PHOENIX — The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees re-elected two members, elected two internal members and recognized four emeritus trustees at its quarterly meeting on Friday, Feb. 15.

“It's an exciting time for Mayo Clinic, and our trustees play a crucial role in helping us shape Mayo Clinic's future,” says Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., Mayo Clinic's president and CEO. “As we plan now for the year 2030, health care disruption also will come faster. The expertise and perspectives of our trustees will help us build Mayo Clinic's future from a position of strength.”

The board re-elected two trustees:

• Michael Powell, who joined the board in 2011, was re-elected as a public trustee to a four-year term. He is president and CEO of The Internet & Television Association. Powell was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 2001 to 2005 and a member of the Federal Communications Commission for eight years.
• Paula Menkosky, chief administrative officer, Mayo Clinic in Arizona, who has been a board member since 2016. She was re-elected to a one-year term. Menkosky is responsible for Mayo Clinic operations in Arizona in partnership with Lois Krahn, M.D., Interim CEO of Mayo Clinic in Arizona.

The board elected two internal trustees to four-year terms:

• Claudia Lucchinetti, M.D. is chair of the Department of Neurology, the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Professor of Neurosciences, and past associate director of the Center for Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Neurology at Mayo Clinic.
• Christina Zorn, J.D., chief administrative officer, Mayo Clinic in Florida, is responsible for Mayo Clinic operations in Florida in partnership with Kent Thielen, M.D., CEO of Mayo Clinic in Florida.

The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees recognized and honored five emeritus trustees:

• William George, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and author of numerous leadership books, has served as a trustee since 2012. He is the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic.
• Wyatt Decker, M.D., who retired as CEO of Mayo Clinic in Arizona in January, has been a trustee since 2011. Dr. Decker's Mayo career spanned 30 years, beginning in medical school.
• John Noseworthy, M.D., who retired in December 2018 after serving as Mayo Clinic's president and CEO. He served as a trustee since 2009. Dr. Noseworthy served Mayo Clinic for 28 years, nine as president and CEO.
• Veronique Roger, M.D. is the Elizabeth C. Lane and Nadine M. Zimmerman Professor of Internal Medicine. She has served Mayo Clinic for more than 26 years as a cardiologist, epidemiologist and outcomes researcher. She has served as trustee since 2011.
• Mary Jo Williamson, who is vice chair, administration, Mayo Clinic, has served as a trustee since 2013. Williamson has served in various leadership positions during her 25-year Mayo Clinic career.

The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees, a 31-member group of public representatives and Mayo Clinic physicians and administrators, is responsible for patient care, medical education and research at Mayo Clinic's campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota, as well as Mayo Clinic Health System, a network of clinics and hospitals serving more than 60 communities in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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In a new study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators report new understanding and new hope for heart failure patients.

“We really wanted to understand the complete experience of heart failure patients,” says Sheila Manemann, a health care delivery researcher at Mayo Clinic and the study’s first author.

“To do so, we needed to look at not just outpatient and hospital information, but that from skilled nursing facilities,” she says. “This required linked data from across the community and across the lives of these patients.”

The team studied the medical records of 1,498 patients who were residents of Olmsted County, Minnesota, between Jan. 1, 2000, and Dec. 31, 2010, and initially diagnosed with heart failure during that time.

“After adjusting for various contributing risk factors and conditions, we found that being in a skilled nursing facility means a heart failure patient is 50 percent more likely to end up back in the hospital than patients who were able to return home,” says Manemann.

Using linked medical records from the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a unique resource that enables longitudinal, population-based epidemiologic studies across an entire community, the research team was able to examine detailed medical information from nearly all sources of care. They connected this to skilled nursing facility usage information obtained from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

The team found that more than 40 percent of heart failure patients were admitted to a skilled nursing facility at some point after diagnosis. Among these, 37 percent were discharged only to return to a skilled nursing facility at least two more times.

The researchers also learned that, in general, hospital readmissions for patients from a skilled nursing facility were for reasons unrelated to cardiovascular function.

Learning these facts, “we wanted to try to identify ways to improve outcomes for patients released to a skilled nursing facility, as well as potentially for patients overall,” says Véronique Roger, M.D., a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic and the study’s senior author.

The team determined that one of the key factors in estimating a person’s likelihood to be readmitted to the hospital during a stay in a skilled nursing facility is his or her general ability to carry on the activities of daily living upon entering the facility.

“The level of activity a patient has when he or she enters a skilled nursing facility is an important predictor of whether he or she will be readmitted to the hospital and how [he or she] will do in the long term,” states Dr. Roger.

