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Benjamin Cherry, MD, FACP

Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)
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Director, Internal Medicine Subinternship

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Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)

Director, Internal Medicine Subinternship

Biography

Benjamin M. Cherry is an academic hospitalist at VA Connecticut and Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine in the Section of General Internal Medicine. He also serves as Director of the Internal Medicine Subinternship for the Department of Internal Medicine. His current teaching and research interests include curricular development for point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and the intersection of clinical care, health systems, and health care policy. He is Co-Chair of VA Connecticut's Clinical Ethics Committee and Co-Team Leader of its Scarce Resource Allocation team. He established VA Connecticut's first COVID-19 video follow-up clinic to monitor recovery and symptom recurrence following hospitalization for COVID-19. He serves as Health and Public Policy Chair for the Connecticut chapter of the American College of Physicians, and as Emergency Medical Services commissioner for the town of Woodbridge.

Dr. Cherry completed his Internal Medicine residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital where he was honored with the Ralph I. Horwitz Research in Residency award, the West Haven VA Clinic award, and the Yale-New Haven Hospital Medical Staff Patient Experience award. As faculty, he has been recognized with the Asghar Rastegar VA Teacher of the Year Award, given by the Yale Internal Medicine housestaff in recognition of his contributions to their residency education.

He received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, where he graduated with Honors, Distinction in Research, and was recognized with the Noether Memorial Fund Award for excellence in the area of therapeutics. During the 2011-2012 academic year, he won a competitive research fellowship at National Cancer Institute where he studied progression risk models and precursor states to the plasma cell malignancy multiple myeloma in the lab of Ola Landgren, M.D., Ph.D. He co-authored the protocol and served as associate investigator for NCI trial #NCT01675141, which studied the effect of maintenance lenalidomide on the immune cells of patients with multiple myeloma. He met his wife, Rachel, at Northwestern University; they remain purple-blooded alumni.

Appointments

Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

Fellow
Yale School of Medicine (2025)
Resident Physician
Yale-New Haven Hospital (2016)
Intern
Yale-New Haven Hospital (2014)
MD
Case Western Reserve University (2013)
Fellow
National Institutes of Health (2012)
BA
Northwestern University, Political Science, Int'l Studies (2004)

Board Certifications

  • Internal Medicine

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2017

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Curriculum; Health Policy; Hematologic Neoplasms; Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis; Lung Diseases, Interstitial; Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance; Multiple Myeloma; Paraproteinemias; Quality Improvement

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Benjamin Cherry's published research.

Publications

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2013

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • activity

    American College of Physicians, Connecticut Chapter

  • activity

    Journal of General Internal Medicine

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    American College of Physicians, Connecticut Chapter

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    Intern Selection Committee, Traditional Internal Medicine Residency Program

  • activity

    Program Evaluation Committee, Traditional Internal Medicine Residency Program

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