Regina Benjamin
Chair
Xavier University
WORKING GROUP SESSION LEADER, The True Cost of Disaster Preparedness – Unprepared and Prepared
Regina Marcia Benjamin is an American physician and a former vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who served as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. Benjamin previously directed a nonprofit primary care medical clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, and served on the Board of Trustees for the Morehouse School of Medicine.