Kim Benstead

Ex-Officio Board Member, European Cancer Organisation (ECO)

Chair, Accreditation Council of Oncology in Europe (ACOE), and Co-Chair, INTERACT Europe project

Dr Benstead is an honorary consultant clinical oncologist at Gloucestershire NHS Foundation Trust. As chair of the Curriculum Committee for The European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO), she led the development of the 4th edition of the ESTRO Radiation Oncology/Radiotherapy Core Curriculum which was endorsed by 29 National Societies and adopted as the European Training Requirement by the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). This was followed by the development of a Clinical Oncology Module for the core curriculum describing competencies required for the delivery of systemic anti-cancer treatments. She was a director of the International Foundations in Leadership Course for oncologists, radiation therapists and physicists with faculty from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. She was secretary to the Radiation Oncology Section of UEMS. She co-chaired the INTERACT-Europe group leading the development of an inter-specialty cancer training programme curriculum in response to Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. She chairs the Accreditation Council for Oncology in Europe (ACOE).

Updated: January 2025