Cleveland Clinic Innovations and North Shore – Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc. announced an agreement to create an "Innovation Alliance" to benefit patients through collaborative innovation and commercialization opportunities. Specifically, they will seek to enhance the discovery, development, deployment and commercialization of new technologies originating from North Shore-LIJ's clinical facilities and it’s Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, headquartered in Manhasset, NY. North Shore-LIJ is the second institution in the country to join Cleveland Clinic's Innovation Alliance program, the first being MedStar Health -- the mid-Atlantic's largest healthcare system. The primary goal of the collaboration between Cleveland Clinic Innovations (CCI) and North Shore-LIJ is to leverage the capabilities of CCI to help turn the discoveries made at the Feinstein into diagnostic and treatment options that can be used to improve patient care. The collaboration, which will also identify other opportunities for joint projects within the North Shore-LIJ Health System, will be led by CCI Chief Innovations Officer Thomas Graham, M.D., and Executive Director Chris Coburn, and Feinstein Institute President Kevin Tracey, M.D.

Cleveland Clinic Innovations Presents at The 5th Annual OneMedForum San Francisco 2012, Jan-10-2012 10:50 AM. Venue: The Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, United States. Speakers: Chris Coburn, Chief of Technology Commercialization, Executive Director and Member of Commercialization Council.