Dr. Benjamin Cherry

Biography

Benjamin M. Cherry is an academic hospitalist at VA Connecticut and an Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine in the Section of General Internal Medicine. He serves as the Director of the Internal Medicine Subinternship. His current teaching and research interests focus on curricular development, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), clinical care, health systems, and health care policy. In addition, he is Co-Chair of VA Connecticut's Clinical Ethics Committee and Co-Team Leader of the Scarce Resource Allocation team. Dr. Cherry established VA Connecticut's COVID-19 video follow-up clinic to monitor recovery, symptom recurrence, and hospitalization related to COVID-19. He holds the position of Health Public Policy Chair for the Connecticut chapter of the American College of Physicians. Furthermore, he has received various awards, including the Ralph Horwitz Research Residency award and the Asghar Rastegar VA Teacher of the Year Award for his contributions to residency education. He completed his medical degree at Case Western Reserve University, where he graduated with Honors and received the Noether Memorial Fund Award for excellence in therapeutics. Dr. Cherry engaged in research at the National Cancer Institute, focusing on precursor states and multiple myeloma, and co-authored a protocol for an NCI trial investigating the effects of lenalidomide on immune cells in multiple myeloma patients.

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