When Hurricane Katrina flooded much of the Gulf Coast in 2005, Dr. Regina Benjamin’s rural health clinic in a south Alabama shrimping village was just one of the casualties, but despite all the chaos, ...

Catholic leaders are applauding President Barack Obama’s nomination of black Catholic family practitioner Dr. Regina Benjamin to serve as the nation’s new surgeon general. And Benjamin, who is a ...

After weeks of delay rooted in a “partisan tiff”, Dr. Regina Benjamin has been confirmed to the post of Surgeon General. From the Alabama Press-Register: Suggested Reading Did You Know Black Folks ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina M. Benjamin will be the ...

U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, MD, will resign next month, according to a CNN report. “My goal was to create a grassroots movement, to change our health care system from one focused on sickness ...

TheGrio's 100 - As U.S. Surgeon General, Benjamin has said she will work to make sure "no one falls through… (AP Photo/The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Bill Starling) Ever since ...

President Obama nominated Dr. Regina Benjamin to the U.S. surgeon general post. Laura Meckler discusses Dr. Benjamin's background as a public health advocate, including her MacArthur genius grant.