Understanding this opens the door for more informed patient-doctor conversations, as well as potential health and wellness interventions.

“For me and my colleagues, it is important for us to understand the other conditions that travel with heart failure,” says Dr. Roger. “We need to understand the big picture to be able to treat the whole patient.”

She and her colleagues would like to see programs to increase mobility for heart failure patients in skilled nursing facilities.

“We want to make it much more common that heart failure patients who transition to a skilled nursing facility are able to return home,” she says. “Most importantly, we’d like to see healthier individuals able to consistently participate in life activities.”

Dr. Roger also supports efforts to increase individual activity levels at all stages of life for better health and wellness – and potentially to prevent heart failure in the first place.

Dr. Roger is the Elizabeth C. Lane, Ph.D., and M. Nadine Zimmerman, Ph.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, and the medical director of the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery. The Rochester Epidemiology Project is a collaboration of clinics, hospitals and other medical facilities in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and involves community members who have agreed to share their medical records for research. It is administratively managed through the center.

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PHOENIX — The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees welcomed Gianrico Farrugia, M.D. ,as a new member, re-elected two internal trustees and one public trustee, and also recognized three recipients of Mayo Clinic named professorships at its board meeting today.

Dr. Farrugia was named Mayo Clinic vice president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Mayo Clinic's campus in Jacksonville, Florida, in August 2014. He replaces William Rupp, M.D., who retired at the end of 2014 and was elected as an emeritus trustee. Michael Powell, who joined the board in 2011, was re-elected as a public trustee. Powell, who is president and CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2001 to 2005 and a member of the FCC for eight years.

The board re-elected two internal trustees:

• Veronique Roger, M.D., a Mayo Clinic cardiologist in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases with an appointment also in the Department of Health Sciences Research. Dr. Roger also holds the Elizabeth C. Lane, Ph.D., and M. Nadine Zimmerman, Ph.D., Professor of Internal Medicine. Dr. Roger will serve a four-year term.

• Pam Johnson, R.N., chair, Mayo Clinic Department of Nursing. Ms. Johnson will serve a one-year term.

The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees also recognized three new named professorships, the highest academic distinction for faculty members at Mayo Clinic.

Barbara Pockaj, M.D., a physician in the Department of General Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and section head for Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, is recognized as the Michael M. Eisenberg Professor. The professorship was established in 1991 through a gift from the George M. Eisenberg Foundation.

It is the seventh of eight professorships at Mayo Clinic funded by generous gifts from Mr. Eisenberg and his foundations — and one of two professorships named in honor of his brothers.

As a surgical oncologist, Dr. Pockaj treats patients with breast cancers and skin neoplasms, especially melanoma. Working to establish Mayo’s practice of sentinel lymph node biopsies in Arizona, Dr. Pockaj organized and mentored the different clinical departments and ancillary staff to create efficiencies in working together. She heads the disease site team for melanoma and is leading efforts for conducting multicenter phase III clinical trials. With breast cancer continuing to be a large portion of her clinical and research practice, she is also involved with many clinical studies and trials designed to inform better treatments and therapies. She currently chairs the Breast Cancer Interest Group (BIG) at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, a group of clinicians and basic scientists focusing on breast cancer-related translational research projects.

Richard Ehman, M.D., a physician in the Division of Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Department of Radiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, with a joint appointment in the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, is recognized as the Blanche R. and Richard J. Erlanger Professor in Medical Research.

Dr. Ehman is best known for his groundbreaking work in medical imaging, specifically in nuclear magnetic resonance and its use in diagnosing a variety of conditions. He also is credited with developing magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), which allows physicians to determine the stiffness of internal organs without invasive procedures. His research program is focused on developing new imaging technologies. Dr. Ehman holds more than 40 patents, and many of these inventions are widely used in medical care.

Bernard Bendok, M.D., a physician and chair for the Department of Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, is recognized as the William J. and Charles H. Mayo Professor. Four professorships were established in 2004 to celebrate the Mayo brothers’ commitment to learning and teaching.

Dr. Bendok leads innovative clinical trials for stroke, neurovascular and cranial base diseases. His research includes a focus on utilizing simulation to enhance the precision and safety of surgical care. His clinical career focus has been on the management of complex neurovascular and cranial base diseases utilizing microsurgical, interventional and radiosurgical techniques.

The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees, a 31-member group of public representatives and Mayo Clinic physicians and administrators, is responsible for patient care, medical education and research at Mayo Clinic’s sites in Jacksonville, Fla.; Rochester, Minn.; and Phoenix and Scottsdale, Ariz.

