Jonathan L. Schaffer, M.D., M.B.A.

Jonathan L. Schaffer, M.D., M.B.A., is managing director of the eCleveland Clinic, a project of Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Board-certified in orthopedic surgery, Dr. Schaffer is also a staff member in the Center for Joint Replacement in the Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Institute and leads the Advanced Operative Technology Group in the Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Research Center at Cleveland Clinic. His clinical interests include the treatment of arthritic knees and the integration of technology in the orthopedic operating room. He leads the Orthopaedic Operating Room of the Future project at Cleveland Clinic and has been on Cleveland Clinic’s Commercialization Council for over six years.

Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Schaffer was an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He was instrumental in the development of the OrthoRegistry application, based on NeXTSTEP, which was sold to a major orthopedic company. Dr. Schaffer was then the associate director of the Decision Systems Group, a medical informatics laboratory, and president, then CEO, of Harmonie Group, Inc., a software company spun off from the laboratory with external venture and corporate funding. He has served on medical industry and venture capital advisory boards—including those of Alza, AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Biorita, Zin Medical, and iBalance Medical—and is a founder of Tracuro Pharmaceutical Systems.

A frequent lecturer at regional, national, and international IT and medical meetings, Dr. Schaffer has authored more than 100 articles, book chapters, and textbooks. He has developed a number of multimedia programs and computer software applications on patient outcomes and patient education, and has received several awards for medical Web site development.

Dr. Schaffer is an active member of many professional societies, including the American College of Physician Executives, the Health Care Information and Management Systems Society, and the American Medical Informatics Association. He also is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, a member of the American Orthopaedic Association, and was named to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.

Dr. Schaffer is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, completing his internship and residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Affiliated Hospitals in Philadelphia. He completed a fellowship in adult reconstruction at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and a research fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Schaffer also holds a master’s in business administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.