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Ruth Robinson, DO (she/her/hers)

Annapolis, Maryland

Ruth A. Robinson, DO, MBA, a board-certified family physician, retired from the US Air Force in 2001 and from the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser) in 2013. After 2013, she enjoyed more time off and worked part time for Kaiser Permanente, mostly doing urgent care. She also mentored internal medicine residents during their ambulatory care rotation at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. She fully retired in 2021.

Dr Robinson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, while her father attended the Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery. Her family returned to the Detroit area after her father graduated in 1954. She grew up surrounded by osteopathic physicians. It was not until she went to college that she met any MDs. After graduating from University of Michigan with a BA in sociology, she completed her pre-med requirements. She graduated from Michigan State University-College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1978. Following her internship at the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine in Portland, she completed a residency in General Practice at the same hospital. A spirit of adventure led to what was intended to be at most a three-year tour of duty in Germany with the US Air Force. Twenty years later, in 2001, she retired from the Air Force, as Chief of the Medical Staff at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

In 2001, she transitioned into civilian life and joined the Mid-Atlantic Kaiser Permanente Medical Group as a family physician. During the next 13 years, she combined her administrative and leadership skills with clinical practice at Kaiser Permanente in Maryland.

As a member of the Maryland Association of Osteopathic Physicians since 1996, she dedicated several years to serving as a trustee, assuming the role of president from 2006 to 2007. After several years of effort by the MAOP to have a DO appointed to the Maryland Board of Physician Quality Assurance (BPQA, now the Maryland Board of Physicians), and in recognition of her expertise and contributions, she was appointed as the first DO to serve on the BPQA by the Maryland governor in 2002.

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