Robert Windom

{{short description|American physician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Robert Windom

| image =

| title = United States Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services

| term_start = 1986

| term_end = 1989

| predecessor = Edward Brandt, Jr.

| successor = James O. Mason

| birth_name = Robert Emerson Windom

| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|07|14}}

| birth_place = Columbus, Ohio, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|10|21|1930|7|14}}

| death_place = Sarasota, Florida, U.S.

}}

Robert Emerson Windom (July 14, 1930 – October 21, 2016) was an American physician who served as the United States Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services under President Ronald Reagan from 1986-89.{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=37234|title=Ronald Reagan: Nomination of Robert E. Windom To Be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services|publisher=presidency.ucsb.edu|accessdate=2016-08-01}}

Windom graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in 1952, and obtained an M.D. in 1956. In 1970, he was appointed Clinical Associate professor of internal medicine at University of South Florida College of Medicine, and has been a Clinical professor of internal medicine at the same university since 1981.

He was married with three children, and lived in Sarasota, Florida at the time of his death.{{cite web|url=http://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-robert-windom-wfk8l|title=Dr. Robert Windom, MD - Sarasota, FL - Internal Medicine | Healthgrades.com|publisher=healthgrades.com|accessdate=2016-08-01}} He died on October 21, 2016, aged 86.{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/heraldtribune/obituary.aspx?pid=182053152 |title=Robert Windom Obituary - Sarasota, FL | Herald Tribune |publisher=Legacy.com |date= |accessdate=2016-10-30}}