Ruth M. Farrell, MD, MA, FACOG
Physician-scientist, Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Ruth Farrell is a physician-scientist at the Cleveland Clinic, whose mission is to provide patients with the highest-quality, equitable, and innovative healthcare. She is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist with a primary appointment in the Cleveland Clinic OB/GYN Institute and secondary appointments in the Genomic Medicine Institute and the Center for Bioethics. Dr. Farrell serves as the Vice Chair of Research at the Cleveland Clinic OB/GYN Institute, where she leads the institute's research strategy and academic performance across a spectrum of clinical, basic, translational, and health services research. She is Professor of OB/GYN and Reproductive Biology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Farrell's medical practice specializes in women's health, gynecology, and reproductive medicine, with a focus on the medical management of benign gynecologic conditions, contraception, cervical cancer prevention, and gynecologic ultrasound. Her research investigates the translation of new biomedical science and technology into women's health and reproductive medicine. She has been successfully funded by the NIH, March of Dimes, and the Templeton Foundation to pursue this line of research. Dr. Farrell received an M.A. in Bioethics and an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University. Following residency in OB/GYN at University Hospitals of Cleveland, she completed the Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy, a joint program of the Johns Hopkins Berman Bioethics Institute and Georgetown University Kennedy Institute of Ethics. During this time, she also served as the J. Benjamin Younger Fellow of Policy at ASRM in Washington, DC.