Dr. Emelia Benjamin Promoted to Associate Provost, BUMC Faculty Development

Dr. Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, FACC, FAHA, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at BUSM and BUSPH, and a clinical cardiologist at BMC, has been promoted from Assistant to Associate Provost, BUMC Faculty Development. Dr. Benjamin is deeply engaged in the professional development of health care professionals and has a fundamental commitment to mentoring majority […]

Cardiology Grand Rounds

4/7/2021-     Topic: Halting Relative Hyperaldosteronism As A Strategy For Attenuating Chronic kidney disease And Cardiovascular Events George Bakris, MD Professor of Medicine Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition, The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL

Cardiology Grand Rounds

3/31/2021-   Topic: “Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Impact on Atherosclerosis and MACE Tomas Neilan, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Director, Cardio-Oncology Program Co-Director, Cardiac MR PET CT Program Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA

Dr. Rick Ruberg named Senior Associate Editor of Circulation

Dr. Rick Ruberg has been named the Senior Associate Editor of Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging effective July 1, 2021. With this prestigious role with the journal, Dr. Ruberg will continue the work he launched last fall to provide  peer review training programs that mentors senior fellow trainees and junior faculty in the peer review process, provide […]

Dr. Emelia Benjamin inducted to the American Association of Physicians

Emelia J Benjamin, MD, ScM has been inducted into the American Association of Physicians (https://aap-online.org). The AAP is an honorary 130-year old society founded by Sir William Osler. The website states “Election to the AAP is an honor extended to physicians with outstanding credentials in basic or translational biomedical research and is limited to 70 […]

Cardiology Grand Rounds

  3/24/2021-   Topic: Challenges in Cardiac and Pulmonary Sarcoidosis.  Maria Giovanna Trivieri, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Cardiovascular Disease, The Mount Sinai Hospital New York, NY

Cardiology Grand Rounds

Wednesdays at Noon For more information please contact Denise Phillips at Denise.Phillips@bmc.org 3/17/2021-Topic: Application of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy QuestionnaireJohn A Spertus, MDLauer Missouri Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri–Kansas CityClinical Director of Outcomes Research at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute- Kansas City, MO      

Dr. Emelia Benjamin Received the 2020 Jerome Klein Award

The Jerome Klein Award for Physician Excellence was established in 2010 to commemorate Klein’s 50 years of service to BUSM/BMC and is presented annually to a physician who shares Dr. Klein’s attributes, including clinical and research excellence, leadership, and dedicated commitment to education and mentoring.

2020 Top Doctors

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