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These Distinguished Physicians Explain the Importance of Adult Immunization, Particularly in Communities of Color, and Urge African Americans and Latinos to Think Prevention for Potentially Deadly Diseases

additional biographical information on Dr. Regina Benjamin:
Dr. Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., served as the 18th United States Surgeon General under President Barack Obama. During this time, she also served as the first chair of the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council (National Prevention Council), comprising 17 cabinet-level Federal agencies that developed the road map for the Nation’s health called The National Prevention Strategy. Before becoming “America’s Doctor,” she served her patients at the rural health clinic she founded in tiny Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Dr. Benjamin has a B.S. in chemistry from Xavier University of Louisiana, an M.D. degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and an M.B.A. from Tulane University. Having attended Morehouse School of Medicine and completed her family medicine residency in Macon, Georgia, Dr. Benjamin is the recipient of 22 honorary degrees.

additional biographical information on Dr. Jorge Rodriguez:
A charismatic, bilingual, no-nonsense physician, nationally-renowned board certified internist Dr. Jorge Rodriguez, has a gift for simplifying even the most complicated topics. Having attended the University of Miami School of Medicine, Dr. Rodriguez chose to pursue Internal Medicine having completed his internship and residencies at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami and at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. He finished his medical education with a fellowship in gastroenteritis at Baylor School of Medicine in Dallas and currently divides his time between two practices in Southern California.

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