Samuel D. Slavin, MD

Dr. Samuel Slavin is a general cardiologist at Boston Medical Center and the Codman Square Community Health Center. His clinical and academic work leverages longitudinal relationships, patient narratives, and community connectedness to improve cardiovascular health. After studying history and literature at Yale, 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, autoimmune cardiovascular disease, 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.