Dr. Beninger is an adjunct research professor at Tufts CSDD and an Associate Professor of Public Health & Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He has more than three decades of career experience as a regulator, industry executive, and as a member of the academic community. Dr Beninger began his career in drug development in 1987 at the US Food and Drug Administration, first as a reviewer and manager for drugs against HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections and then as a division director for medical devices. He joined Merck & Company in 1995 in regulatory affairs, medical affairs and drug safety in the areas of antiinfective drug and biological products, vaccines, anti-diabetic drug products and oncology drug products, before joining Genzyme as vice-president of pharmacovigilance in 2006. Dr. Beninger trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He received his MD from the University of California, Davis, his BA from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, his MBA from St Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and his graduate certificate in epidemiology from Tufts. He consults regularly and has published and presented his research and insights extensively. Dr. Beninger has been affiliated with Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development since 2014 and Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute since 2021.