Resume/Curriculum Vitae

A. Robert Sheppard, M.D.

 

Qualifying Statement: The resume and a curriculum vitae are, by their respective nature, very different documents. However, because together they reflect more accurately the education, experience, and qualifications of a single individual, elements of both are included here by utilizing the embedded linking inherent to the Internet.

 

I.  Brief Life History

  • I grew up on a farm in south east Alabama, born on October 28th, 1950, the son of tenant farmers, the youngest of three children. I attended grade school for eleven years at the local public school, Rehobeth High School then transferred to Dothan High School, Dothan, Alabama from which I graduated in 1969. I attended college at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama from which I graduated in 1973 as a premedical student. I attended medical school at the University of Alabama School of Medicine from which I earned an M.D. degree in 1976. I completed a Categorical Internal Medicine Residency at the University of South Alabama Medical College in Mobile, Alabama three years later in 1979. I was asked to remain a fourth year as a Chief Medical Resident during which I focused on the study of Cardiology and Medical Sonology. Upon completing the Chief Medical Residency, I began a practice in Internal Medicine and Cardiology in Carrollton, Alabama which I continued uninterrupted from 1980 to 2002. In 1986 I, in co-operation with other local physicians, formed a not-for-profit corporation (Pickens County Medical Center, Inc... PCMC) through which we very successfully managed the local hospital from 1986 to 2003. I was Chairman of the Board of Directors of PCMC for ten years from 1986 to 1996 at which point I assumed the Chief Executive Officer's post. I continued a medical practice and served as PCMC's CEO from 1996 to 2003. In addition to other intermittent positions such as President of the medical staff, I also served as an active medical staff member, Director of the Vascular Laboratory, Director of the Department of Ultrasound, Director of the Department of Cardiology, and Director of the Intensive Care Unit of the local hospital in Carrollton, Alabama uninterrupted from 1980 to 2003. In early 2003, I conceived and launched the first Hospitalist service at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa Campus and remain as its Director.

 

II.  Brief Education History

  • I attended Rehobeth High School in Rehobeth, AL for eleven years from 1956 to 1968.
  • I attended Dothan High School, Dothan, AL 1968-69 and graduated from there in 1969.
  • I graduated from college at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL in 1973 with a B.S. in chemistry and biology.
  • I graduated from medical school at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL in 1976.
  • I completed a categorical residency in Internal Medicine at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, AL in 1979.
  • I completed a year as Chief Medicine Resident focused in the study of Cardiology and Medical Sonology at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, AL in 1980.

 

III.  Brief History of Professional & Medical Management Experience

  • I began the practice of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Pickens County Hospital (the local hospital) in Carrollton, AL in 1980. I have remained and continued to practice Internal Medicine and Cardiology there to the present time (22 years).
  • I served as one of the founders of Pickens County Medical Center, Inc. assuming the management of Pickens County Hospital (the local hospital) in Carrollton, AL in 1986. I served as the Chairman of its Board of Directors for ten years from 1986 to 1996.
  • I served as the Chief Executive Officer of Pickens County Medical Center, Inc. (the local hospital) in Carrollton, AL from 1996 to 2003.
  • I served as an active medical staff member, Director of the Vascular Laboratory, Director of the Department of Ultrasound, Director of the Department of Cardiology, and Director of the Intensive Care Unit of the local hospital in Carrollton, AL from 1980 to the present.
  • I founded Progressive Medical Education, Inc. a not-for-profit medical educational foundation in 1987. Accredited by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, it continues to provide CME activities for physicians nation-wide to the present.
  • I represented one of the five cofounders of Alabama Health Network, Inc., a regional healthcare organization formed as a network co-operative between Pickens County Medical Center, DCH Regional Medical Center, DCH Northport, Capstone Medical Center, and Bibb Medical Center for the purpose of delivering maternity services to Medicaid patients spanning most of west Alabama. I served as its president from 2002 to the present.
  • I have been the Director and Regional factulty member of the American Heart Association Community Training Center in Pickens County from its beginning in 1994 to the present.
  • I served as a clinical preceptor for Family Medicine residency elective rotations in Cardiology and Internal Medicine for the Family Medicine Residency Program at Tuscaloosa (College of Community Health Sciences) and the Selma Family Medicine Program in Selma, AL from 1984 to 2003.
  • I served as a clinical preceptor for fourth year medical students from the UAB School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL for elective roations in Cardiology and Internal Medicine from 1984 to 2003.

 

IV.  Brief History of Non-professional Work Experience

  • I developed a secondary career as an outdoor writer from 1977 to 1985. During this time I published more than three hundred articles and columns in more than fifty outdoor periodicals and sustained membership in the Outdoor Writers Association of America (a national outdoor writers' professional organization) from 1982 to 1986, and the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association (a regional outdoor writers' professional association) from 1981 to 1993. I also served as the Medical Director of the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association for several years in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
  • I developed a relational database driven model of computerized patient medical records (CPR) for office and clinic based physicians beginning in 1986. By 1995, it was utilized by more than twenty five physicians and contained more than 200,000 records on more than 20,000 patients.
  • I developed a relational database driven model of computerized patient medical records (CPR) for hospitalized patients beginning in the early 1990's. By 1995, it was utilized by the entire medical staff of the local hospital and contained some 500,000 records on more than 25,000 patients.
  • I developed and maintained the web sites of several organizations from 1995 to the present. Some examples include Progressive Medical Education, Inc., Bent Creek Lodge, Inc. and BobSheppard.com.
  • I participated as the primary developer of a model of physician recruitment and retention to rural communities while working with the local hospital in Pickens County, Alabama from 1985 to the present.
  • I developed the church management software program utilized by the PCA Presbyterian church, First Presbyterian Church of Aliceville, Aliceville, AL.
  • I developed the software program utilized by Bent Creek Lodge, Inc., one of the South's largest (45,000 acres) commercial hunting and fishing operations, to manage their deer herd, fisheries, and land holdings.
  • I developed a unique biological technique for separating largemouth bass females from males for the commercial purpose of stocking one sex only lakes (2002)..

 

 V.  Expanded Life History Narrative

 

 

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