Leopoldo Pozuelo, MD
Psychiatry
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Age Groups Seen
- Adult
Languages
- Spanish
- English
Gender
MaleAbout Leopoldo Pozuelo
Title
Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology
Biography
Hired in 1997, Leopoldo “Leo” Pozuelo is a staff psychiatrist at the Cleveland Clinic who served as Section Head of Consultation Psychiatry from 2005-2019.
He is dual trained in internal medicine and psychiatry. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry. He maintains active behavioral health and behavioral cardiology clinics.
He has served as psychiatry residency director, medical school psychiatry clerkship director, and fellowship director of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry at the Cleveland Clinic.
Leo has led enterprise initiatives in delirium management and suicide screening. He completed a Health Care MBA from Baldwin Wallace University in 2017.
In 2019, he was elected and served a five-year term on the Board of Governors (BOG) of the Cleveland Clinic, which advises the CEO and Chief of Staff. In 2024, he was appointed to the Medical Executive Committee (MEC) of the Main Campus of the Cleveland Clinic.
In 2021, under the Neurological Institute, he was appointed Chair of Psychiatry and Psychology, supervising 137 clinicians and a comprehensive array of psychiatric services in Northeast Ohio.
The scope of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology includes outpatient psychiatry and psychology sites, a robust consultation liaison psychiatry service, 14 intensive outpatient programs, and three inpatient psychiatric hubs, totaling +160 psychiatric beds.
The Department has various training programs, including an adult psychiatry residency program, a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship, a city-wide addiction psychiatry fellowship, a consultation liaison psychiatry fellowship, and a health psychology fellowship. CCLCM and CWRU medical students do their core psychiatry clerkship on our CL and inpatient services.
Current 2025-2026 strategic efforts are developing a division of neuropsychiatry, establishing centers of excellence for treatment resistant depression, integration of behavioral service lines in various submarkets of Northeast Ohio and Florida, and growing the section of women’s behavioral health.
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Education & Board Certifications
Education
- Residency: Cleveland Clinic, 1997
- Residency: University Hospitals of Cleveland, 1995
- Residency: Huron Hospital, 1994
- Medical Education: University of Navarra Medical School, 1988
Board Certifications
- Psychosomatic Medicine: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, 2005
- Psychiatry: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, 1998
Professional Highlights
Research & Publications
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