Benjamin Raby

Benjamin Raby, MD, MPH serves as Chief of the Division of Pulmonary Medicine and holds the Leila and Irving Perlmutter Endowed Chair in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He directs the BWH Pulmonary Genetics Center providing diagnostic services and counseling for genetic lung disorders.

His research program focuses on pulmonary genetics and precision medicine applications. Current initiatives include the Pulmonary Precision Medicine Initiative studying genetic testing in lung transplant candidates and idiopathic bronchiectasis patients. He also leads investigations into screening protocols for relatives of pulmonary fibrosis patients. As Genetics Section Editor for UpToDate, he oversees genomics content development across medical specialties.

Recent publications explore vascular remodeling in pulmonary hypertension, pediatric pulmonary function testing, genetic markers of interstitial lung disease, and pericyte biology. His translational research bridges genomic discovery with clinical applications in respiratory medicine.