A little over six months ago Dr. James Levine was University Hospitals Case Medical Center’s prestigious new recruit – a rockstar doctor from Mayo Clinic who helped pioneer the treadmill desk and won international acclaim as a groundbreaking obesity researcher.Now, Levine has gone back to Mayo, leaving in his wake lots of unanswered questions about [...]

Muve was Minnesota’s “breakthrough business idea” of 2007. The obesity-fighting fitness device concept was the unanimous winner of that year’s Minnesota Cup contest, earning it prize money and piles of positive press. Not only that, the startup had a big-name partner behind it in the Mayo Clinic. So why did the company fail?

Cleveland’s newest rock-star doctor has some new ideas on fighting obesity and improving health that are unconventional, innovative — and a bit weird. Dr. James Levine calls his ideas “The Cleveland Project,” and they add up to an ambitious and far-reaching public health plan.

University Hospitals Case Medical Center has appointed a renowned obesity expert and Mayo Clinic veteran as the new chief of its endocrinology division.