Dr. Samuel Slavin

Biography

Dr. Samuel Slavin is an Assistant Professor at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine specializing in Cardiovascular Medicine. He practices as a general cardiologist at Boston Medical Center and Codman Square Community Health Center. His academic work emphasizes the importance of building longitudinal relationships with patients, using their narratives and fostering community connections to enhance cardiovascular health. Dr. Slavin's academic journey includes studying history and literature at Yale University, where he developed a passion for medicine while working in rural health centers as a community health worker in the Caribbean. He graduated from Harvard Medical School, completed an internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a cardiovascular medicine fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he served as Chief Fellow. Dr. Slavin is multilingual, speaking Haitian Creole, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. His research interests lie in endocarditis, the cardiovascular impacts of substance use, community-based cardiovascular care, and narrative medicine. His narrative writing has been published in reputable journals such as Health Affairs, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

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