Professor
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dr. Robert Benjamin is a Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He has worked in the area of Bone & Soft Tissue Sarcoma for more than 40 years and was the department’s former chairman for more than 20 years. Dr. Benjamin was awarded the P.H. and Fay E. Robinson Distinguished Professorship in Cancer Research as well as the Gerald P. Bodey Professorship. In 2012 Dr. Benjamin received Herman Suit Award for his exceptional contribution to CTOS. In 2013 was the recipient of the John Mendelsohn Lifetime Achievement Award in the Division of Cancer Medicine at MD Anderson.
Dr. Benjamin was a founding member of the Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS), an international, multidisciplinary society devoted to the study of sarcomas, and he is past CTOS president. He also was a founding member and served on the Advisory Board of the Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration (SARC), a clinical trials group of CTOS members. He served for more than 20 years as a member of both the NCCN Guideline Panels for both Soft Tissue and Bone sarcomas. He served on the NCI Program Review Group (PRG) for Sarcomas and was co-chairman of the PRG committee on Better Clinical Trials.