Benjamin Diven
Doctor · Author
Benjamin Diven is a doctor in New Mexico whose career has included family medicine, emergency medicine and emergency medical services. He has also served as a medical director and program leader in EMS education and wrote Closing the Chasm: Letters from a Bipolar Physician to His Son, a memoir about living and working with bipolar disorder. [2][5][1][4]
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Career and work
Diven has worked in family medicine and emergency medicine in New Mexico. He also became extensively involved in emergency medical services, serving as a medical director and participating in statewide EMS medical-direction work. [5][6][2]
He later became Program Operations Director for the Emergency Medical/Paramedic Program at Doña Ana Community College, part of New Mexico State University. Diven also published Closing the Chasm: Letters from a Bipolar Physician to His Son in 2009. [1][4]
What has been publicly discussed
“It’s an engaging, enlightening, and readable story of a person with bipolar disorder taken from high school to adulthood.”
— Benjamin Diven [3]
