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Rob Saper

Rob Saper

Chair of the Department of Wellness and Preventive Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, integrative medicine physician and researcher focused on yoga for chronic pain and wellness-centered leadership.

Aug 12, 2026

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practices, meditation, yoga, acupuncture, etc.,
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And that really got me into academics and research.
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And then I went on to Boston University, where I developed a program with colleagues called Integrative Medicine and Health Disparities, where we really learned how to try to deliver these kind of holistic approaches to a very diverse group of patients.
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I was fortunate to come to Cleveland Clinic four years ago now and have this role.
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I'll share just one little story to give you a hint at my interest in this area.
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I was at Harvard doing my third year of rotations, and we all know how hard those are, going from one field to another field to another field with a new knowledge base, new people, and as a medical student, you're lowest on the pecking order.
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And by the end of that year, I was really burned out and down and really questioning whether I was in the right place doing the right thing.

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So is there one type of disconnection that might be more important, more restorative than the others? And how do we figure out how much of each type we need?

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