Andrea Cheville, M.D., named chair, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic in Rochester

Andrea Cheville, M.D. (PMR ’06), was named chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. She succeeds Carmen Terzic, M.D., Ph.D. (PHAR ’96, I1 ’99, PMR ’01, CI ’03, PMR ’03), who was chair since 2011.

Dr. Cheville is the chief of Cancer Rehabilitation and Lymphedema, chair for Research in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and medical director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Program in the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery.

Dr. Cheville is a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science.