标题: 雷吉娜-本杰明 农村家庭医生 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-4-11 16:31 标题: 雷吉娜-本杰明 农村家庭医生 Regina Benjamin
Rural Family Physician | Class of 2008
Delivering high-quality medical care to diverse, underserved communities in Alabama and ensuring that the most vulnerable among us are not forgotten.
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Title
Rural Family Physician
Affiliation
Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic
Location
Bayou La Batre, Alabama
Age
51 at time of award
Area of Focus
Health Care Delivery
Published January 27, 2008
ABOUT REGINA'S WORK
Regina Benjamin is a rural family physician forging an inspiring model of compassionate and effective medical care in one of the most underserved regions of the United States. In 1990, she founded the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic to serve the Gulf Coast fishing community of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, a village of approximately 2,500 residents devastated twice in the past decade by Hurricanes Georges, in 1998, and Katrina, in 2005. Despite scarce resources, Benjamin has painstakingly rebuilt her clinic after each disaster and set up networks to maintain contact with patients scattered across multiple evacuation sites. She has established a family practice that allows her to treat all incoming patients, many of whom are uninsured, and frequently travels by pickup truck to care for the most isolated and immobile in her region. Benjamin is skilled, as well, in translating research on preventive health measures into accessible, community-based interventions to decrease the disease burdens of her diverse patient base, which includes immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, who comprise a third of Bayou La Batre’s population. A committed local physician, she also plays key roles statewide and nationally, helping others establish clinics in remote areas of the country and serving in leadership positions in such health-related organizations as the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians. With a deep, firsthand knowledge of the pressing needs and health disparities afflicting rural, high-poverty communities, Benjamin is ensuring that the most vulnerable among us have access to high-quality care.
BIOGRAPHY
Regina Benjamin received a B.S. (1979) from Xavier University of Louisiana, attended Morehouse School of Medicine from 1980 to 1982, and received an M.D. (1984) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham; she also holds an M.B.A. (1991) from Tulane University. She completed her residency in family practice at the Medical Center of Central Georgia (1987). The CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic since its founding in 1990, Benjamin has also served as the associate dean for rural health at the University of South Alabama’s College of Medicine and as president of the State of Alabama Medical Association (2002-2003).
个人简历
Regina Benjamin在路易斯安那州泽维尔大学获得学士学位（1979年），1980至1982年在莫尔豪斯医学院学习，并在阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校获得医学博士学位（1984年）；她还拥有杜兰大学的工商管理硕士学位（1991年）。她在佐治亚州中部医疗中心完成了她的家庭实践实习（1987）。自1990年Bayou La Batre农村卫生诊所成立以来，本杰明一直担任该诊所的首席执行官，同时还担任南阿拉巴马大学医学院农村卫生副院长和阿拉巴马州医学协会主席（2002-2003）。