Effective December 5, 2017, Dr. Robert Fischer was appointed as the Medical Center Director for Mann-Grandstaff Veteran Affairs Medical Center.
Prior to his arrival to Spokane, WA, he served four years as Deputy Commander of Clinical Services, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany.
Dr. Fischer is an experienced board-certified clinician and healthcare leader having completed thirty-one years of active military service in June of 2016. He has held numerous clinical and executive leadership positions including Chief of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Naval Hospital, Jacksonville, FL, Chief Medical Officer, First Fighter Wing Hospital, Langley AFB, VA and Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Andrews AFB, MD. He was commander of Surgical Services at the Joint Venture VA/DoD hospital, Anchorage, Alaska and served as an assistant clinical professor in Ob/Gyn at the University of Connecticut Health Center and University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is a Certified Physician Executive and was awarded the Army Legion of Merit and Order of Military Medical Merit prior to his retirement from active service.