Emelia J. Benjamin MD, ScM
Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Development 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 the Jay and Louise Coffman Professor in Vascular Medicine Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine.
She is author of over 950 peer-reviewed publications that focus on the epidemiology, genetics, and prognosis of a variety of cardiovascular conditions and markers including atrial fibrillation, vascular function, systemic inflammation, digital health, and chronic pain. She has been continuously NIH funded since 1998, and currently is contact multi-Principal Investigator on the NIH Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH 1K12AR085635). She is an internationally recognized expert on the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation. Dr. Benjamin 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 was the inaugural Associate Provost for Faculty Development for Boston University Medical Campus (until medical campus Provosts were eliminated at BUMC 2025), and the inaugural Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs, 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, diversity, 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, the 2022 Distinguished Scientist Award, and the 2025 Eugene Braunwald Academic Mentoring 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
Wong DH, Lui JK, Benjamin EJ. Integrating coaching activities into the educator portfolio. Acad Med. 2026 Oct 01; 101(10):1317-1318. PMID: 42068565.
Published on 9/24/2026Cooper LL, Banerjee A, Beiser AS, Charisis S, Hamel-Sellman DJ, Korzinski TJ, Benjamin EJ, Hamburg NM, Vasan RS, Seshadri S, Mitchell GF. Associations of Brain Structure and Neuropsychological Function With Artificial Intelligence Estimates of Biological Vascular Age. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2026 Sep 24. PMID: 42779540.
Published on 9/14/2026Habib AY, Okazaki RA, Prescott BR, Xanthakis V, Cooper LL, Tsao CW, Benjamin EJ, Vasan RS, Hamburg NM, Mitchell GF. Relations of Menopause Timing With Pressure Pulsatility in the Framingham Study. Hypertension. 2026 Sep 14. PMID: 42734062.
Published on 8/31/2026Jha M, Dong Z, Meagher S, Spartano NL, Benjamin EJ, Vasan RS, Mitchell GF, Tsao CW. Association of physical activity with arterial stiffness and pulsatility in a community-based cohort. Vasc Med. 2026 Oct; 31(5):629-638. PMID: 42671086.
Published on 8/30/2026Mulligan MD, Wang R, Yang Q, Beiser AS, Maillard P, Satizabal C, Ghosh S, Tanner J, Johnson KA, DeCarli C, Tracy RP, Levy D, Benjamin EJ, El Fakhri G, Vasan RS, Seshadri S, McGrath ER. Mid-life candidate vascular plasma biomarkers are associated with MRI markers of vascular brain injury and amyloid- and tau-PET in cognitively healthy adults. J Alzheimers Dis. 2026 Oct; 113(4):1674-1699. PMID: 42669799.
Published on 8/26/2026Kornej J, Benjamin EJ, Ellinor PT, Lin H, Trinquart L, Haimovich JS, Khurshid S, Lubitz SA, Preis SR. Epidemiology of pacemaker implantation in the community: findings from the Framingham Heart Study. Int J Cardiol Heart Vasc. 2026 Oct; 66:101984. PMID: 42699625.
Published on 8/20/2026Zoccali C, Kovesdy C, Mallamaci F, Winkelmayer WC, Benjamin EJ. Chronic kidney disease, atrial fibrillation, and stroke: risk scores in the era of SGLT2i, non-steroidal MRA, and GLP-1 RA, and presence of high competing mortality. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2026 Aug 20. PMID: 42622348.
Published on 8/17/2026Benjamin EJ, Marcus GM, Hess PL, Addison D, Akar J, Brownell NK, Chyou JY, Derington CG, Diekemper RL, Frankel DS, Hu GS, Ibeh C, Jackson LR, Joynt Maddox KE, Turchioe MR, Tisdale JE, Yang E. 2026 AHA/ACC Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2026 Aug 17. PMID: 42608866.
Published on 8/17/2026Benjamin EJ, Marcus GM, Hess PL, Addison D, Akar J, Brownell NK, Chyou JY, Derington CG, Diekemper RL, Frankel DS, Hu GS, Ibeh C, Jackson LR, Joynt Maddox KE, Turchioe MR, Tisdale JE, Yang E. 2026 AHA/ACC Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Performance Measures. Circ Popul Health Outcomes. 2026 Sep; 19(9):e000149. PMID: 42607116.
Published on 8/14/2026Frost L, Frederiksen TC, Johnsen SP, Benjamin EJ, Pedersen OD, Trinquart L, Vinter N. Electrical cardioversion for atrial fibrillation: nationwide trends in Denmark, 2010-2022. Open Heart. 2026 Aug 14; 13(2). PMID: 42601168.
Media Mentions
Published on 12/23/2023
Top 5 Heart Failure Content of 2023
Published on 9/27/2023
Framingham Heart Study celebrates 75th anniversary
Published on 7/23/2023
Dr Emelia J. Benjamin: Atrial Fibrillation Is Common and Increasing in Incidence
Published on 6/4/2023
ASPC announces program for annual Congress on CVD Prevention
Published on 12/21/2022
Left Atrial Dysfunction Tied to Cerebral Infarcts in Absence of Prior AF, Stroke
Published on 12/7/2022
Published on 10/14/2020
People of Color, and Women Remain Significantly Underrepresented in Cardiovascular Healthcare
Published on 6/15/2020
Vitamin K may offer protective health benefits as we age, study suggests
Published on 4/13/2020
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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