Biography
Dr. Samuel Slavin is a general cardiologist who practices at Boston Medical Center and the Codman Square Community Health Center. His clinical and academic work leverage longitudinal relationships, patient narratives, and community connectedness to foster better cardiovascular health. After studying history and literature at Yale University, he fell in love with medicine while working at rural health centers in the Caribbean and as a community health worker in Boston. He graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and cardiovascular medicine fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he served as Chief Fellow. Dr. Slavin speaks Haitian Creole, French, Spanish and some Portuguese. His interests including endocarditis, the cardiovascular impact of substance use, community-based cardiovascular care, and narrative medicine. His narrative writing has been published in Health Affairs, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the New England Journal of Medicine.