Penn Medicine Provider
Emergency Medicine
Benjamin C. Sun, MD, MPP
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Emergency Medicine - Clifton Center for Medical Breakthroughs
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About me

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

Education and training

  • Medical School: Harvard University
  • Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Fellowship: University of California, Los Angeles

Insurance accepted

My 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

My research

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


du Fay de Lavallaz J, Zimmermann T, Badertscher P, Sun BC, Mueller C Performance of the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology/Heart Rhythm Society versus European Society of Cardiology Guideline Criteria for Hospital Admission of Patients with Syncope , Heart Rhythm, 19(10): 2022,1712-1722