President Barack Obama choice for surgeon general
It’s being reported that President Obama has chosen Alabama family physician Dr. Regina Benjamin to be the next Surgeon General.
The AP reports: “Benjamin was the first black woman to head a state medical society, received the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights and just last fall received a MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant.’ But she made headlines in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with her determination to rebuild her rural health clinic Bayou La Batre, Ala., which serves 4,400 patients who would be hard-pressed to find care elsewhere.”
Obama is set to make the announcement later today.
Who is Regina Benjamin ?
Regina Benjamin (born in 1956 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American physician, who runs a nonprofit medical clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, in the United States.
Dr. Benjamin notably became the first African-American woman on the American Medical Association’s board of trustees when she was elected to the post in 1995.
On July 13, 2009 President Barack Obama announced the choice of Benjamin for the position of Surgeon General of the United States.[2][3] If confirmed, Benjamin will become the third African American and only the second non-acting woman to hold the position. (wikipedia)
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