Dr. Rob Downey, M.D., is the newly elected 2017 Chief of Staff for the South Peninsula Hospital Medical Staff.

Dr. Downey offers an outpatient functional medicine practice, and is the Infection Prevention/Employee Health Physician and Long Term Care Assistant Medical Director for South Peninsula Hospital. He is board certified in Family Medicine and is a certified practitioner by the Institute for Functional Medicine.

Downey replaces outgoing chief of staff Dr. Sarah Spencer.

The Chief of Staff elect is Katie Ostrom, M.D., OB/GYN, and secretary/treasurer is Teresa Johnson, M.D., family practice. In addition to the officers, the Medical Executive Committee includes past chief of staff William Bell, M.D., family practice, and members-at-large Brent Adcox, M.D., orthopedics, and Edson Knapp, M.D., radiology.

Visit www.sphosp.org for a complete list of the medical staff.