Samuel D. Slavin, MD
Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine




Dr. Samuel Slavin is a general cardiologist who practices at Boston Medical Center and the Codman Square Community Health Center. His clinical and academic work leverage longitudinal relationships, patient narratives, and community connectedness to foster better cardiovascular health. After studying history and literature at Yale University, he fell in love with medicine while working at rural health centers in the Caribbean and as a community health worker in Boston. He graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and cardiovascular medicine fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he served as Chief Fellow. Dr. Slavin speaks Haitian Creole, French, Spanish and some Portuguese. His interests including endocarditis, the cardiovascular impact of substance use, community-based cardiovascular care, and narrative medicine. His narrative writing has been published in Health Affairs, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

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  1. Slavin SD, Berman AN, Beam AL, Navar AM, Mittleman MA. Statin Twitter: Human and Automated Bot Contributions, 2010 to 2022. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Apr 02; 13(7):e032678. PMID: 38533942; PMCID: PMC11179764; DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.123.032678;
     
  2. Slavin SD. Broken Both Ways. N Engl J Med. 2024 Jan 18; 390(3):199-201. PMID: 38226844; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2311650;
     
  3. Slavin SD, Berman AN, Gaba P, Hoshi RA, Mittleman MA. Influenza vaccination and use of lipid lowering therapies in adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: An analysis of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). Am Heart J. 2024 Feb; 268:1-8. PMID: 37956919; PMCID: PMC10841584; DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2023.11.007;
     
  4. Slavin SD, Khera R, Zafar SY, Nasir K, Warraich HJ. Financial burden, distress, and toxicity in cardiovascular disease. Am Heart J. 2021 Aug; 238:75-84. PMID: 33961830; DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2021.04.011;
     
  5. Slavin SD. Doctoring and Deportation. JAMA. 2020 Jan 14; 323(2):119-120. PMID: 31935032; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2019.21005;
     
  6. Slavin SD, Allen LA, McIlvennan CK, Desai AS, Schaefer KG, Warraich HJ. Left Ventricular Assist Device Withdrawal: Ethical, Psychological, and Logistical Challenges. J Palliat Med. 2020 Apr; 23(4):456-458. PMID: 31895635; DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2019.0622;
     
  7. Slavin SD, Warraich HJ. The right time for palliative care in heart failure: a review of critical moments for palliative care intervention. Rev Esp Cardiol (Engl Ed). 2020 Jan; 73(1):78-83. PMID: 31611151; DOI: 10.1016/j.rec.2019.07.013;
     
  8. Slavin SD, Fenech A, Jankowski AL, Abel GA, Brunner AM, Steensma DP, Fathi AT, DeAngelo DJ, Wadleigh M, Hobbs GS, Amrein PC, Stone RM, Temel JS, El-Jawahri A. Outcomes for older adults with acute myeloid leukemia after an intensive care unit admission. Cancer. 2019 Nov 01; 125(21):3845-3852. PMID: 31299106; PMCID: PMC6788935; DOI: 10.1002/cncr.32397;
     
  9. Slavin S. Opening a channel: finding connection and healing beyond the clinic. Health Aff (Millwood). 2014 Nov; 33(11):2068-71. PMID: 25368002; DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0079;
     
  10. Salant T, Slavin S, Baumrin E, Bordeu M, Rowley M, Brackett E, Severin P, Behforouz H. Lessons in translation: insights from a collaboration integrating community health workers into diabetes care. J Ambul Care Manage. 2013; 36(2):156-65. PMID: 23448922; DOI: 10.1097/JAC.0b013e31827fb325;
     
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2017 Harvard Medical School: Thayer Award for Academic Achievement
2015 Harvard Medical School: Eisenberg Prize for Best Presentation: Medicine in Society
2010 Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center: Superior Service Award, (now Charles River Health)
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