Kandice Kottke-Marchant, chair of the Department of Pathology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and adjunct professor of biomedical engineering, was a featured panelist at Smart Business’s Perspectives ’12: Women Who Excel event April 13. Kottke-Marchant is chair of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute and section head of clinical pathology at Cleveland Clinic. This year’s theme was “The Power of Perseverance” and also featured alumna Esther Potash, CIO of Olympic Steel.