Benjamin Lerman, MS, MD
Clinical Fellow
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Outstanding Achievement in Childhood Advocacy, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2022
• David A. Zlotnick Memorial Award in Global Child Health, 2018
• Scholarship in Global Health, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, 2018
• Young Achiever Award, American College of Physicians, 2017

Education & Training

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• Residency Pediatrics Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania 06/2022
• MD Stanford School of Medicine 06/2019
• MS Epidemiology & Clinical Research Stanford School of Medicine 06/2019
• BS, with Honors Biology Stanford University 06/2014

Grants and Projects

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• Association of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Symptoms With Mortality After Elective Noncardiac Surgery In Patients With Heart Failure, NIH, 2017-2018
• An Evaluation of Socioeconomic Barriers to Surgical Care in Low and Middle Income Countries, Stanford School of Medicine, 2015-2016

Publications (11)

Top publication keywords:
Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorDeveloping CountriesStroke VolumeElective Surgical ProceduresPulmonary Alveolar ProteinosisSurgical Procedures, OperativeHealth Services AccessibilityHeart FailurePulmonary SurfactantsDecision MakingPatientsPostoperative ComplicationsAmbulatory Surgical ProceduresNeuroblastomaTreatment Refusal

• An Adolescent Boy With Hypoxia, Microscopic Hematuria, and Hypertension.
  Cureus 2024 Zhou MS, Lee CD, Lerman BJ, Strong A, LaRosa C
• Progression-Free Survival and Patterns of Response in Patients With Relapsed High-Risk Neuroblastoma Treated With Irinotecan/Temozolomide/Dinutuximab/Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor.
  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2022 Lerman BJ, Li Y, Carlowicz C, Granger M, Cash T, Sadanand A, Somers K, Ranavaya A, Weiss BD, Choe M, Foster JH, Pinto N, Morgenstern DA, Rafael MS, Streby KA, Zeno RN, Mody R, Yazdani S, Desai AV, …
• Successful whole lung lavage in a child with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis secondary to hematologic malignancy.
  Pediatric pulmonology 2021 Tsukahara K, Lindell RB, Newman H, Lerman BJ, Kersun LS, Piccione J
• Optimizable Risk Factors Contributing to Mortality in Patients With Heart Failure Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery.
  JAMA surgery 2020 Lerman BJ, Livingston EH, Wren SM
• Association of Sex With Postoperative Mortality Among Patients With Heart Failure Who Underwent Elective Noncardiac Operations.
  JAMA network open 2019 Mattingly AS, Lerman BJ, Popat R, Wren SM

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• Association Between Heart Failure and Postoperative Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Ambulatory Noncardiac Surgery.
  JAMA surgery 2019 Lerman BJ, Popat RA, Assimes TL, Heidenreich PA, Wren SM
• Association of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Symptoms With Mortality After Elective Noncardiac Surgery Among Patients With Heart Failure.
  JAMA 2019 Lerman BJ, Popat RA, Assimes TL, Heidenreich PA, Wren SM
• Long-term follow-up of pediatric head trauma patients treated at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2018 Vaca SD, Xu LW, Nalwanga J, Muhumuza C, Lerman BJ, Kiryabwire J, Ssenyonjo H, Mukasa J, Muhumuza M, Haglund M, Grant G
• Cost Effectiveness of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy in Relapsed or Refractory Pediatric B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2018 Lin JK, Lerman BJ, Barnes JI, Boursiquot BC, Tan YJ, Robinson AQL, Davis KL, Owens DK, Goldhaber-Fiebert JD
• Life After the Neurosurgical Ward in Sub-Saharan Africa: Neurosurgical Treatment and Outpatient Outcomes in Uganda.
  World neurosurgery 2018 Xu LW, Vaca SD, Nalwanga J, Muhumuza C, Vail D, Lerman BJ, Kiryabwire J, Ssenyonjo H, Mukasa J, Muhumuza M, Haglund MM, Grant G
• Beyond Infrastructure: Understanding Why Patients Decline Surgery in the Developing World: An Observational Study in Cameroon.
  Annals of surgery 2017 Lerman BJ, Alsan M, Chia NJ, Brown JA, Wren SM