Benjamin Medoff

Dr. Medoff is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the former Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Medoff received his B.S. from Yale University and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at MGH where he also served as Chief Resident, and then completed his training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Harvard Combined Fellowship Program. Dr. Medoff has long-standing interests in lung immunology, injury and repair. He has an active research program studying mechanisms of lung inflammation as occurs in allergic asthma, COPD, interstitial lung disease, lung transplant rejection and influenza infection. Over the past 20 years Dr. Medoff has served on numerous grant review sections and on the Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee for the FDA. Dr. Medoff has published 79 papers in peer reviewed journals including very high impact journals, namely, Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and has an H-index of 38 (Google Scholar).