Dr. Benjamin H. Lewis

Director of Research & Atria Registry; Cardiology

New York / South Florida

Dr. Benjamin H. Lewis didn’t always know he wanted to be a cardiologist. As the grandson of a physician, Dr. Lewis knew early on that he liked solving problems and wanted to use these skills to help people in the sciences. He was initially drawn to ophthalmology when, at 8 years old, he became the first person in his family to need glasses. But after his father died of a heart attack at age 45, Dr. Lewis developed an interest in cardiology “so that other people wouldn’t have to experience that same loss.”

Today, Dr. Lewis is a board-certified cardiologist who loves helping patients understand their health and what they can do to reduce the risk of heart disease. Dr. Lewis has always been drawn to technology innovations, and as a result, uses state-of-the-art imaging to define and manage disease while minimizing radiation exposure. “You have the most to lose when you’re healthy, so our goal is to prevent the decline in any aspect of cardiovascular health,” he says.

Once patients are armed with the best information about their health, Dr. Lewis focuses on lifestyle factors as the area where they can make the most significant difference in their own well-being. “We have to deliver patient-centric care,” he says. “We have to guide and educate people about why we do what we do. It is our obligation to speak in plain English and make them as knowledgeable as we are.”

Dr. Lewis earned his Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, before heading East for an internship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and his internal medicine residency training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He then completed a two-year fellowship in cardiology at Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

After his fellowship, Dr. Lewis was recruited to the Columbia-Presbyterian East Side downtown outpatient practice. He remained part of the outpatient practice, which was renamed ColumbiaDoctors Midtown, as a cardiologist for the next 40 years, and as an early adopter of relevant technologies in medicine, he helped establish the regular use of ultrasound imaging, including stress echo, outside the hospital setting. During this time, he rose to the rank of Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and was honored as a member of the inaugural class of the Academy of Clinical Excellence.

While at Columbia, he also developed an interest in women’s cardiac health and was involved in the launch of the Partnership for Women’s Health, later renamed the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine.

Dr. Lewis enjoys working at Atria because he has always appreciated opportunities to spend meaningful time with each patient and wanted to develop a multidisciplinary approach, creating individualized health plans and then collaborating with his colleagues to provide comprehensive care. In previous parts of his academic career, Dr. Lewis saw that hospital emergency rooms were often the only options for patients to quickly access care from multiple specialties, and this frustrated him.

“Atria is an opportunity to actually change how medicine is delivered in a coordinated fashion,” he says. “Collectively we hope to reinvent how medicine is practiced in a way that is less expensive, more productive, and more tailored, while preventing late-stage disease that is often a cause for hospital care. Our goal is to generalize this approach to medical practice at our respective large university hospitals and all health care facilities.”

When he’s not working, Dr. Lewis enjoys spending time with his family and friends, biking, and playing golf.

Credentials

Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Attending Physician
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia/Cornell)
Founding Physician
ColumbiaDoctors Midtown
Former Co-Director
ColumbiaDoctors Executive Health Program
Former Member
Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Awards

Castle Connolly Top Doctors
1999-2023
New York Magazine Top Doctors
2021, 2022, 2023
Gender Practioner of the Year
Columbia Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine

Affiliations

Member, Board of Trustees, Salk Institute for Biological Sciences
Board of Trustees, Salk Institute for Biological Sciences

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Dr. Paul Fenyves

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Dr. Daniel Yadegar

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Dr. Bernard M. Kruger

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Dr. Daniel Angerbauer

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Dr. Alex Heromin

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Dr. Evelyn C. Granieri

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Dr. Elizabeth Poynor

Chair of Women’s Health & Gynecology

Dr. Roberta Reilly

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Kyle O’Flaherty

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Jonathan Filipe

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Will Sands

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Peter Modera

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Adam Ross

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Sunny Bozymski

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Christina Schreckengaust

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Dr. Hina J. Talib

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Dr. Cory Kercher

Director of Pediatrics, Atria New York

Dr. Amish Nishawala

Pediatrics

Dr. Robyn Rosenblum

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Dr. Kersha S. Pennicott

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Dr. Samira Brown

Director of Pediatrics, Atria South Florida

Dr. Petra McEwan

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Dr. David W. Dodick

Chief Science & Medical Officer, Atria; Co-Director, Atria Academy of Science & Medicine

Dr. Paul G. Lee

Co-Chair of International Executive Health; Internal Medicine

Dr. Richard S. Isaacson

Director of the Atria Precision Prevention Program

Dr. Lawrence C. Newman

Director of the Atria Brain Health Program

Dr. Jennifer Buczyner

Neurology

Dr. Louis R. DePalo

Medical Director, Atria New York; Internal Medicine; Pulmonology

Dr. Caleb Moore

Medical Director of Atria Palm Beach; Internal Medicine

Dr. Laura Balda

Site Director of Atria Palm Beach; Family Medicine

Dr. Jaime Burkle

Chair of Cardiology

Dr. Benjamin H. Lewis

Director of Research & Atria Registry; Cardiology

Dr. Rony Shimony

Director of Cardiology, Atria New York; Co-Chair of International Executive Health

Dr. Gabrielle Page-Wilson

Director of Endocrinology & Metabolic Health; Internal Medicine

Dr. Jahangir Rahman

Internal Medicine

Dr. Jennifer McGugins Hill

Internal Medicine

Dr. Edward J. Greaney

Internal Medicine

Dr. Yadiera M. Brown

Family Medicine

Dr. Paul Fenyves

Internal Medicine

Dr. Daniel Yadegar

Internal Medicine; Cardiology

Dr. Bernard M. Kruger

Internal Medicine

Dr. Daniel Angerbauer

Preventive Medicine

Robert Kachko

Director of Integrative Health | ND, LAc

Dr. Nicholas D. Caputo

Director of Urgent & Home Care, Atria New York

Dr. Alex Heromin

Director of Urgent & Home Care, Atria Palm Beach; Emergency Medicine

Dr. Evelyn C. Granieri

Director of Geriatrics

Dr. Elizabeth Poynor

Chair of Women’s Health & Gynecology

Dr. Roberta Reilly

Gynecology

Dr. Panta Rouhani Schaffer

Dermatology

Kyle O’Flaherty

Director of Movement | DPT

Jonathan Filipe

Movement | DPT

Will Sands

Movement | MSc

Peter Modera

Movement | PT, DPT

Adam Ross

Nutrition | RD

Sunny Bozymski

Nutrition | MS, RD

Christina Schreckengaust

Nutrition | MPH, RD, CMDR (USN)

Dr. Kelly Fradin

Chair of Pediatrics; Chair of Home Services

Dr. Hina J. Talib

Director of Adolescent Medicine; Co-Director of Pediatrics, Atria New York

Dr. Cory Kercher

Director of Pediatrics, Atria New York

Dr. Amish Nishawala

Pediatrics

Dr. Robyn Rosenblum

Pediatrics

Dr. Kersha S. Pennicott

Pediatrics & Urgent Care

Dr. Samira Brown

Director of Pediatrics, Atria South Florida

Dr. Petra McEwan

Pediatrics

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