Public wellness successful coastal Georgia has a caller leader. Dr. Bonzo Reddick has been named wellness manager of the eight-county Coastal Health District.
Reddick steps into the nationalist wellness enactment relation pursuing the status of Dr. Lawton Davis.
Reddick is nary alien to the assemblage wellness needs of the coastal area. For the past 5 years, helium led an outpatient signifier astatine the J.C. Lewis Primary Health Care Center successful Savannah, a federally qualified wellness halfway and designated Healthcare for the Homeless site.
He served connected the Health Equity Council for the Georgia Department of Public Health and was connected the aesculapian advisory committees for the Savannah nationalist schoolhouse strategy and for the Mayor's Office during the tallness of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reddick received his B.S. grade from Morehouse College and his aesculapian grade from Morehouse School of Medicine. After graduating from aesculapian schoolhouse successful 2002, helium near Georgia for the University of North Carolina astatine Chapel Hill, wherever helium completed a household medicine residency, 2 module improvement fellowships, and a master’s grade successful nationalist health. After graduating from residency successful 2005, helium practiced full-spectrum household medicine - including delivering babies and inpatient medicine - for 17 years.
He was named Top Family Physician successful Savannah by South Magazine successful 2016 & 2019, and helium was precocious named the Family Physician of the Year by the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians for 2021. He has published galore articles successful technological and aesculapian journals, and helium precocious finished authoring a publication connected achieving wellness equity.
Reddick volition pb the Coastal Health District from offices successful Savannah and Brunswick, overseeing each territory and region nationalist wellness programs successful Bryan, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, and McIntosh Counties.