Jeffrey R. Bender MD
Robert I. Levy Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Immunobiology; Associate Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine

Departments & Organizations
NHLBI ProteomicsBiological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Immunology | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
Yale Medical Group: Heart & Vascular Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Stem Cell Center, Yale: Tissue Specific Stem Cells
Cancer Immunology
Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program
Immunobiology
Skin Diseases Research Center, Yale
Internal Medicine: Cardiology: Clinical Cardiology (Outpatient)YCVRC | Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center
T32 Mentors
Immunology and Immunotherapy
Research Interests
Inflammatory, Immune, Metabolic and Hormonal Effects on the Endothelium
Clinical Interests
Clinical cardiology; preventive cardiology
Education
- M.D., University of California/San Francisco , 1979
Selected Publication
- Zhang, J., Modi, Y., Yarovinsky, T., Yu, J., Collinge, M., Kyriakides, T., Zhu, Z., Sessa, W.C., Pardi, R., Bender, J.R.: Macrophage ß2 integrin-mediated, HuR-dependent stablization of angiogenic-factor encoding mRNAs in inflammatory angiogenesis. Am. J. Pathol. 180:1751-1760, 2012.
Latest Honor and Recognition
- Robert I. Levy Endowed Chair of Preventive Cardiology; Member, American Society of Clinical Investigation; Member, Association of American Physicians; Member, Association of University Cardiologists;
Articles

Winter 2003
On the move on moving day
When cardiovascular researcher Jeffrey Bender and hundreds of his colleagues unpack their labs and offices in the...

Autumn 2011
Oxford American Handbook of Cardiology
edited by Jeffrey R. Bender, M.D., Robert I. Levy Professor of Medicine (cardiology) and professor of immunobiology;...

Spring 2008
After hard times, a student-run journal rides high again as an online publication
When Milton C. Winternitz, M.D., dean of the medical school from 1920 to 1935, conceived of the Yale system of medical...

Spring 2010
Science by Design
After 15 years in his warren of offices and lab space on the sixth floor of the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public...

Winter 2008
A tale of two doctors
John Elefteriades and Larry Cohen have worked together at Yale for 30 years, as student and mentor, as colleagues and,...

Winter 2003
The big move
Relocating 91 laboratories, a magnetic resonance center and the medical school’s teaching facilities across Congress...

Fall/Winter 2004
Reunion 2004
Even as all the traditional trappings of reunion—the Friday evening clambake, the Saturday morning symposium and the...

Spring 2012
Student health project offers blood screening
On a cold Saturday morning in January, dozens of people gathered in the basement of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul...



