Jesse D. Schold is a Full Staff member in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences in the Health Outcomes Research and Clinical Epidemiology Section and Director of Outcomes Research in Kidney Transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. He is also Director of the Center for Populations Health Research at the Lerner Research Institute. Dr. Schold received undergraduate training at Emory University, two Master’s degrees from North Carolina State University, and a Doctorate from the University of Florida. 

Dr. Schold’s research interests include large database analyses, quality metrics for healthcare providers, health services research, disparities in access to healthcare, and statistical and epidemiological methods. He oversees outcomes monitoring and quality evaluation of the solid organ transplantation programs at the Cleveland Clinic and has special interest in the development and use of report cards for evaluating the quality of transplant programs. 

Dr. Schold has authored over 290 peer-reviewed scientific publications with primary focus in the field of organ transplantation. He has served on numerous national committees and is a former Board member of the American Society of Transplantation. He has been a co-investigator on multiple studies from the National Institutes of Health, Health Resources & Services Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Schold has given over 200 invited national and international lectures and peer-reviewed abstract presentations at scientific conferences.