BUMC Faculty Development Appointments

I am writing to share that Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, FACC, FAHA, professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at BUSM and BUSPH, and a clinical cardiologist at BMC, has been appointed BUMC Assistant Provost for Faculty Development. Robina M. Bhasin, EdM, also has been appointed BUMC Director of Faculty Development.

Dr. Benjamin is deeply engaged in the professional development of health care professionals and has a fundamental commitment to mentoring majority and underrepresented minority early-career, mid-career and established investigators in epidemiology, genetic epidemiology and academic medicine. She has co-developed and led faculty development efforts on the Medical Campus with her colleagues at GSDM, BUSPH and BUSM over the last five years, and also led an ACE/Sloan Foundation on Faculty Flexibility, which focused on mid-career faculty development.

Dr. Benjamin is co-PI of the Framingham Heart Study core contract, and PI or Multi-PI of ~10 RO1s since 1998, including a current MPI grant on the genetics of atrial fibrillation. She has published more than 400 original research articles and is listed on the Thomson Reuters List of Highly Cited Researchers (top 1%) in medicine.

She also is the recipient of multiple honors, including the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Paul Dudley White Award, AHA Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award, AHA Functional Genomics and Translational Biology Mentoring Awards, and Department of Medicine mentoring and inpatient teaching awards.

Robina M. Bhasin, EdM, our new director of Faculty Development, came to BUSM in 2013 as the director of Faculty Development and Diversity for the Department of Medicine. She has more than 12 years of experience in the creation, implementation and evaluation of domestic and international professional development programs for health practitioners and educators.

Together they will continue to focus on improving the breadth of professional development and mentoring programs for our Medical Campus faculty.

Karen Antman, MD
Provost, Boston University Medical Campus
Dean, School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine