Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM
Associate Provost for Faculty Development, BUMC & Jay and Louise Coffman Professor,
Biography
Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, FACC, FAHA, received her AB at Harvard, her MD at Case Western Reserve University, and her Epidemiology ScM at Harvard School of Public Health. She is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Boston University and is a cardiologist at Boston Medical Center. She is a Robert Dawson Evans Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine.
She is author of over 800 peer-reviewed publications that focus on the genetics, epidemiology, and prognosis of a variety of cardiovascular conditions and markers including atrial fibrillation, vascular function, and systemic inflammation. She has been continuously NIH funded since 1998, and currently is multi-Principal Investigator on an R01 atrial fibrillation grant [2R01HL092577], several chronic pain grants, and is the Training Director on the Boston University American Heart Association Strategically Focused Research Network on Cardio-Oncology. She is an internationally recognized expert on the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation. Dr. Benjamin has Co-Chaired the NIH National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes’ (NHLBI) Atrial Fibrillation Working Group, which advised the NHLBI’s atrial fibrillation research agenda, and resulted in 6 publications.
Dr. Benjamin has conducted research at the Framingham Study since 1988. She is a Member of the Executive Committee, and is Co-Director of the Medical Endpoints Committee. She was Principal Investigator of the grant that recruited the second generation of the Framingham Study’s ethnic/racial minority cohort, the Omni Study.
In addition to her research, she is the inaugural Associate Provost for Faculty Development for Boston University Medical Campus, and the inaugural Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Diversity, BU Department of Medicine. She co-designed and co-leads Faculty Development Programs for Early, Mid-Career, Under-Represented Ethnic and Racial, Women, and Clinical Leaders. In 2023 she completed the Columbia University Advanced Coaching Certification.
A passionate and dedicated mentor, she has won local and national awards for mentoring, education, and research. She was inducted into the Association of American Physicians and she won the 2020 Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award.
An active volunteer for the American Heart Association since 1992, she has served on a variety of local and national Committees. She is Past-Chair of the American Heart Association’s Functional Genomics and Translational Biology Council and Study Section, and the annual Heart and Stroke Statistical Update. She received the 2015 Paul Dudley White Award, the 2016 AHA Gold Heart Award, the 2016 Population Research Prize, the 2019 Laennec Clinician/ Educator Lecturer, and the Genomics and Precision Medicine 2019 Distinguished Achievement Award, and the 2022 Distinguished Scientist Award.
Other Positions
- Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
- Professor, Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health
- Primary Investigator, Framingham Heart Study
- Member, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University
- Member, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, Boston University
Websites
- BU Profile
- Boston Medical Center Provider Profile
- Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Training Program
- Google Scholar
- ResearchGate
- Building Your CV and Criteria for Academic Promotion | Presentation
- Committing to the Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation
- Dr Emelia J. Benjamin: Atrial Fibrillation Is Common and Increasing in Incidence
- Case Western Reserve University Alumni Award
Education
- Case Western Reserve University, MD
- Harvard School of Public Health, ScM
Publications
- Published on 1/2/2025
