Constance Benson, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine and Senior Attending Physician in the Department of Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in San Diego, CA. She is the Principal Investigator and Chair of the Executive Committee of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) of the National Institutes of Health and Principal Investigator of the University of California, San Diego AIDS Clinical Trials Unit. She also serves as the Vice Chair of the ACTG Scientific Agenda Steering Committee of the ACTG, and is a past chair of the NIH Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council.
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 is a reviewer for 11 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 Committees of the National Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections and participates in reviewing work submitted to the International AIDS Society-sponsored World AIDS Conference.