President Obama will name a new surgeon general at 11:40 a.m. in the Rose Garden. According to the Associated Press, his pick is Regina Benjamin, a family physician from Alabama.
Benjamin made headlines after Hurricane Katrina for her efforts to rebuild her Bayou La Batre, Ala., health clinic, which serves 4,400 people who would have a hard time finding health care elsewhere, the AP says.
Last fall, she received a MacArthur Foundation "genuis grant," and she is a recipient of the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights.
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