Emelia J. Benjamin MD, ScM
Associate Provost for Faculty Development, BUMC & Jay and Louise Coffman Professor,
Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine
73 Mt Wayte Ave | (617) 638-8968emelia.benjamin@bmc.org
emelia@bu.edu
Sections
Cardiovascular Medicine
Centers
Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute
Framingham Heart Study
Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
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
Websites
Boston Medical Center Provider Profile
Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Training Program
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
Education
MD, Case Western Reserve University
ScM, Harvard School of Public Health
Publications
Jaiswal V, Ang SP, Kumar D, Deb N, Jaiswal A, Joshi A, Nasir YM, Bandyopadhyay D, Michos ED, Benjamin EJ, Fonarow GC. Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors and Arrhythmias: A Meta-Analysis of 38 Randomized Controlled Trials. JACC Adv. 2025 Mar; 4(3):101615. PMID: 39985887.
Published on 2/22/2025Siegel NA, Zhao J, Benjamin EJ, Bhatnagar A, Hall JL, Stokes AC. Identifying Patterns of Tobacco Use and Associated Cardiovascular Disease Risk Through Machine Learning Analysis of Urine Biomarkers. JACC Adv. 2025 Mar; 4(3):101630. PMID: 39985885.
Published on 2/18/2025Ashburner JM, Tack RWP, Khurshid S, Turner AC, Atlas SJ, Singer DE, Ellinor PT, Benjamin EJ, Trinquart L, Lubitz SA, Anderson CD. Impact of a clinical atrial fibrillation risk estimation tool on cardiac rhythm monitor utilization following acute ischemic stroke: A prepost clinical trial. Am Heart J. 2025 Feb 18; 284:57-66. PMID: 39978665.
Published on 2/14/2025Iyer KR, Clarke SL, Guarischi-Sousa R, Gjoni K, Heath AS, Young EP, Stitziel NO, Laurie C, Broome JG, Khan AT, Lewis JP, Xu H, Montasser ME, Ashley KE, Hasbani NR, Boerwinkle E, Morrison AC, Chami N, Do R, Rocheleau G, Lloyd-Jones DM, Lemaitre RN, Bis JC, Floyd JS, Kinney GL, Bowden DW, Palmer ND, Benjamin EJ, Nayor M, Yanek LR, Kral BG, Becker LC, Kardia SLR, Smith JA, Bielak LF, Norwood AF, Min YI, Carson AP, Post WS, Rich SS, Herrington D, Guo X, Taylor KD, Manson JE, Franceschini N, Pollard KS, Mitchell BD, Loos RJF, Fornage M, Hou L, Psaty BM, Young KA, Regan EA, Freedman BI, Vasan RS, Levy D, Mathias RA, Peyser PA, Raffield LM, Kooperberg C, Reiner AP, Rotter JI, Jun G, de Vries PS, Assimes TL. Unveiling the Genetic Landscape of Coronary Artery Disease Through Common and Rare Structural Variants. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Feb 18; 14(4):e036499. PMID: 39950338.
Published on 2/7/2025Li X, Chen H, Selvaraj MS, Van Buren E, Zhou H, Wang Y, Sun R, McCaw ZR, Yu Z, Jiang MZ, DiCorpo D, Gaynor SM, Dey R, Arnett DK, Benjamin EJ, Bis JC, Blangero J, Boerwinkle E, Bowden DW, Brody JA, Cade BE, Carson AP, Carlson JC, Chami N, Chen YI, Curran JE, de Vries PS, Fornage M, Franceschini N, Freedman BI, Gu C, Heard-Costa NL, He J, Hou L, Hung YJ, Irvin MR, Kaplan RC, Kardia SLR, Kelly TN, Konigsberg I, Kooperberg C, Kral BG, Li C, Li Y, Lin H, Liu CT, Loos RJF, Mahaney MC, Martin LW, Mathias RA, Mitchell BD, Montasser ME, Morrison AC, Naseri T, North KE, Palmer ND, Peyser PA, Psaty BM, Redline S, Reiner AP, Rich SS, Sitlani CM, Smith JA, Taylor KD, Tiwari HK, Vasan RS, Viali S, Wang Z, Wessel J, Yanek LR, Yu B, Dupuis J, Meigs JB, Auer PL, Raffield LM, Manning AK, Rice KM, Rotter JI, Peloso GM, Natarajan P, Li Z, Liu Z, Lin X. A statistical framework for multi-trait rare variant analysis in large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies. Nat Comput Sci. 2025 Feb; 5(2):125-143. PMID: 39920506.
Published on 2/5/2025Cooper LL, Majid S, Wang N, Fetterman JL, Palmisano JN, Benjamin EJ, Vasan RS, Mitchell GF, Hamburg NM. Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of smoking behaviour with central arterial haemodynamic measures: the Framingham Heart Study. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2025 Feb 05. PMID: 39907713.
Published on 1/30/2025Tack RWP, Tan BYQ, Senff JR, Prapiadou S, Kimball TN, Khurshid S, Ashburner JM, Jurgens SJ, Singh SD, Weng LC, Gunn S, Roselli C, Lunetta KL, Benjamin EJ, Ellinor PT, Rosand J, Mayerhofer E, Lubitz SA, Anderson CD. Predicting Atrial Fibrillation After Stroke by Combining Polygenic Risk Scores and Clinical Features. Stroke. 2025 Apr; 56(4):878-886. PMID: 39882610.
Published on 1/28/2025Ko D, Chung MK, Evans PT, Benjamin EJ, Helm RH. Atrial Fibrillation: A Review. JAMA. 2025 Jan 28; 333(4):329-342. PMID: 39680399.
Published on 1/27/2025Yao Z, Tasdighi E, Dardari ZA, Jha KK, Osuji N, Rajan T, Boakye E, Rodriguez CJ, Matsushita K, Simonsick EM, Lima JAC, Widome R, Cohen DL, Appel LJ, Khera A, Hall ME, Judd S, Cole SA, Vasan RS, Benjamin EJ, Bhatnagar A, DeFilippis AP, Blaha MJ. Differential Associations of Cigar, Pipe, and Smokeless Tobacco Use Versus Combustible Cigarette Use With Subclinical Markers of Inflammation, Thrombosis, and Atherosclerosis: The Cross-Cohort Collaboration-Tobacco Working Group. Circulation. 2025 Jan 27. PMID: 39866105.
Published on 1/21/2025Frederiksen TC, Christiansen MK, Benjamin EJ, Olsen A, Jensen HK, Dahm CC. Temporal order of atrial fibrillation and acute myocardial infarction and associated prognosis in the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort. Open Heart. 2025 Jan 21; 12(1). PMID: 39842938.
Media Mentions
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People of Color, and Women Remain Significantly Underrepresented in Cardiovascular Healthcare
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Brookline resident honored by Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine
Published on 12/5/2019
Boston University Professor Emelia Benjamin Earns Two Awards From the American Heart Association
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