Dr. Benson is a Professor of Medicine in Hematology/Oncology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Associate Director for Cooperative Groups at Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. At ECOG-ACRIN, he is a member of the Principal Investigator Committee, and Co-Chair of the NCORP Advisory Committee and the Cancer Care Delivery Research Committee. He also chairs both the Therapeutic and PrECOG Data Safety Monitoring Committees. His primary research focus is gastrointestinal cancers.