Change Watch: Dr. Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General of the United States
by David Prentice
September 9, 2009
POSITION: SURGEON GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
NOMINEE: Regina Benjamin
BIRTHDATE: October 26, 1956 in Mobile, Alabama
EDUCATION:
B.S. Xavier University of Louisiana
M.D. 1984, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Atlanta’s Morehouse School of Medicine
M.B.A. Tulane University, Freeman School of Business
FAMILY: never married; no children
EXPERIENCE:
Completed residency in family practice at the Medical Center of Central Georgia
1987 Founded the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama;
rebuilt after Hurricane George, Hurricane Katrina, and extensive fire damage
1995 Elected to the American Medical Association’s board of trustees
1996-2002 Board Member, Physicians for Human Rights, Physicians for Human Rights Advisory Council
1998 Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights
2000 National Caring Award (which was inspired by Mother Teresa)
2006 Papal honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice from Pope Benedict XVI
Served as President of the American Medical Association’s Education and Research Foundation
Named by Time Magazine as one of the “Nation’s 50 Future Leaders Age 40 and Under.
President of the Medical Association of Alabama
Appointed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act Committee and to the Council of Graduate Medical Education, and also a member of the “Step 3 Committee Continue reading »
