Affiliation: Cleveland Clinic
Email: STOLLEJ@ccf.org

Biography

Dr. Stoller is Chief of Education at Cleveland Clinic. He holds the Jean Wall Bennett Chair and the Samson Global Leadership Academy Endowed Chair at Cleveland Clinic. He is a pulmonary/critical care physician in the Cleveland Clinic Integrated Hospital Institute and is Professor of Medicine and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (Cleveland Clinic) in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is an Adjunct Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Bayes School of Business, City St. George’s University of London (UK).

In 1979, Dr. Stoller earned a medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and later completed an internship and residency at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. He then completed fellowships in pulmonary/critical medicine (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Yale), clinical epidemiology (Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale) and respiratory intensive care (Respiratory Intensive Care Unit of the Massachusetts General Hospital) before joining the Respiratory Institute Staff at Cleveland Clinic in 1986.

His clinical research has focused on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, especially alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, and on strategies of care delivery, especially respiratory therapy. He has authored/edited 20 books (including 6 editions of Egan’s Fundamentals of Respiratory Care), over 390 peer-reviewed reports, 88 chapters and more than 125 abstracts, and serves on the editorial board for Respiratory Care and previously the journals Clinical Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. He also serves as the Section Editor on COPD for UpToDate.

Throughout his career at Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Stoller has served in various leadership roles, including the Head of the Section of Respiratory Therapy, Vice Chairman of the Division of Medicine, Associate Chief of Staff, and the Executive Director of Leadership Development. He has served on the Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Executive Committee (Board of Governors) for 15 years (through 2024).

Over the years, Dr. Stoller has been invited to speak extensively and has been honored with numerous awards, including being named the 27th Egan Lecturer by the American Association for Respiratory Care, receiving the Forrest M. Bird Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award from the American Respiratory Care Foundation, Best Morning Report Attending in the Cleveland Clinic Division of Medicine, and the Cleveland Clinic “Master Educator” award (2016).

In 2001, Dr. Stoller earned a Masters of Science in Organizational Development and Analysis from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). His organizational development activities have included launching and co-directing the “Leading in Healthcare” course for Cleveland Clinic faculty, forming and directing the Cleveland Clinic’s Samson Global Leadership Academy, leading the American Thoracic Society’s “Emerging Leaders Program,” and teaching in leadership development curricula offered by various healthcare organizations (e.g., Hartford Healthcare, McLeod Healthcare, University of Virginia School of Medicine, American Association for Physician Leadership, Bayes School of Business, UK’s National Health Service). His organizational development scholarship focuses on the impact and outcomes of leadership development training in healthcare and he has co-authored the books “Exception to the Rule: The Surprising Science of Character-Based Culture, Engagement, and Performance” (McGraw-Hill, 2018) and “Better Humans, Better Performance: Driving Leadership, Teamwork and Culture with Intentionality” (McGraw Hill, 2023) with Peter Rea, PhD and Alan Kolp, PhD.

He currently also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Organizational Behavior at CWRU’s Weatherhead School of Management and as an Honorary Visiting Professor, Bayes School of Business, City St. George’s University of London (UK). Community and organizational service has included prior longstanding membership on the Board of Directors of the Alpha-1 Foundation and of the American Respiratory Care Foundation and current service as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of AlphaDetect..

Dr. Stoller is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society Fellow, and the American Association for Respiratory Care.

Articles

Taylor C, Farver C, Hess CA, Stoller JK.  Perspective:  Can emotional intelligence training serve as an alternative to teaching professionalism?  Acad Med 2011; 86: 1551-1554. PMID: 22030766

Stoller JK, Farver C, Taylor C.  Emotional intelligence competencies provide a developmental curriculum for medical training.  Med Teach 2013; 35(3):243-247. PMID: 23360483

Mintz L, Stoller JK.  A systematic review of emotional intelligence and physician leadership. JGME 2014; 6(1):21-31. DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-13-00012.1 PMID: 24701306

Nowacki A, Barss C, Christensen T, Spencer S, Fralicx R, Stoller JK. Emotional intelligence and physician leadership potential:  A longitudinal study supporting a link.  JHAE 2016; 33(1):23-41.

Stoller JK.  Leadership essentials for the chest medicine professional: Emotional intelligence.  Chest 2021; 159(3):1147-1154.

Stoller JK.  Leadership essentials for chest medicine professionals: Change.  Chest 2021; 159: 1559–1566.

Stoller JK.  Building teams in health care.  Chest 2021; 159:2392-2398.

Stoller JK.  Leadership essentials for the chest physician:  Models, attributes, and styles.  Chest 2021; 159: 1147 – 1154.

Stoller JK.  Developing physician leaders:  Why, whether, and is it effective?  Can Phys Leader J 2021; 7(2):85-88. https//doi.org/10.397964/cr24734

Goodall A, Stoller JK.  The future of clinical leadership:  Evidence for physician leadership and the educational pathway for new leaders.  BMJ Leader 2017; 0:1-4. DOI:10.1136/leader-2017-000010.

Stoller JK.  On the paradox of “Dichotomous” and “Deficit-Based” thinking in medicine.  BMJ Leader 2018;2:115-117.

Stoller JK.  Developing physician leaders:  Does it work?  BMJ Leader 2019;0:1-5: 10.1136/leader-2018-000116.

Stoller JK.  Reflections on leadership in the time of COVID-19.  BMJ Leader. https://bmjleader.bmj.com/content/early/2020/04/07/leader-2020-000244

Stoller JK.  On the power of spontaneous collisions: Preserving culture and effectiveness in the pandemic.  BMJ Leader 2021; 5:193-194.  Doi: 10.1136/leader-2021-000447

Porter TH, Peck JA, Bolwell B, Stoller JK. Authentic leadership at the Cleveland Clinic: Psychological safety in the midst of crisis. BMJ Leader 2023; 7:196-202. doi: 10.1136/leader-2022-000626.

Stoller JK.  The trajectory of a medical career:  A perspective regarding a proposed model. BMJ Leader 2023; 0:1-4. doi:10.1136/leader-2022-000685.

Stoller JK, Kolp A, Walsh A, Rea P.  The paradox of navigating uncertainty: Ancient “soft stuff” makes us tough.  BMJ Leader 2024; 0:1-5. Doi: 10.1136/leader-2023-000932.

Stoller JK, Rabalais G. Winding up to wind down: Designing the end of one’s medical career with intentionality. BMJ Leader 2025; 0:1 – 4, doi:10.1136/leader-2024-001179.

Rea P, Kolp, A Stoller JK.  Hire for character. Train for competence. J Corp Finance. Published online May 16, 2025. doi:10.1111/jacf.12669