Head, Center For Adolecent Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics
Cleveland Clinic Children’s; Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case
Dr. Rome currently serves as the Head of Adolescent Medicine at Cleveland Clinic and is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case. Dr. Rome received her undergraduate degree in psychology, magna cum laude, from Yale University, her medical degree and Alpha Omega Alpha from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, then completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins, followed by a three year fellowship in adolescent medicine at Children’s Hospital, Boston, during which time she also obtained a masters degree in Public Health at Harvard..
Dr. Rome has held leadership positions in various organizations serving youth, now as immediate past president of the Federation Internationale de Gynecologie Infantile et Juvenile (FIGIJ) and past president of the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (NASPAG). She served as Associate Chief of Staff at Cleveland Clinic and is chair of their Opioid Education and Prevention Committee, as well as on the Infant Mortality Task Force. As president of the Women’s Professional Staff Association, Dr. Rome helped create and implement a business plan to recruit, develop, and promote the best staff. She is the author of two books collaboratively with Drs. Mehmet Oz and Mike Roizen, You: The Owner’s Manual for Teens, and You Raising Your Child from First Breath to First Grade. She has been an invited speaker locally, nationally, and internationally on various topics in adolescent medicine, while maintaining a commitment to research and ongoing teaching of housestaff and students.