work environment. Cleveland Clinic is ambitiously investing in growth. Being a physician-led organization means doing what is best for the patients, every day.

Cleveland Clinic is one of the world's largest and busiest health centers. Patients come to Cleveland Clinic from all over the world. We offer advanced treatment for all illnesses and disorders of the body.

Cleveland Clinic is a nonprofit, multispecialty academic medical center that's recognized in the U.S. and throughout the world for its expertise and care. Cleveland Clinic integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education. Located in Cleveland, Ohio, it was founded in 1921 by four renowned physicians with a vision of providing outstanding patient care based upon the principles of cooperation, compassion and innovation. Cleveland Clinic has pioneered many medical breakthroughs, including coronary artery bypass surgery and the first face transplant in the United States. Among Cleveland Clinic's 80,642 employees worldwide are more than 5,743 salaried physicians and researchers, and 20,166 registered nurses and advanced practice providers, representing 140 medical specialties and subspecialties. Cleveland Clinic is a 6,690-bed health system that includes a 173-acre main campus near downtown Cleveland, 23 hospitals, more than 270 outpatient facilities, including locations in northeast Ohio; southeast Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; Toronto, Canada; Abu Dhabi, UAE; and London, England. In 2025, there were 15.9 million total outpatient visits, 343,000 hospital admissions and observations, and 336,000 surgical cases throughout Cleveland Clinic's health system. Patients came for treatment from every state and 185 countries.

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Pay Range

Minimum salary: $103,000

Maximum salary: $191,500