Andrea Cheville, MD

Dr. Cheville is professor and chair of research in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation on Mayo Clinic’s Rochester campus, where she directs the cancer rehabilitation and lymphedema clinic. She is medical director for the Care Experience Program in the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery.

Dr. Cheville earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1993 and her master of science degree in clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. She is board‐certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain medicine, and hospice and palliative medicine.

In June 2016, she was appointed to the Health Services Organization and Delivery Study Section in the National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review. This group, which is made up of experts in health care delivery, reviews complex and multidisciplinary grant applications for possible funding.

“Dr. Cheville’s research has brought significant improvements in identifying, preventing and remediating disability in people with chronic illness,” Dr. Noseworthy says. “Her work has led to innovations in clinical practice at our cancer rehabilitation and lymphedema clinic, namely integrating palliative principles into the holistic rehabilitation of patients with late-stage cancer.”

Dr. Cheville also has worked extensively with trainees characterizing the epidemiology of function loss, developing algorithms to predict disability and extending collaborative care models to the delivery of function-directed care.