Benjamin Kinnear

Ben is a professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in the Division of Hospital Medicine at University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He is Program Director for the Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency program and the IMSTAR Medical Education fellowship. Ben obtained his Master of Medical Education from University of Cincinnati in 2018 and completed a one-year research fellowship with the Education Research Scholars Program at Cincinnati Children’s in 2020. He was subsequently selected for the Macy Faculty Scholars Program, during which he piloted competency-based time-variable training in the UC internal medicine residency program. He recently completed his PhD at Maastricht University’s School of Health Professions Education where he studied validity argumentation and argumentation theory. Ben spends most of his free time with his wife and two daughters hiking, playing board games, and travelling whenever possible. He is a St Loui