William Bennett, M.D., PH.D.

My desire to become a physician and cardiologist stems primary from my environment. I grew up in a single parent home, in an impoverished inner city housing project in Birmingham, Alabama. In this world, healthcare was viewed as an unaffordable luxury, rather than a basic necessity of life. There were no annual checkups, no preventive medicine and no early diagnoses. Instead, healthcare was a community filled with fears and misconceptions about medicine…the harsh reality of poverty. As a resul