Benjamin Medoff

Dr. Benjamin Medoff is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the former Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Medoff received his B.S. from Yale College and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at MGH where he also served as Chief Resident, and then completed his training in Pulmonary and Critical Care in the Harvard Combined Fellowship Program.

Dr. Medoff has long-standing interests in lung immunology, injury and repair. He has an active research program studying mechanisms of lung inflammation as occurs in allergic asthma, COPD, interstitial lung disease, lung transplant rejection, and influenza infection. He also studies mechanisms of lung fibrosis. As part of this work he has investigated the role of T cell signaling and counter-regulatory proteins in pulmonary inflammation, identified novel proteins that bridge innate and adaptive immunity in the lung, and developed models of T cell-mediated pneumonitis. His research program includes cellular immunology and animal modeling of disease as well as translational human studies in subjects with asthma, COPD, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and lung transplantation. In addition, to his research program, Dr. Medoff co-directs a T32 focused on pulmonary immunology and allergy research and remains active clinically in the ICU and pulmonary clinic. Over the past 20 years Dr. Medoff has served on numerous grant review sections and on a Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee for the FDA.