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Cleveland CliniC Martin HealtH neWs

Medical Oncologist Robert Less Invasive Option For Obstetrics And Gynecology

Klafter, M.D., MBA, Joins Valve Disease Treatment Specialist George Lee Drake
Cleveland Clinic Martin Offers Benefit With Fewer III, D.O., Joins Cleveland

Health; Will Serve As Medical Risks Clinic Martin Health

Director For Oncology Aortic valve stenosis is one of the most common Cleveland Clinic Martin
and serious conditions affecting the heart’s valves. It Health welcomes board-
Cleveland Clinic Martin is a narrowing of the aortic valve opening, which is the certified obstetrician and
Health welcomes board- passage for oxygen-rich blood to leave the heart and go gynecologist George Lee
certified medical oncologist out into the body. When the valve opening is narrowed, Drake III, D.O.
Robert Klafter, M.D. As the flow of this blood is blocked or reduced. Dr. Drake is now
medical director for oncology This condition is most common in people 65 or older, accepting new patients at
at the Robert and Carol severely affecting nearly 500,000 people in the United Cleveland Clinic Family
Weissman Cancer Center, Dr. States each year. It can cause shortness of breath, chest pain, Health Center, Stuart,
Klafter is eager to enhance the congestive heart failure and, ultimately, death if left untreated. located at 3801 S. Kanner
care that patients can access. A Revolutionary Approach To Treatment Highway. Patients may call
“Cleveland Clinic’s mantra Replacing the diseased valve is the standard treatment (772) 419-3301 to request
is ‘Patients First’ which is for most patients with aortic stenosis. Until recently, an appointment, or they
something I have worked to however, the replacement had to be done through a may also do so online at
do throughout my career,” said surgical procedure in which the patient’s chest was martinhealth.org/obgyn.
Klafter. “I don’t specialize in opened in order to access the heart. Drake’s special interests include normal and high-
lung cancer or breast cancer. Robert Klafter In recent years, the transcatheter aortic valve risk pregnancies, robotic surgery, management of
I specialize in people. I care replacement (TAVR) procedure has revolutionized endometriosis, minimally invasive gynecology and pelvic
about the entire journey from diagnosis to resolution, and am treatment for aortic stenosis. It is minimally invasive, organ prolapse, and pelvic floor repair. Drake completed
humbled to be able to guide patients along an uncertain path.” allowing the surgeon to replace the valve through a medical school at Kentucky College of Osteopathic
Klafter is now accepting new patients at the Robert and Carol catheter placed in the femoral artery, which runs up the Medicine. He completed the Obstetrics and Gynecology
Weissman Cancer Center, located at 501 E. Osceola Street in thigh, through the abdomen and to the heart. Residency Program at the Charleston Area Medical
Stuart. This office is located on the campus of Cleveland Clinic A multitude of studies have shown TAVR to be a safe and Center and West Virginia University.
Martin North Hospital. Patients may call (772) 419-2162 to effective alternative to traditional valve replacement, offering Prior to joining Martin Health, Drake practiced as a
request an appointment. patients minimal risk and discomfort, a shorter hospital stay physician, chairman of the department of OB/GYN Quality
“I love what I do,” said Klafter. “I love being an oncologist. (usually only one or two days versus five to seven days with Review Committee and the director of citizenship and
I love being involved in people’s lives.” the open procedure), and a prompt recovery. professionalism at Cleveland Clinic Akron General in Ohio.
Klafter completed medical school at New York University, “Aortic stenosis is a condition that offers a malignant About Cleveland Clinic Martin Health
where he also completed the residency program in the Department course. As with open heart surgery, this procedure cures Cleveland Clinic Martin Health is part of the Cleveland
of Internal Medicine. Klafter completed the Hematology/ the condition,” says Brett Beecher, M.D., a cardiothoracic Clinic Florida region. It features three hospitals with
Oncology Fellowship program at Emory University. He also surgeon at Cleveland Clinic Martin Health’s Frances 521 total beds, a free-standing emergency center, and
completed the Masters in Business Administration program at Langford Heart Center. “Many centers offer TAVR, but numerous outpatient centers and clinics across Martin
Emory. our team has tremendous expertise and experience in this and St. Lucie counties on Florida’s east coast. Cleveland
Prior to joining Martin Health, Klafter has been an attending type of treatment.” Clinic Martin Health offers preventive, primary and acute
physician in full-time patient practice for 20 years. He was To learn more about heart and vascular services at hospital care, as well as cancer care, a heart center,
recognized multiple times among the “Best Doctors of New Cleveland Clinic Martin Health’s Frances Langford Heart wellness and rehabilitation services, and much more.
York” and “Best Doctors of Atlanta” by New York Magazine Center, visit martinhealth.org/heart or call (844) 630-4968. Learn more at clevelandclinic.org/martinhealth.
and Atlanta Magazine, respectively. Klafter has also served on
the faculty at Mount Sinai School of Medicine/Mount Sinai
Hospital and Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, as well as Emory
University/St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta.
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