Undergrad: Political and Social Thought at The University of Virginia
Residency: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Academic Interests: Global health, human rights, and the medical care of asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants
Fun Fact: Reading Books, Riding Bikes, and Seeing the World.
Ben McVane, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Arnhold Institute of Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He works clinically at Elmhurst Hospital and the Cheyenne River Health Center in Eagle Butte, South Dakota. He also serves as the Medical Director at the Libertas Center for Human Rights. He completed his medical degree at Columbia University, a Master of Public Health degree at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and his emergency medicine residency training at Mount Sinai. He has completed additional training on the documentation of human rights abuses from Physicians for Human Rights and The Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights. In addition to domestic work with the Libertas Center, he has worked internationally with refugee populations in Greece, Bangladesh, and Mexico.