Emelia J. Benjamin MD, ScM

Associate Provost for Faculty Development, BUMC & Jay and Louise Coffman Professor,

Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine

73 Mt Wayte Ave | (617) 638-8968
Emelia Benjamin
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

Education

MD, Case Western Reserve University

ScM, Harvard School of Public Health

Publications

Published on 2/5/2025

Cooper 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 1/30/2025

Tack RW, Tan BY, 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 Jan 30. PMID: 39882610.

Published on 1/28/2025

Ko 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 1/27/2025

Yao 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 1/21/2025

Frederiksen 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.

Published on 1/18/2025

Du Y, Pohlmann JE, Chatzidakis S, Brush B, Malinger LA, Stafford RA, Cervantes-Arslanian AM, Benjamin EJ, Gilmore EJ, Dupuis J, Greer DM, Smirnakis SM, Mohammed S, Ong CJ. Quantitative Pupillometry Predicts Neurologic Deterioration in Patients with Large Middle Cerebral Artery Stroke. Ann Neurol. 2025 Jan 18. PMID: 39825740.

Published on 1/9/2025

Magavern EF, Deshmukh H, Asselin G, Theusch E, Trompet S, Li X, Noordam R, Chen YI, Seeman TE, Taylor KD, Post WS, Tardif JC, Paul DS, Benjamin EJ, Heard-Costa NL, Vasan RS, Rotter JI, Krauss RM, Jukema JW, Ridker PM, Munroe PB, Caulfield MJ, Chasman DI, Dubé MP, Hitman GA, Warren HR. GWAS of CRP response to statins further supports the role of APOE in statin response: A GIST consortium study. Pharmacol Res. 2025 Jan 09; 212:107575. PMID: 39798939.

Published on 1/2/2025

Tasdighi E, Yao Z, Jha KK, Dardari ZA, Osuji N, Rajan T, Boakye E, Rodriguez CJ, Matsushita K, Simonsick EM, Lima JAC, Widome R, Cohen D, Appel LJ, Khera A, Hall ME, Judd S, Cole SA, Ramachandran VS, Benjamin EJ, Bhatnagar A, DeFilippis AP, Blaha MJ. Cigar, Pipe, and Smokeless Tobacco Use and Cardiovascular Outcomes From Cross Cohort Collaboration. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Jan 02; 8(1):e2453987. PMID: 39804647.

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.

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.

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