Benjamin S. Abella is an American physician, emergency medicine practitioner, internist, academic and researcher.

[3] Abella has published over 200 scholarly papers regarding cardiac arrest, myocardial perfusion, therapeutic hypothermia, CPR delivery and resuscitation.

[2] Abella joined University of Pennsylvania's Department of Emergency Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the early 2000s.

[8] Abella currently serves as an emergency care consultant to the National Basketball Association and was appointed by Governor Josh Shapiro to the Pennsylvania Board of Medicine in 2023.

[1] Abella has conducted research on sudden cardiac arrest, myocardial perfusion and targeted temperature management.

He developed a training course for post-arrest care and targeted temperature management, known as the Penn TTM Academy.

He was one of the first to establish that intra-arrest TTM could dramatically improve arrest outcomes, which has subsequently sparked clinical trials to study the same concept.