Costantino Benedetti, MD

Professor, Clinical Anesthesiology
College of Medicine and Public Health
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio

Costantino Benedetti, MD received his medical degree from the University of Rome, Italy, and did his anesthesiology residency at the University of Colorado, Denver and the University of Washington, Seattle where he was also a National Institute of Health Fellow in Pain Research and Therapy from 1976 to 1978. He later assumed a faculty and clinical position with the University of Washington-Seattle and became Medical Director of the Pain and Toxicity Service at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. In 1990, he was appointed the Director of Anesthesia and Analgesia at the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute at The Ohio State University where he is a Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology.

Dr. Benedetti specializes in anesthesiology, cancer pain, and symptom control. He is an active member of a number of professional associations, including the American Pain Society and the American Academy of Pain Medicine. In 1972, he participated at a meeting from which the International Association for the Study of Pain and the journal Pain were established. He has been an active founding member of that organization since that time. His work in pain research and therapy has been published in many books, professional and scholarly journals. Dr. Benedetti has organized 6 national and international meetings on acute, chronic and cancer pain and edited 5 books in the field of pain. Since 1997 he has been on three panels of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network .

Active in the community, Dr. Benedetti serves on the boards of several charitable organizations, including the Franklin County Unit of the American Cancer Society and is currently President-Elect of the Ohio Division. In 1994 he founded the John and Emma Bonica Pain and Symptom Relief Program, a community service named in memory of the late John and Emma Bonica that assists patients with cancer pain and symptom control who are economically disadvantaged. Dr. Benedetti was the recipient of the Ohio Quality of Care Award 2000 for Outstanding Contributions to the Columbus Community, as well as an Official Recognition by Bob Taft, Governor of the State of Ohio for Integrity, Professionalism and Community Leadership.