(Dr. Charles S. Modlin, Jr. is donating 3 hours of his time to the winning bidder. Dr. Modlin, Director of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Minority Men's Health Center and one of only 17 African American Transplant Surgeons in the United States, will Expose the winning bidder to the World of Kidney Transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.)

Dr. Modlin is a Kidney Transplant Surgeon and Urologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. In New York University in 1993 and then completed a 3-year Fellowship in Basic Science Transplant Immunology and Clinical Renovascular Surgery. In 1983 he graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Chemistry and received his medical school education at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago graduating in 1987.


He completed a six-year Surgery/ Urology Residency at and Renal Transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. In 1996 he joined the Staff of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation's Urological Institute with a joint staff appointment within the Cleveland Clinic Transplant center. Dr. Modlin in addition has served as director of surgical renal transplantation at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio and Akron City Hospital in Akron, Ohio. He has authored scientific publications and presented scientific research at national meetings.


Dr. Modlin has made outstanding initiatives and contributions toward the elimination of health care disparities. Dr. Modlin is a leading force in Cleveland and leading the initiatives at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation toward elimination of health disparities. He is the Founder and Director of the Cleveland Clinic's Minority Men's Health Center which has gained national prominence. The center provides direct patient care (regardless of insurance status), patient education, research and community outreach to minority men and coordinates minority health initiatives at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation to eliminate health care disparities. Of significance, Dr. Modlin is one of only 15 African American Transplant Surgeons in the United States and devotes much of his personal and professional energy educating minority patients regarding options for kidney transplantation. At the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Dr. Modlin is a member of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Anatomy Curriculum Committee and Admissions Committee.


Dr. Modlin's effort toward elimination of health disparities has earned him Proclamation and Special Recognition by Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell and Cleveland City Council President Frank Jackson. In addition, Dr. Modlin because of his work toward elimination of health disparities in the minority community was voted as one of "Cleveland's Most Interesting People" in the First Edition of "Who's Who In Black Cleveland". Dr. Modlin has initiated a grass-roots campaign toward educating the minority community about healthcare and preventative health and has made numerous appearances and speaking engagements. His efforts toward health disparity elimination earned him the Northwestern University Alumni Medal presented by President Henry Bienen.


Dr. Modlin is board-certified in Urology and a member of the American College of Surgeons, the American Society of Transplantation, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, the American Urological Association, the Urologic Society of Transplantation and Vascular Surgery and the National Medical Association. He is an editor of the Journal of the National Medical Association. He is on the Board of Directors and Medical Advisory Board of MOTTEP of Cleveland (Minority Tissue Transplant Education Program, and in 2001 received a MOTTEP of Cleveland Man of the Year recognition). He is Chairman of the Health and Wellness Committee of the 100 Black Men of Cleveland, is Secretary and Trustee of The Shaker Schools Foundation in Shaker Heights (where he has initiated a mentorship program designed expose high academically performing minority students to careers in health professions), and is an elected member of the Northwestern University Medical School Alumni Board and Scholarship Committee. In September 2003, Dr. Modlin was honored by his high school alma mater and delivered the annual keynote speech at the high school academic awards ceremony.


On the home front, Dr. Modlin is married and a father of four children, ages 11, 9, 6, 5 years. His wife Sheryl is a Pediatric Anesthesiologist at University Hospitals of Cleveland. He takes great pride in that he is very active in the lives of his children. Dr. Modlin credits his professional and personal successes to the inspiration, motivation, and work ethic he received from his parents, Charles Sr. and Grace Modlin (recently deceased) of New Castle, Indiana and the blessings of God.