Robert Holman, MD
Board Member
From 2013 to 2016 Dr. Holman served as Internal Medicine Discipline Director for Unity Health Care, Washington’s largest federally qualified health center. In 2016 he was asked to assist in the transformation of Washington, D.C.’s Fire and EMS agency, where he became their longest serving Medical Director – with accomplishments including:
Development of the nation’s largest 911 nurse triage line;
Increase in Utstein cardiac arrest survival rates from below national average in 2016 to being tied for #1 in the US in 2023; neurologically intact survivors increased by 200%;
Improvement in stroke bundle of care performance from 7% in October 2022 to 70% in May 2024;
Facilitated interagency collaboration to establish the D.C. Stabilization Center that directs intoxicated patients from Emergency Departments to a community stabilization center; and
Launched field transfusion of whole blood in D.C., contributing to a decreased homicide rate.
Dr. Holman served on GUSOM’s Committee on Admissions from 2001-09 and served the National Board of Medical Examiners for sixteen years as, primarily, a member of the USMLE Step 2 committee. He is recipient of the 2024 Eagle award for national leadership in EMS, awarded by the Metropolitan Medical Directors Global Alliance.
Dr. Holman obtained his BA in Latin from the University of California, Davis, graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine, interned at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, and later returned to Georgetown for the remainder of his Internal Medicine residency and chief residency before completing a Medical Staff Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
