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13 Non-Honorary Members Of Delta Sigma Theta Who Changed The World
DR. REGINA BENJAMIN – A physician and a former Vice Admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, she served as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. She has previously served on Morehouse School of Medicine’s Board of Trustee’s. Benjamin attended Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans and later graduated from the Morehouse School of Medicine. She obtained an M.D. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Benjamin established her own medical practice in Alabama after her residency while also working in emergency rooms and nursing homes. She later obtained an MBA from the Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, upon which she converted her practice into the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, a small shrimping village along the Gulf Coast, which she rebuilt twice after Hurricane Katrina and a fire destroyed it.
