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Dr. Benson received her M.D. degree from Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1978, completed her residency in Internal Medicine, and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Rush University Medical College in Chicago in 1986. After serving several years as an active duty U.S. Navy internist, she was recruited to the faculty of Rush University in the Division of Infectious Diseases in 1986. In 1997, she joined the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, and in 2005 she became part of the Division of Infectious Diseases at UCSD. Dr. Benson is an internationally recognized researcher and clinician working in the field of HIV/AIDS since 1984. Currently, she serves as the Principal Investigator at the UCSD AIDS Clinical Trials Unit and as the Director of the UCSD Antiviral Research Center, where she manages an extensive portfolio of clinical translational research projects, grants, and contracts. She oversees multiple national and international multicenter clinical trials in fields including HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, influenza, tuberculosis, and HIV-related opportunistic infections, as well as malignancies and the complications of infectious diseases that have a global health impact.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).