Emelia Benjamin, MD, ScM

Dr. Benjamin is a Boston University Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, the Coffman Professor of Vascular Medicine, and is a foremost international expert on the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation (AF). She co-led the National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes’ AF Research Working Group, defining future research directions. A Framingham Study investigator, she has been NIH funded since 1998 on grants related to AF, vascular function, inflammation, mobile health, and chronic pain. She has published >950 peer-reviewed articles and is a Highly Cited Researcher since with an h index over 220. SShe has volunteered for the American Heart Association (AHA) since the 1990s and led diverse research fellowships for the AHA since 2013.

She is the inaugural Associate Dean, interim, for Faculty Development, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and co-designed and facilitates multiple longitudinal faculty development programs for the Boston University Medical Campus.

She has won national awards for research, education, mentoring, and diversity. She was awarded the 2020 Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine’s Diversity and Inclusion Award. She was inducted into the Association of American Physicians in 2021. She has also been awarded the American Heart Association’s 2022 Distinguished Scientist and the 2025 Eugene Braunwald Academic Mentoring Awards.

She was the 2021 recipient of the Eric N. Prystowsky, MD Advocate for Patients Award from StopAfib.org.