C. Benson: AIDS Clinical Trails Group
Constance Benson, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine, Senior Attending Physician, and the Infectious Disease Fellowship Training Program Director in the Department of Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She is also the Principal Investigator and Chair of the Executive Committee and Vice Chair of the
Dr. Benson is an internationally-recognized researcher and clinician in the field of HIV and AIDS. Her areas of research focus include Mycobacterium avium complex disease, other HIV-related opportunistic infections, metabolic complications of HIV therapies, antiretroviral treatment and new antiretroviral drug development, treatment of acute HIV-1 infection, and the treatment of HIV infection and its complications in resource-limited international settings. Her contributions to the field of HIV/AIDS are numerous. To date, she has published more than 220 original manuscripts, book chapters and abstracts reporting and summarizing findings from HIV-related research. She has served on numerous NIH ad hoc study sections and scientific review groups, has served as a reviewer for 11 major medical journals, and lectures frequently both nationally and internationally on topics within her areas of research and clinical expertise.
Dr. Benson is a member of the International AIDS Society, the Infectious Disease Society of America, the HIV Medicine Association of the IDSA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American College of Physicians. She participates on numerous academic and extramural committees and is a member of the Board of Directors of the International AIDS Society-USA and the Foundation for Human Retrovirology. She also serves on the Scientific Program Committee of the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), and participates in reviewing papers submitted to the International AIDS Society-sponsored World AIDS Conferences.
Dr. Benson received her B.S. and M.D. degrees from The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. She completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine and her fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. She served in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps at the Great Lakes Naval Regional Medical Center prior to continuing her career in academic infectious diseases. She was a faculty member of Rush Medical College and the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center before assuming her current position as Professor of Medicine in the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She maintains clinical duties as a specialist in infectious diseases and as an active provider of HIV/AIDS care at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center in San Diego.