Robinson Joins GA-PCOM Team

November 28, 2016

Ben Robinson has been named Chief Program Development and Professional Relations Officer for
Georgia Campus – Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

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With an extensive background in health workforce education planning, Ben Robinson, MPA, has been appointed Chief Program Development and Professional Relations Officer for Georgia Campus – Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (GA-PCOM).

In this position, Robinson will coordinate academic program development and pursue partnerships for new and expanding programs. He will also collaborate with healthcare providers to increase clinical education opportunities for GA-PCOM students in osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, physician assistant studies, the developing physical therapy program and biomedical research.

Before joining GA-PCOM, Robinson served as executive director for the Center for Health Workforce Planning and Analysis for the University System of Georgia, where he managed multi-million dollar initiatives to increase medical residencies across the state to address physician shortages. In addition, he was charged with overseeing strategic initiatives pertaining to the health workforce and the education systems that are producing that workforce. Robinson also facilitated implementation and ongoing operations of select academic programs that combined the resources and operations of multiple University System of Georgia institutions, ensuring efficiency and long term viability of these programs.

Prior to this position, he served as Executive Director of the Georgia Board for Physician Workforce and the State Medical Education Board of Georgia, charged with overseeing the state response to rural physician shortages and development of the primary care physician workforce. As executive director, Robinson advised Georgia medical schools and hospital medical education leadership, and managed communications with leadership in the Governor’s Office and in the state House and Senate. He played a pivotal role in the expansion of the Medical College of Georgia into Athens.

Robinson has also served as Manager of Workforce Initiatives at the Georgia Department of Community Health where he worked for the passage of legislation that established a standing Healthcare Workforce Policy Advisory Committee overseeing Georgia’s non-physician healthcare workforce. He was the committee’s chief staff member and secured about $13 million in funding from state agencies and private foundations to support committee efforts.

A graduate of Brandeis University, Boston, Massachusetts, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in History, Robinson completed a graduate degree at the University of Georgia in Athens where he received a Master of Public Administration. He is active in the community, currently serving as a mentor in the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program, as an assistant Cub Scout den leader and as a member of the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra.

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