The goal of the Cleveland Clinic’s satellite kidney transplant program “is to provide the best possible care to as many patients as possible,” said Dr. Eric Klein, chairman of the Clinic’s Urological and Kidney Institute. Opening its second satellite kidney transplant location early this year at St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital also is “pure business,” Klein said.

The new chairman of the Cleveland Clinic’s Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute sees himself as an orchestra conductor. “Each of the individual physicians in the institute is an instrument player,” said Dr. Eric Klein, who on Sunday moved into the chairman’s office on the 10th floor of Glickman Tower. “The department chairs and the center directors are the concert masters. And my job as institute chair is to pick the medical themes.

The Cleveland Clinic has named Dr. Eric Klein as chairman of its Glickman Urological and Kidney institute.