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Dougherty will serve a four-year term as an external trustee. Dougherty Financial Group is the parent company to Dougherty & Company LLC, a full-service investment-banking firm with three affiliated companies. Dougherty received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn. and also serves on the university's board of trustees and is chair of the executive committee. He currently serves on the board of directors for Forestar Group Inc., Austin, Texas.

Veronique Roger, M.D., a cardiologist in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases with an appointment also in the Department of Health Sciences Research at Mayo Clinic, is recognized as the Elizabeth C. Lane, Ph.D., and M. Nadine Zimmerman, Ph.D., Professor in Internal Medicine. Dr. Lane, who died in 2011, was a professor of physical education at Northern Illinois University from 1954–1982. She was a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. Dr. Zimmerman taught at the university for 34 years and served in administrative leadership roles.

Dr. Roger is director of Mayo Clinic's Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery and a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Using population science methods, Dr. Roger works to understand factors behind diseases and their outcomes in large-scale population studies, focusing on heart failure and coronary artery disease. Her research is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association. Dr. Roger works with the Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery to test and put into place health care delivery models that improve patient outcomes.

Evanthia Galanis, M.D., an oncologist in the Department of Oncology and Department of Molecular Medicine, is recognized as The Sandra J. Schulze Professor. The Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation funded the professorship and established a center dedicated to the discovery, development and use of cancer therapies. The center focuses on treatments that save lives and enhance patients' quality of life. The Mayo Clinic Schulze Center for Novel Therapeutics is recognized on the 19th floor of the Gonda Building.

Dr. Galanis is an oncology professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Medicine, which is involved in gene therapy and using viruses to treat cancer. Dr. Galanis's work focuses on targeted treatments based on the molecular characteristics of a patient's tumor. Her laboratory is developing virotherapy and gene transfer strategies for the treatment of solid tumors, especially in brain, breast and prostate cancer. She is also researching the combination of viral therapeutics with other treatments such as radiation therapy and small molecule cell cycle inhibitors. She is the lead researcher in multiple Mayo-based and national clinical trials.

The Board of Trustees named Mayo Clinic's officers for 2013. They are Marilyn Carlson Nelson, chair; John Noseworthy, M.D., president and CEO; vice presidents: Shirley Weis, chief administrative officer, William Rupp, M.D., and Wyatt Decker, M.D.; Jeffrey Bolton, chief financial officer; Jonathan Oviatt, secretary; and Harry Hoffman, treasurer.

Daniel Berry, M.D., chair of Orthopedic Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester and Lois Krahn, M.D., Psychiatry and Psychology and the Sleep Disorders Center at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, were named internal trustees and will serve four-year terms. Mary Jo Williamson, the chief administrator for the Mayo Clinic Care Network, was elected to a one-year term.

Dawn Milliner, M.D., a nephrologist in Nephrology and Hypertension and Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, was re-elected as an internal trustee and will serve a four-year term. Robert Nesse, M.D., CEO, Mayo Clinic Health System, was re-elected as an internal trustee and will serve one year.

The Board of Trustees recognized four retiring members:

• A. Dano Davis, former chair, president and CEO, Winn-Dixie Stores. He joined the board in 2001.
• Louis Gonda, co-chair, Firststream Paris and president, Lexington Commercial Holdings. He joined the board in 2001.
• Scott Gorman, M.D., Community Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. He joined the board in 2009.
• Robert Brigham, chief administrative officer at Mayo Clinic in Florida. He joined the board in 2011.

The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees, a 31-member group of public representatives and Mayo Clinic physicians and administrators, is responsible for patient care, medical education and research at Mayo Clinic's sites in Jacksonville, Fla.; Rochester, Minn.; and Phoenix and Scottsdale, Ariz.

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Making a difference in the lives of patients

Optum and Mayo Clinic are announcing the launch of Optum Labs, an open, collaborative research and development facility with a singular goal: improving patient care.They will make their information assets, technologies, knowledge tools and scientific expertise available to organizations interested in pursuing practical new solutions to patient care challenges.

With combined insights of Optum, Mayo and other partners, Optum Labs will support patient care improvements in areas like:

finding optimal treatments for conditions in a given setting

understanding variations in care

examining effectiveness of patient care programs and approaches

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Executives from Optum and Mayo Clinic held a  news conference this morning. The MP3 audio is available in the downloads

Animation, Infographic, b-roll of the Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minn. campus, plus sound bites with John Noseworthy, M.D. , and Veronique Roger, M.D., are available in the downloads above

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Dr. John Noseworthy, Pres. and CEO, Mayo Clinic
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