Dr. Margaret McKenzie, President of Cleveland Clinic South Pointe Hospital also practices gynecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology & Women’s Health Institute.  She also serves as an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. She is the immediate past president of the Cleveland Clinic’s Women’s Professional Staff Association, with a membership that exceeds 1100 female physicians at the Cleveland Clinic Health System.

She was appointed to the Cleveland Clinic Board of Governors where she is currently serving a five-year term.

Dr. McKenzie has extensive clinical, educational, administrative and leadership experience and her work focuses on empowering others, teaching medical students and residents and raising awareness about health access in her peers, the community and her patients. Her work in the community has involved finding practical, easy-to-achieve solutions for lifelong health.

An in-demand speaker on medical education, leadership in healthcare, personal health, diet and lifestyle issues, Dr. McKenzie has appeared on the Dr. Oz Show and multiple local TV stations. She has presented many topics at the Association of Professors in Gynecology and Obstetrics national Faculty Development Seminars, the Association of Medical Education in Europe, the National Medical Association, Speaking of Women’s Health, Universal Sisters, and Celebrate Sisterhood here in Cleveland, and on Crystal Cruises internationally.

She has presented nationally and internationally in medical education and is currently a member of the Undergraduate Medical Education Committee of the Association of Professors in Gynecology and Obstetrics where she is currently serving a five-year term.

Dr. McKenzie is co-authored two books and has written several book chapters and articles in peer reviewed journals.  She is a sought after speaker locally, nationally and internationally.

As a survivor of successful long-term weight management, Dr. McKenzie is an ambassador for conversations that help women at midlife with nutrition, exercise, stress management and maintenance of long-term weight loss.