Michelle Alexander

About Michelle Alexander

With more than 30 years in occupational and environmental medicine practice, Dr. Alexander joins Abbott as our Medical Review Officer (MRO) and the leader of our new in-house MRO services team. She joined Abbott in March 2021 and is responsible for helping continue to build our workplace drug testing and occupational health business.Dr. Alexander is a certified MRO and has an extensive history in workplace drug testing and occupational health. Her career spans executive leadership positions including Medical Director at Consolidated Edison of New York, one of the world’s largest energy systems and Corporate Medical Director and Chief Medical Review Officer at Sterling Testing.She also spent ten years of her career as the Assistant Vice President of Occupational Health at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority/New York City Transit, North America’s largest transportation system.Dr. Alexander earned her bachelor’s degree in science from Florida State University and completed her medical degree at the University of Florida, College of Medicine. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Downstate/Kings County Medical Center in Brooklyn,New York and believes strongly in preventative and natural holistic healing.As an industry expert, Dr. Alexander was the designated MRO speaker during her time at the Federal Transit Authority, for the Federal Transit Administration’s National Drug and Alcohol Program Conference.

Experience

1. Director Medical Affairs

   Abbott

   Mar 2021 — Present · Kansas City, MO, US

   Clinical supervision of Medical Review Officers (MRO) for the review of toxicology results and regulated and non-regulated drug testing. Clinical supervision of occupational health services for review of regulatory examinations under the department of transportation to ensure compliance and safety for public transportation.

Education

• Residency Internal Medicine, Kings County Medical Center/Downstate Hospit

  Internal Medicine Residency Program

  1980 — 1983

• Internship Internal Medicine

  Post Graduate

• Florida State University

  Bachelor of Science Degree, Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies

  1972 — 1976

• University of Florida

  Doctor, Medicine

  1977 — 1980

• University of Florida College of Medicine

  MD, Medicine

  1977 — 1980

Skills

• Medical Education
• Travel Medicine
• Occupational Medicine
• Working with Physicians
• Clinical Research
• Public Health
• Public Speaking
• Policy
• Healthcare Management
• Informatics
• Quality Improvement
• Aerospace Medicine
• Physicians
• Team Building
• Healthcare
• Hospitals
• Medicine
• Lifestyle Medicine
• Strategic Planning
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Preventive Medicine
• Training
• Internal Medicine