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Remembering Helene: “We’re being public servants”

Remembering Helene: “We’re being public servants”

Update: 2025-09-25
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On this episode of the Remembering Hurricane Helene series, we interview Dr. Benjamin Gilmer, Rural Fellowship Director and Director of Rural Health Initiatives for the Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville. Dr. Gilmer put his extensive global experience in serving under resourced patient populations to good use and was busy practicing out of a donated bus in a church parking lot in Swannanoa in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

Host: Jean Fisher Brinkley, Communications Director, North Carolina Medical Board
Guest: Benjamin Gilmer, MD, Rural Fellowship Director, MAHEC Family Medicine
Faculty Physician and Director of Rural Health Initiatives
Producer: Sylvia French-Hodges, Communications Specialist, North Carolina Medical Board

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Remembering Helene: “We’re being public servants”

Remembering Helene: “We’re being public servants”

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