President Obama has chosen Dr. Regina Benjamin as his choice for the next
surgeon general. Dr. Benjamin, a black woman, is the founder and CEO of Bayou
La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. In 1995 , Dr.
Benjamin became the first black woman and the youngest doctor elected to serve
on the board of the American Medical Association. In 1998, she received the
Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights. In 2008, she received a
MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" supporting her efforts to treat patients in
the Gulf Coast region regardless of their ability to pay.
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