Cornell, 1984
• 1983 Academic All-America First Team - Women's At-Large
• 1984 Academic All-America First Team - Women's At-Large
Ellen Mayer-Sabik was inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Hall of Fame in 1997.
A four-year letter winner and a two-year captain on the women’s gymnastic team at Cornell University, Ellen Mayer-Sabik was also an intelligent student. Mayer-Sabik graduated in 1984 with a degree in biology and a 4.0 grade point average. During her senior year Mayer-Sabik took her gymnastics to a new outstanding level- she won the vaulting title at the NYS championships and was second on balance beam at the Ivy League meet. She averaged 33.6 points per meet in the all-around, and was a co-recipient of the Jill Ryer Award for outstanding leadership. Mayer-Sabik was inducted into the National Honor Society, Phi Beta Kappa; Cornell also inducted her into its University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999. After Cornell, Mayer-Sabik continued her academic excellence at Harvard Medical School and earned a cardiology fellowship to Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital.
Mayer-Sabik was offered an academic appointment as Instructor at Harvard Medical School and as a Clinical Fellow at Cleveland Clinic. She is a resident of Shaker Heights, Ohio, and serves as a staff cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, often working with her husband as a surgical team. Mayer-Sabik is also the author of a chapter in a textbook on intraoperative echocardiography, chapters in the Cardiology Intensive Board Review Questions book and the Cleveland Clinic Intensive Cardiovascular Medicine and Board Review Text, as well as articles and abstracts for professional and scientific journals including Circulation, Journal of Heart Failure and Journal of the American College of Cardiology. She is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and American Society of Echocardiography, and holds membership in the American Heart Association and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.