Weng LC, Rämö JT, Jurgens SJ, Khurshid S, Chaffin M, Hall AW, Morrill VN, Wang X, Nauffal V, Sun YV, Beer D, Lee S, Nadkarni GN, Duong T, Wang B, Czuba T, Austin TR, Yoneda ZT, Friedman DJ, Clayton A, Hyman MC, Judy RL, Skanes AC, Orland KM, Treu TM, Oetjens MT, Alonso A, Soliman EZ, Lin H, Lunetta KL, van der Pals J, Issa TZ, Nafissi NA, May HT, Leong-Sit P, Roselli C, Choi SH, Khan HR, Knight S, Karlsson Linnér R, Bezzina CR, Ripatti S, Heckbert SR, Gaziano JM, Loos RJF, Psaty BM, Smith JG, Benjamin EJ, Arking DE, Rader DJ, Shah SH, Roden DM, Damrauer SM, Eckhardt LL, Roberts JD, Cutler MJ, Shoemaker MB, Haggerty CM, Cho K, Palotie A, Wilson PWF, Ellinor PT, Lubitz SA. The impact of common and rare genetic variants on bradyarrhythmia development. Nat Genet. 2025 Jan 02. PMID: 39747593.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/31/2024
Rong J, Pathiravasan CH, Zhang Y, Faro JM, Wang X, Schramm E, Borrelli B, Benjamin EJ, Liu C, Murabito JM. Baseline Smartphone App Survey Return in the Electronic Framingham Heart Study Offspring and Omni 1 Study: eCohort Study. JMIR Aging. 2024 Dec 31; 7:e64636. PMID: 39740111.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/21/2024
Horwitz MEM, Dugas JN, McCloskey L, So-Armah K, Yarrington CD, Buitronde la Vega P, Benjamin EJ, Battaglia TA. Associations between health-related social needs and postpartum linkage to care. Am J Prev Med. 2024 Dec 21. PMID: 39716509.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/29/2024
Wu J, Ranker LR, Origgi JM, Ma J, Hao D, Benjamin EJ, Cornacchione Ross J, Xuan Z, Wijaya D, Fetterman JL, Hong T. Protecting historically marginalized groups or targeted marketing? A computational analysis of individuals engaging with public and protected cigar-branded tweets. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2025 Jan 01; 266:112516. PMID: 39689499.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/12/2024
Berlowitz JB, Xie W, Harlow AF, Kathuria H, Benjamin EJ, Stokes AC. Association of Cigarette-E-Cigarette Transitions With Respiratory Symptom Resolution. Nicotine Tob Res. 2024 Nov 12. PMID: 39528433.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/8/2024
Shapira-Daniels A, King DS, Reisner SL, Beach LB, Eromosele OB, Ravichandran S, Helm RH, Benjamin EJ, Streed CG. Prevalence of Cardiac Arrhythmias in Transgender and Nonbinary Adult Community Health Center Patients. LGBT Health. 2024 Nov 08. PMID: 39514251.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/1/2024
Moreira-Bouchard JD, Cunha J, Tao BS, Kim H, Lepson J, Nessen E, Milstone ZJ, Fisher N, Clinton N, Roberts LM, Serrano MA, Gopal DM, Benjamin EJ, So-Armah K, Fetterman JL. Creating Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Statements for Your CV: A Resource Guide to Effectiveness and Comprehensiveness. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2024 Nov 01. PMID: 39485298.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/24/2024
Yao Z, Tasdighi E, Dardari ZA, Erhabor J, Jha KK, Osuji N, Rajan T, Boakye E, Rodriguez CJ, Lima JAC, Judd SE, Feldman T, Fialkow JA, Vasan RS, El Shahawy O, Benjamin EJ, Bhatnagar A, DeFilippis AP, Nasir K, Blaha MJ. Use of e-cigarettes, traditional combustible cigarettes, and high sensitivity C-reactive protein: The Cross Cohort Collaboration. Am Heart J. 2025 Feb; 280:1-6. PMID: 39461654.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/21/2024
Pirruccello JP, Khurshid S, Lin H, Weng LC, Zamirpour S, Kany S, Raghavan A, Koyama S, Vasan RS, Benjamin EJ, Lindsay ME, Ellinor PT. The AORTA Gene score for detection and risk stratification of ascending aortic dilation. Eur Heart J. 2024 Oct 21; 45(40):4318-4332. PMID: 39132911.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/1/2024
Yogeswaran V, Wiggins KL, Sitlani CM, Ilkhanoff L, Benjamin EJ, Heckbert SR, Kassahun-Yimer W, Floyd JS. Resting Heart Rate and Incident Atrial Fibrillation in Black Adults in the Jackson Heart Study. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Oct 01; 7(10):e2442319. PMID: 39476232.
Read at: PubMed
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