Robert Hamilton, M.D., FACS

Policy Advisor, Health Care

Dr. Hamilton’s additional experience includes: Flight Medical Officer in the United States Air Force; veteran’s hospitals in Nebraska as a medical student, a surgical resident, and teaching faculty; Board of Trustees of the Illinois State Medical Society for 12 years and president of the Madison County Medical Society; medical staff president and chairman of the surgery departments in three hospitals in Alton, Illinois.

Dr. Hamilton is certified by the American Board of Surgery and a member of the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons. He has been actively involved in medical malpractice reform since 1975 and have written many newspaper articles on health care reform since 1993.

Follow Dr. Hamilton’s writings on health care reform on his blog, and at LinkedIn.

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