Regina Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., was elected to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Board of Trustees in January 2008.

Benjamin, a nationally acclaimed medical leader committed to health care equity and social justice, is founder and chief executive officer of Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic of Alabama, which provides general medical and hospital care to a largely uninsured population and has become a business model for rural physicians throughout the United States. She is the former associate dean for Rural Health at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine.

Benjamin is a member of the Institute of Medicine of The National Academies and serves on the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, and as a member of the boards of the Morehouse School of Medicine, Birmingham Southern University, the Federation of State Medical Boards and the Catholic Health Association, and as a member of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. She is a past member of national advisory committees of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities. She also has served on two Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national advisory committees, for Prescription for Health and the Southern Rural Access Program.

Benjamin earned an M.D. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, an M.B.A. from Tulane University and a B.S. from Xavier University.
 

See also:

• Board of Trustees