Dr Benjamin is director of innovation and the former chief medical officer at Ariadne Labs, a joint center of healthcare innovation at Harvard School of Public Health and the Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He is associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and associate professor of Health Policy at Harvard School of Public Health where he does research and teaches quality improvement and patient safety.

At Ariadne Labs, Dr Benjamin helps to lead the projects and programs to design and scale solutions to improve healthcare delivery that relieve suffering and save lives globally. His work to improve transparency, patient safety and reliability in healthcare has been recognized nationally.

Prior to coming to Ariadne, Dr Benjamin was Senior vice president and chief population health officer at Baystate Health, a five-hospital, $3B health system where he led efforts to improve quality, safety, risk and population health for over 20 years. At Baystate, He co-founded The Center for Quality of Research, a health service research center, and TechSpring, the health IT innovation center.

Dr Benjamin began his career as an epidemiologist in the Indian Health Service and US Public Health Service. He received his BA with honors from Williams College, his MD from Case Western Reserve University where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society and his MS in Healthcare Delivery Science from Dartmouth College. He completed an internal medicine residency at Yale New Haven Hospital.