Dr. Regina Benjamin is a family physician from Alabama. On July 13, 2009, President Barack Obama named Dr. Benjamin as surgeon general.http://news.bnonews.com/rvn6
Dr. Benjamin is a graduate of Xavier University, the University of Alabama School of Medicine and Morehouse School of Medicine. She was the first African-American woman to be elected to the American Medical Association's Board of Trustees.http://www.kff.org/about/benjamin.cfm
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Regina Marcia Benjamin
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CEO and founder of Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Alabama
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Earned medical degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1984
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Chosen by the American Medical Associations "Unsung Hero Campaign" in 1991
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Named as a "Person of the Week" on ABC World news Tonight with Peter Jennings in 1995
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Won the Kaiser Family Foundation's Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights in 1997
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Helped rebuild her clinic when it was destroyed by Hurricane Georges in 1998
