M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation; Professor, Department of Computational and Quantitative Medicine; Professor and Director of Research, Department of Supportive Care Medicine; Director of Evidence-based Medicine and Comparative Effectiveness Research
Medicine, University of Sarajevo
Internal Medicine – University of Louisville
Benjamin Djulbegovic, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor in the Departments of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Computational & Quantitative Medicine at City of Hope®. He also serves as professor and director of research in the Department of Supportive Care Medicine and medical director of evidence-based analytics, a core program he helped establish.
Dr. Djulbegovic’s research focuses on improving how medical evidence is generated and applied in clinical practice. His work integrates evidence-based medicine, predictive analytics, health outcomes research and decision sciences to better understand how uncertainty, rationality and human judgment influence medical decisions.
An internationally recognized leader in the science of evidence-based medicine, Dr. Djulbegovic has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers, 190 abstracts and multiple book chapters. His two books — Reasoning and Decision-making in Hematology and Decision Making in Oncology. Evidence-based Management — have been praised as groundbreaking contributions to medical decision-making.
His research has appeared in leading journals such as Nature, Lancet, JAMA and New England Journal of Medicine, and he has been continuously funded for over two decades by both federal and private institutions. Dr. Djulbegovic has been named among Newsweek’s “Top Cancer Doctors” and since 2011 ranks in the top 1% of U.S. doctors by U.S. News & World Report in the field of hematology.