Benjamin A. Steinberg, MD, MHS is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist, Director of Electrophysiology at Denver Health Medical Center, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and a faculty member of CPC Clinical Research. He received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Cornell University and his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. During medical school, he served as a Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Fellow with the TIMI Study Group in the Cardiovascular Division of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Steinberg then completed internal medicine residency on the Osler Medical Service at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and fellowships in cardiovascular disease, clinical research, and clinical cardiac electrophysiology at Duke University Hospital and the Duke Clinical Research Institute. At Duke, he earned a Master’s of Health Sciences in clinical research.
Throughout his career, Dr. Steinberg has led cardiovascular clinical research across numerous domains and settings. Among many projects at the TIMI Study Group, he led the ExTRACT-TIMI 25 Registry of patients with acute coronary syndromes excluded from the randomized trial. At the Duke Clinical Research Institute, he worked on the ROCKET AF clinical trial program, and helped lead the ORBIT-AF registry program, in addition to numerous other investigations. More recently, his research has been supported by grants from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Dr. Steinberg also served as the PI and steering committee chairman for the PEAKS registry of intravenous sotalol and was a steering committee member for the CHANGE-Afib clinical trial. His current research is geared towards personalizing diagnosis and treatments for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and other heart rhythm disorders.
Dr. Steinberg has authored or co-authored more than 150 books, chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and editorials in leading journals such as Jama, The New England Journal of Medicine, The European Heart Journal, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Jama Cardiology, and Heart Rhythm. He is an Assistant Editor for the Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology; on the Editorial Board of the journals Pace: Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, HeartRhythm Case Reports, and The American Heart Journal; and on the Atrial Fibrillation Advisory Board, for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. Dr. Steinberg is board certified in Internal Medicine, with subspecialty and maintenance of certification in Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is a member of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS). He currently serves on the Oversite Committee for the ACC’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry program.