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Statewide Regional Medical Director, Alabama Department of Corrections

Dr. Robbins is the Statewide Regional Medical Director for the Alabama Department of Corrections YesCare contract. He provides medical expertise, clinical guidance, and leadership for 50 providers running medical programs within the ADOC. He focuses on the care of patients, meeting or exceeding community standards within the ADOC's 28 facilities. He works with other team members including nursing, mental health, pharmacy, reentry, the Alabama Department of Public Health, the Office of Health Services within the ADOC, local providers, and health care facilities/hospitals throughout the state. His prior knowledge and experience with the ADOC have proven to be an asset. He is actively working with behavioral health and psychiatric staff for on-going MOUD programming within the ADOC. Dr. Robbins has nine years of correctional medicine experience. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama, attended UAB medical school with a residency at the University of Mississippi. He spent 20 years working as an emergency physician with 12 of those years as the ER medical director. He brought this experience to corrections as a site medical director in Alabama's largest prison. His work there launched him into a regional medical position. Serving as the chairman for the Clinical Quality Committee, he helped to update multiple policies and develop other projects for YesCare. He also authored the company's Emergency Response Tools and established guidelines for treatment of opioid dependent pregnant women for Florida jails. After six challenging years as the southeast regional director of jails, he moved into his current statewide role. Dr. Robbins enlisted in the U.S. Army, working behind the wall in Berlin, Germany as a Russian analyst with a top-secret SCI clearance, and later joined the reserves achieving the rank of Major.