Dr. Mitchell C. Benson

Dr. Mitchell C. Benson is Professor of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and former George F. Cahill Chair of Urology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. His clinic begins with multiparametric MRI, prostate-specific antigen kinetics and, when appropriate, PSMA-PET imaging. Multidisciplinary meetings align those data with patient priorities before any operative or focal-therapy decision is made.

 

A translational surgeon–scientist, Dr. Benson described prostate-specific-antigen density in 1992, work that improved biopsy selection and still anchors modern screening guidelines. Subsequent studies evaluated MRI–ultrasound fusion biopsy, partial-gland cryo-ablation and salvage cryotherapy after radiation, establishing evidence for organ-sparing options alongside standard prostatectomy. Federal and industry support has underwritten more than two hundred peer-reviewed papers and multiple device patents. 

 

Education and service frame his career. He has chaired Columbia’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, mentored scores of fellows now leading urology programs worldwide and sits on NIH study sections that rank early-phase imaging and focal-therapy proposals. Community outreach in Harlem and Queens provides bilingual screening days that pair MRI with risk counselling, reflecting his view that precision care must travel with equitable access.