Benjamin Mba, MBBS

Benjamin Mba, MBBS, MRCP (UK), CHCQM, FACP is the Vice Chair, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the Department of Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and the Graduate Medical Education Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion & Associate Designated Institutional Official for Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Mba joined the YSM and YNHH on July 1, 2023.

Before joining Yale, Dr. Mba was the Associate Chair of Medicine for Faculty Development for the Department of Medicine, Cook County Health, Chicago. Dr. Mba was also a Professor of Medicine at Rush Medical College in Chicago. Dr. Mba worked at Cook County Health for 24 years.

Dr. Mba’s career focus has spanned clinical education, diversity, equity, and inclusion advocacy in graduate medical education, residency program leadership, faculty development, quality improvement, and patient safety.

Over the years, Dr. Mba has received several accolades for his clinician educator and mentor role. Dr. Mba was recognized as a Great Teaching Attending in a national research study from the University of Michigan 2017. This exploratory qualitative study identified and studied 12 exemplary teaching physicians nationwide. The findings were published in a book titled Teaching Inpatient Medicine by the Oxford University Press and in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Hospital Medicine and the American Journal of Medicine. Dr. Mba is a four-time recipient of the Sir William Osler Award for teaching internal medicine from the Department of Medicine at Cook County Health (CCH), a four-time recipient of the CCH Division of Hospital Medicine’s Cooker Award for inpatient medicine teaching and team leadership, and a two-time recipient of the Clinical Skills and Scholarship Award as a medicine resident. Dr. Mba is a four-time recipient of the Excellence in Medical Student Education Award from the Department of Medicine, Rush Medical College. He received a National ACP Certificate of Appreciation for National Mentoring Month, recognizing his commitment to mentoring and the positive impact of mentorship within the internal medicine community.

In 2023, the Cook County Health Department of Medicine created the Dr. Benjamin I. Mba Award for Teaching Internal Medicine to honor Dr. Mba's dedication and excellence in clinical teaching. This annual award honors medicine attendings for excellence in clinical teaching.

Dr. Mba has given talks and presented workshops on clinical reasoning at regional and national meetings of the Society of Hospital Medicine and the American College of Physicians. He has been an invited speaker to deliver grand rounds and faculty development workshops at various teaching institutions regionally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Mba has been a blinded discussant on Clinical Care Conundrums published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. He was invited by the American College of Physicians (ACP) to give a national webinar on “Resident Well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic”.

Dr. Mba practices as a hospitalist (inpatient medicine) at YNHH.

Dr. Mba graduated from the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He completed internal medicine residency training in the United Kingdom, obtaining the designation (MRCP (UK) via examination. He completed a second IM residency program and served as Chief Medicine Resident at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago.