Benjamin C. Sun, MD, MPP

Emergency Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Emergency Medicine - Clifton Center for Medical Breakthroughs
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Call 215-662-4000
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
  • Perelman School of Medicine Professor of Emergency Medicine

My education and training

  • Medical School: Harvard University
  • Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Fellowship: University of California, Los Angeles

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Sun is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Wehle HH, Gosman A, Dest A, Gina Beer G, Kim J, Kinney E, Schnittke N, Neth MR, Sun BC, Kea B Emergency Department Clinician Preferences in the Management of New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation , Academic Emergency Medicine: 2026

Kawatkar AA, Thokala P, Goodacre S, Baecker AS, Sharp AL, Redberg RF, Lee MS, Ferencik M, Sun BC Cost-effectiveness of early noninvasive cardiac testing for suspected acute coronary syndrome , Academic Emergency Medicine: 2025

Kawatkar AA, Baecker AS, Sharp AL, Redberg RF, Lee MS, Ferencik M, Goodacre S, Thokala P, Wu YL, Zheng C, Shen E, Sun BC Association of Early Noninvasive Cardiac Stress Testing With Acute Myocardial Infarction and Mortality , Ann Emerg Med: 2025

Kea B, Warton EM, Kutz CE, Kinney E, Ballard DW, Reed ME, Lip GYH, Raitt M, Sun BC, Vinson DR; KP CREST Network Stroke prophylaxis after US emergency department diagnosis and discharge of patients with atrial fibrillation and flutter from 21 hospitals , Int J Emerg Med, 18(1): 2025

Bhadra S, Nguyen T, Elman M, Kea B, Strusnska-Thayer M, Kinney E, Anwar M, Obando KA, Prychyna D, Schnittke N, Neth M, Sun B Electronic Clinical Decision Support Tool Increases Oral Anticoagulant Prescription in the Emergency Department: Initial Findings From a Multi-Phase, Multi-Center Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial , American Heart Association Scientific Sessions: 2024

Moore AB, Gershon C, Fiske C, Sun, BC, Nazer B, Kea B Changes in Clinical Management Following 14-Day Ambulatory ECG Monitoring Following Emergency Department Evaluation for Unexplained Syncope , Annals of Emergency Medicine: 2024

Kawatkar A, Sun BC Cost-Effectiveness of Early Non-Invasive Cardiac Testing for Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome , 2024 American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum: 2024

Yore M, Sharp A, Wu Y, Kawatkar A, Lee M, Ferencik M, Redberg R, Shen E, Zheng C, Sun BC Emergency Department Cardiac Risk Stratification With High-Sensitivity vs Conventional Troponin HEART Pathway , JAMA Network Open, 6(12): 2023

Hopkins BJ, Nguyen T, Kinney E, Kim J, McCracken C, Bissell K, Gosman A, DeCarlo A, Anwar M, Neth MR, Schnittke N, Sun BC, Kea B Optimizing Stroke Prophylaxis in the Emergency Department With an Electronic Clinical Decision Support Tool: A Preliminary Analysis of a Multi-Stage Multi-Center Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Tria , 2023 American Heart Association Scientific Session: 2023

Zheng C, Sun BC, Wu YL, Ferencik M, Lee MS, Redberg RF, Kawatkar AA, Musigdilok VV, Sharp AL Automated interpretation of stress echocardiography reports using natural language processing , European Heart Journal - Digital Health, 3(4): 2022