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1. reginabenjamin.net18th U.S. SURGEON GENERAL | Regina Benjamin Official Website

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   May 19, 2020 · What I Do. My goal was to create a grassroots movement, to change our health care system from one focused on sickness and disease to a system focused on wellness and prevention. Learn More.

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     Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA is the 18th Surgeon General of...

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     The Bayou Clinic’s mission is to provide primary health care...

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     University of Michigan Medical School May 15, 2020 The...

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     Dr. Regina Benjamin joins Zillow as health advisor to...

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     Regina Benjamin served as U.S. Surgeon General under...

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Regina_BenjaminRegina Benjamin - Wikipedia

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   Benjamin is founder and CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, a small shrimping village along the Gulf Coast. Benjamin was the subject of a Reader's Digest article that chronicled her efforts to rebuild the clinic after Hurricane Katrina .

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   • Dr. Regina Benjamin is a family physician who served as the 18th US Surgeon General during the Obama Administration, and was the youngest person and first African American admitted to the American Medical Association’s Board of Trustees.

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   • Dr. Regina Marcia Benjamin, President Barack Obama ’s nominee for Surgeon General of the United States, is an accomplished physician whose professional and personal roots are planted deeply in rural America. Dr. Benjamin was nominated for the post by the President on July 13, 2009 and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 29, 2009.

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   • Dr. Benjamin is a devout Roman Catholic. Administration officials did not answer questions about her views on abortion. Ms. Bosarge said that Dr. Bengamin routinely prescribed birth control pills, but that the clinic did not have the facilities to perform abortions.

   A Doctor From the Bayou - The New York Times

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4. www.womenshistory.org › regina-benjaminRegina Benjamin | National Women's History Museum

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   Benjamin was the only doctor in Bayou La Batre (the town) and the clinic was the only option for the majority of the area’s residents to access basic primary medical care. By this point, Benjamin had found her calling: working as a primary care doctor while pushing to improve the U.S. healthcare system so that the focus became patients ...

5. www.britannica.com › biography › Regina-BenjaminRegina Benjamin | Biography & Facts | Britannica

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   May 3, 2024 · Benjamin was the only doctor in Bayou La Batre, and she persevered in running the community’s health clinic despite having had to rebuild it three times—in 1998 after it was flooded by Hurricane Georges, in 2005 after it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and again in 2006 after it was extensively damaged by fire. She mortgaged her house ...

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7. www.nytimes.com › 2009/07/14 › healthA Doctor From the Bayou - The New York Times

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   Jul 14, 2009 · President Obama on Monday announced his choice for surgeon general, Dr. Regina M. Benjamin, center. With them at the White House was the health secretary, Kathleen Sebelius. Credit...

8. www.nlm.nih.gov › biography_regina_benjaminBiography - Dr. Regina Marcia Benjamin - National Library of ...

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   As founder and CEO of the rural BayouClinic in Bayou La Batre, Dr. Regina Benjamin is making a difference to the underserved poor in a small fishing village on the Gulf Coast of Alabama. It is a town of about 2500 people, about 80 percent of her patients live below the poverty level.