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GA HR1761
Resolution
Status
Passed
3/18/2010
Primary Sponsor
Kathy Ashe
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AI Summary
- Georgia House Resolution commending Dr. Rogsbert F. Phillips, a board-certified general surgeon who heads Metro Surgical Associates in Lithonia and Atlanta and serves as Chief of Surgery at DeKalb Medical Center
- Dr. Phillips received the 2010 Stand Up! Speak Out Award from the Georgia Breast Cancer Coalition Fund for her dedication to patients and community outreach work
- In 1989, she founded Sisters...By Choice, Inc., a nonprofit organization providing education, awareness, screening, diagnosis, and treatment services to medically underserved communities
- A graduate of Columbia University School of Medicine, Dr. Phillips became the second woman and first African American to successfully complete Emory University's surgical program
- She has extended her breast cancer work internationally, traveling to the former Soviet Union and South Africa and providing internship programs for students from Bedfordshire, Grand Cayman, and the Netherlands
Legislative Description
Phillips, Dr. Rogsbert F.; commend
Last Action
House Read and Adopted
3/18/2010
Full Bill Text
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