Corporate Membership
Partner us to advance health, innovation and opportunity
At Northeast Ohio Medical University, we believe the most meaningful progress happens when higher education, industry, and communities work together.
NEOMED partners with companies and organizations to develop talent, advance health care innovation, support research, strengthen communities and create opportunities for the next generation of health professionals.
Whether your organization is looking to recruit talented health professionals, collaborate with faculty and researchers, invest in students, support community health or develop a strategic partnership, NEOMED can help connect you with the people, programs and expertise to achieve your goals.
Building a strategic partnership
Corporate Membership sustains your commitment to NEOMED’s mission through ongoing, annual support of the Blue Fund with an investment in at least one additional strategic priority selected by your organization. This partnership fosters long-term collaboration, shared impact, and reciprocal benefits that advance NEOMED’s mission while aligning with your organization’s goals.
Join our 2026 Corporate Partners
We are proud to work with organizations that share our commitment to health, education and community impact.
- Huntington Bank
- Oswald
- Clearstead
- Mercy-Youngstown
Why partner with NEOMED?
Every organization has different priorities. That’s why NEOMED takes a customized approach to corporate engagement. Corporate Membership provides a pathway to a strategic partnership that can grow with your interests and priorities, helping your organization connect:
- Health sciences talent in medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and other health-related fields
- Faculty expertise and research addressing complex health and scientific challenges
- Clinical and community partners throughout Northeast Ohio and beyond
- Students and emerging professionals through experiential learning, career development, and recruitment
- Health innovation and entrepreneurship that translate ideas into real-world solutions
- Philanthropic opportunities that advance student success, research and community health
Explore partnership opportunities
Develop the people who will shape the future of healthcare.
Your organization’s success depends on having the right people—and giving them the skills to lead, innovate and continuously improve.
NEOMED Executive Education partners with organizations to provide professional development, leadership development and process improvement training designed around the evolving needs of today’s health care workforce.
From building operational excellence to strengthening leadership and clinical education, NEOMED can help organizations develop their existing workforce while preparing emerging leaders for what comes next.
Workforce development opportunities include:
- Lean Six Sigma for Health Care Operations – Build practical skills in process improvement, operational efficiency, quality and patient-centered care through Yellow Belt and Green Belt training.
- Leadership & Professional Development – Equip health professionals with the knowledge and skills to lead teams, improve systems and drive organizational change.
- Clinical Education – Through the Fellowship in Academic Medicine – Clinical Education (FAME-E), develop expertise in curriculum design, teaching methods, assessment and program leadership.
- Clinical Research & Scholarship – The Fellowship in Academic Medicine – Clinical Research (FAME-R) helps clinicians and health professions educators strengthen their skills as clinical researchers and scholars.
- Health & Well-Being Coaching – Develop professionals who can support behavior change, wellness and improved health outcomes through evidence-based coaching approaches.
- Innovation, Research & Entrepreneurship – The FIRE program provides education, training, resources and mentorship to help innovators move ideas from concept toward commercialization.
- Customized Organizational Training – NEOMED can work with organizations to develop or adapt training opportunities to address specific workforce, leadership, operational or health care challenges.
Built around your organization’s needs
NEOMED Executive Education offers individual registration, group opportunities and organizational partnerships, creating flexibility for employers seeking to develop a single professional, a team or an entire workforce.
Whether your organization is seeking to improve operational performance, strengthen its leadership pipeline, develop clinical educators, expand employee well-being capabilities or cultivate innovation, NEOMED can help create a professional development strategy aligned with your goals.
Partner with NEOMED to develop your workforce, strengthen your organization and improve healthcare.
Empowering professionals, advancing organizations, transforming outcomes.
Collaborate with NEOMED faculty and researchers to address challenges at the intersection of science, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and health care.
Potential opportunities
- Sponsored research
- Faculty-industry collaborations
- Clinical and translational research
- Research sponsorship
- Student research and innovation
- Technology and commercialization opportunities
- Innovation challenges and competitions
- Collaborative health care initiatives
NEOMED’s strategic plan identifies research, innovation, and entrepreneurship as a central priority, with an emphasis on strategic collaborations and translating discovery into meaningful impact.
Explore research & innovation
- NEOMED research, which is organized around seven focus areas, aiming to better understand common health conditions and improve patient care.
- The REDIzone, a life-science business incubator that helps early-stage biomedical startups turn research into reality.
- NEOvations Bench to Bedside, a nationwide, seven-month medical technology competition where students and professionals collaborate to take healthcare innovations from concept to prototype.
- Kinetic, a rising healthcare acceleration partnership between Northeast Ohio Medical University and Bounce Innovation Hub built to launch and scale life-science startups.
- Timken Foundation Medical Design Innovation Center, a comprehensive maker space and educational hub that provides bioinnovators with the advanced tools, engineering support and facilities needed to design, prototype and test medical devices.
- Affiliation between University Hospitals and Northeast Ohio Medical University, which focuses on growing Northeast Ohio’s healthcare workforce, advancing research, leadership development and community care.
Give students the opportunity to apply what they are learning to real-world challenges.
Companies can engage NEOMED students through:
- Internships
- Projects and case challenges
- Mentoring
- Career programming
- Student competitions
- Guest lectures and panels
- Experiential learning
- Scholarships and student support
These experiences help students understand the evolving health care landscape while giving organizations access to emerging talent and fresh perspectives.
Engage with NEOMED talent
- NEOMED Connect matches NEOMED students with university alumni and affiliated healthcare professionals
- Career resources for NEOMED students
Your investment in NEOMED can help prepare the next generation of health professionals, advance research and improve the health of communities across Ohio.
Corporate philanthropy opportunities include:
- Scholarships
- Student success initiatives
- Research and innovation
- Faculty support
- Program sponsorship
- Community health initiatives
- Health workforce development
- Capital and equipment
- Signature events and experiences
- Customized philanthropic partnerships
We work with each organization to identify opportunities that align with its business priorities, community commitments and philanthropic goals.
Explore philanthropic opportunities
NEOMED’s impact extends beyond the classroom.
Through partnerships with health systems, community organizations, businesses, and other institutions, NEOMED students and faculty engage with communities across Northeast Ohio and beyond.
Corporate partners can help address critical health and workforce challenges while creating meaningful opportunities for employees, communities and future health professionals.
Together, we can turn investment into measurable impact.
Partner for community health
- NEOMED Health Care
- NEOvations Rx
- NEOMED Free Clinic
- The Blessed Family Clinic at the Bitonte College of Dentistry
Let's talk!
One conversation can open the door to many possibilities. Let’s explore what’s possible.
