Associate Medical Director, NIH Stroke Program At MWHC
Vascular Neurology
Washington, DC, United States
Richard T. Benson, MD,PhD is associate medical director of the Comprehensive Stroke Center at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and associate professor of clinical neurology at Georgetown University Medical Center. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Fisk University in Nashville. He attended Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, where he earned his medical degree and a PhD in neurophysiology. Dr. Benson completed his neurology residency training at the Harvard-Longwood Neurology Program in Boston. He then completed a two-year stroke fellowship with the Neurological Institute at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, while completing a master's degree in epidemiology. Dr. Benson has received numerous research honors/awards and has published many manuscripts and abstracts.
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