Regina Benjamin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Regina Benjamin
Occupation	Doctor
Date Of Birth	Oct 26, 1956(1956-10-26)
Age	68
Birthplace	Mobile
Country	United States
Birth City	Alabama
Horoscope	Libra

Regina Benjamin Biography

Regina Benjamin is one of the most popular and richest Doctor who was born on October 26, 1956 in Mobile, Alabama, United States. Doctor who was elected the eighteenth surgeon general of the United States in 2009. She was previously a member of the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service.

Under the presidency of She served as Surgeon General under the presidential administration of Barack Obama., she was Surgeon General.

Regina Marcia Benjamin (born October 26, 1956) is an American physician and a former vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who served as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. Benjamin previously directed a nonprofit primary care medical clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, and served on the board of trustees for the Morehouse School of Medicine.

In 1998, she was the United States recipient of the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights.

She was elected Surgeon General after stating her support for widespread healthcare reform. She cited her brother’s HIV death, her mother’s lung cancer death, and her father’s death as examples of how the healthcare system failed to treat common diseases.

Regina Benjamin Net Worth

Regina Benjamin is one of the richest Doctor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Regina Benjamin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a student at New Orleans’ Xavier University, Morehouse School of Medicine and University of Alabama at Birmingham.

After opening an Alabama medical practice, she went back to Tulane University to get her MBA. She is a skilled businesswoman who was able to transform her medical practice into Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic. This clinic serves the underprivileged of eastern Alabama.

Benjamin was born in Mobile, Alabama on October 26, 1956. She graduated from Fairhope High School in Fairhope, Alabama, and then attended college at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, where she was initiated into the Gamma Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She is also a member of the second graduating class of Morehouse School of Medicine. She received her M.D. degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed her residency in family practice at the Medical Center of Central Georgia. About her experience as the first member of her family to attend medical school, she has stated “I had never seen a black doctor before I went to college.” After entering solo medical practice in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, Benjamin worked for several years in emergency rooms and nursing homes to financially support its mission. After receiving an MBA from the Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, she converted her office to a rural health clinic.

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In 2008, Benjamin was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report. In September 2008, she was one of that year’s class of 25 in the MacArthur Fellows Program, nicknamed the “Genius Awards,” receiving a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation that would have been worth $500,000 over the course of five years. However, as a federal employee, she had to stop accepting the MacArthur Fellows stipend when she accepted the position as Surgeon General.

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Regina Ranked on the list of most popular Doctor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Regina Benjamin celebrates birthday on October 26 of every year.

On July 13, 2009, President Barack Obama announced the choice of Benjamin for the position of Surgeon General of the United States and as a Medical Director in the regular corps of the Public Health Service. On October 7, 2009, Benjamin was unanimously approved by the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Benjamin was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on October 29, 2009.

Where is Dr Regina Benjamin now?

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.

Why is Regina Benjamin important?

She was the sole American recipient of the 1998 Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights. In 2002 Dr. Benjamin became the first African American female president of a state medical society when she was elected President of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama (2002-2003).

Where is Regina Marcia Benjamin from?

Mobile, AL

How old is Regina Benjamin?

65 years (October 26, 1956)

How did Dr Benjamin earn her MD degree?

Benjamin received a B.S. (1979) from Xavier University of Louisiana. After first attending (1980–82) the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, Benjamin obtained an M.D. (1984) from the University of Alabama and completed a residency in family practice at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in 1987.