​This extensive training across a number of fields has seen her enjoy a career spanning three decades and four states thus far.

Benigno's early medical education led her to five years in varied roles at James Road Medical Center, Columbus, and Doctors Hospital, Nelsonville, both in Ohio. She would subsequently go on to spend the following two decades at Heartland Medical Center, based in New York.

In her role as attending emergency room physician at the Staten Island hospital, Benigno was responsible for patient care, while also supervising teams of medical students, residents, and fellows.

"I saw many thousands of patients," recalls Benigno. "I also had the pleasure of witnessing future doctors and nurses going through the same learning processes I had in my own years of training and education. 20 years primarily as an attending ER physician was taxing, but simultaneously very rewarding," she adds.

It was early on in her career at Heartland Medical Center that Benigno would complete her comprehensive fellowship training in breast oncology at nearby Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

"This would very much shape the future of my medical career," says Benigno of her time at the specialist cancer center.

Founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital, the establishment appointed William B. Coley to pioneer an early form of tumor eradication through immunotherapy.

15 years later, it was to become the General Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases, and a further 35 years on, Memorial Hospital and the Sloan Kettering Institute.

It assumed its current name — Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — in 1980, a little over a decade before Benigno would commence her training at the site. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has developed many important cancer treatments in its 134-year history, including HSP90 inhibitors and chimeric antigen receptor therapy, as well as drugs such as Zolinza and Trisenox.

Since leaving Heartland Medical Center, Benigno has spent her most recent five years located between Rochelle Park's Redi-Med, Doctors Express locations in Paramus and Lyndhurst, and ER Express Care in Fair Lawn, all in her native New Jersey.

Working primarily as an attending physician in urgent care, and as a medical director, Benigno specializes in critical care medicine, as well as surgical oncology of the breast, thanks to her time at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

As a specialist in surgical oncology of the breast, Benigno holds an in-depth knowledge of every aspect of breast surgery. This includes diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the breast, and all associated clinical aspects of breast oncology, such as pathology, mammography, ultrasound, MRI, and related biopsies.

"My career has taken me from New Jersey to Maine, and from Maine to Ohio, then right back to New York, and, ultimately, New Jersey," says Benigno.

"I've enjoyed a long and varied career thus far, and I've seen some beautiful parts of the country, but it's definitely good to be back home in New Jersey," she concludes.

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