Krista Lombardo-Klefos

Krista Lombardo-Klefos, MBA, Senior Director, Enterprise Graduate Medical Education, Cleveland Clinic I have been working in the Graduate Medical Education office at the Cleveland Clinic since 2008, holding various positions. Starting as the GMEC Coordinator, moving to MedHub Program Manager, then Accreditation Administrator in 2018. In 2021, I was named Administrative Director for GME and in 2025 the Senior Director for Enterprise GME. My new role manages the office that oversees 253 training programs, 1,825 trainees and 143 GME caregivers under the umbrella of the ONE SI of the Enterprise Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Akron and Florida). From 2016-2020 I was the Project Manager of the Pursuing Excellence grant that we received from the ACGME as an innovator. Throughout my career I have given multiple presentations and posters at local and national GME meetings and co-authored two handbooks, Clinical Competency Committees Made Simple and The Complete Guide to Continuous GME Accreditati