Scott Steele, MD, MBA, FACS, FASCRS

Cleveland Clinic

Colorectal Surgeon and President of Main Campus Submarket

Scott R. Steele MD, MBA is the Rupert B. Turnbull MD Endowed Chair in Colorectal Surgery and President of the Main Campus Submarket at Cleveland Clinic. He was the Chairman of Colorectal Surgery at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH from 2016-2024. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, he was an active duty Army officer for over 20 years, serving as the Chief of Colorectal Surgery at Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis, WA. He has served 4 combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, being awarded the Bronze Star and Combat Medical Badge, amongst others. He is on the editorial board for multiple national surgical journals including Annals of Surgery, Cochrane Collaboration, and had served as the Colon & Rectal Surgery Community Editor for the American College of Surgeons. He is also an Editor for Surgery, Co-Editor for Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, and the Editor-in-Chief for Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery. Additionally, he is a reviewer for over 30 peer-reviewed journals. He has also been appointed to the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery for the last several years, and currently serves as the Past-President. His contributions to the medical literature include over 375 peer-reviewed articles, 110 invited reviews and book chapters, 30 national practice parameters, guest editor for 5 volumes dedicated to colorectal disease, and currently is an editor on 12 textbooks in colorectal surgery. He also received his MBA from Case Western University Weatherhead School of Business and Management in 2018, graduating with honors.