Meet Dr. Benjamin

Samuel D. Benjamin, M.D. received his Medical Degree from the Universidad De Guadalajara Facultad De Medicina in Mexico and was awarded another M.D. from the State University of New York. He trained in a Fifth Pathway program at New York University Medical Center and then did his residency in Pediatrics and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center Hospital, the University Hospital and Academic Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and served as a Chief Resident during his last year.

Later, Benjamin served as a Medical Director of a model primary care program for urban inner cities that was funded jointly by the federal government and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He later became the Medical Director for the Western Hemisphere Region of the International Planned Parenthood Federation where he focused on maternal/child health.

In 1982 Dr. Benjamin moved to Phoenix and helped establish a pediatric and family practice medical group. He served as Medical Director of the then nation's largest PPO and joined the advisory board of Humana's local HMO. He trained in Medical Acupuncture at the UCLA Medical School of Medicine and then formed the Arizona Center for Health and Medicine for Catholic Healthcare West which was the nation's first mainstream, hospital system affiliated large scale integrative medical facility. The center and his activities were featured in Life magazine.

He returned to New York for several years as a professor and Director of the Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine.Leaving academics, he served as Corporate Medical Director of Integrative Health Strategies for Humana Inc. and as radio talk show host of the Dr. Sam Show for six years.

Dr. Benjamin is a licensed allopathic (Western) physician, a licensed homeopathic physician or MD (H) and a certified acupuncturist. He hosts 'Primary Care' on News/Talk KTAR 92.3 FM Saturdays at 2 PM MST.