When Marco A. Costa, M.D., Ph.D., arrives at work each day, the only thing he knows for certain is that he has no idea how his day will go. However, there’s a good chance that he will be helping to save someone’s life, either through his work as an interventional cardiologist, or as a result of his medical research and innovation. As president of University Hospitals Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute, Costa heads up a team of talented medical professionals who provide leading edge cardiovascular care across 18 hospitals in the UH network, plus more than 40 outpatient clinics and at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center. Costa is also UH’s Chief Innovation Officer, a position he has held since 2015 thanks to his passion for medical research and technology innovation. Costa was among the first medical professionals to pioneer the use of a device called a drug-eluting stent, which led to major advancements in the treatment of cardiac disease. In case that isn’t enough to keep him busy, Costa can also be found teaching and mentoring the next generation of pioneering doctors as a professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University. “A visiting colleague asked me how I divide my time,” says Costa. “I don’t divide it, I mix it. I might start the day in a business suit at a meeting, change into scrubs for surgery, then into a lab coat for teaching. There is always a plan, but the only thing I know is that each day the plan will be totally different.” 34 SHAKERONLINE.COM | WINTER 2017
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