Bob Coates

About Bob Coates

Bob Coates has developed a successful career as a national presence in high watermark delivery of demonstrated compliant and cost effective ROI Integrated healthcare. Bob has worked either professionally in clinical practice, or as an executive healthcare practitioner, in proprietary primary care, rural health clinics, behavioral health, neurology, physical therapy, interventional pain management, clinical laboratory services in both hematology and toxicology, concierge medicine, radiology, community mental health centers. He has represented his compliance clients since 1993 before investigative agencies as to compliance with U.S. Healthcare Laws. He is a federally registered lobbyist offering healthcare and faith-based government relations services. In clinical practice since 1978, Bob is licensed in Tennessee as a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor, in Virginia as a Licensed Professional Counselor, and Florida as Licensed Mental Health Counselor. His clinical focus since 2007 has been in the development of recovery programs and telemedicine for impaired healthcare and legal professionals. His corporate focus in healthcare has been in the development of compliant pain management programs nationally under Pulido Coates and Associates, and patient-centered integrative healthcare. Bob serves as a SAMHSA grant reviewer and since 1997 as a provider of healthcare professional’s Continuing Education recognized by the Florida Division of Medical Quality Assurance. A graduate of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, clinical training at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, Bob also has been certified in Mind-Body Psychology at the Benson-Henry Institute of Mind-Body Psychology at Harvard Medical School. Bob continues to practice as a clinical psychotherapist in Alexandria, Virginia, Tampa, Florida, and Franklin, Tennessee.

Experience

1. Registered Federal Lobbyist

   Symedica Network

   Feb 2017 — Present · Washington, DC, US

Education

• Baylor University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature; Religion

  1973 — 1976

• East Tennessee State University

  Post Masters, Counseling Psychology

  1986 — 1989

• Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

  Master of Divinity (MDiv), Greek and Pastoral Care

  1976 — 1978