Dr. Robbin Young joined CCHS as assistant professor in the Department of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine and as a chief nursing officer at University Medical Center, which is operated by the College. As chief nursing officer, Young is responsible for overseeing the education and training of the nursing workforce at UMC’s six clinics in West Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Northport, Demopolis, Carrollton, Livingston and Fayette) and the UA Student Health Center and Pharmacy, which CCHS also operates. Prior to joining CCHS and UMC, Young held clinical positions as a director of Acute Care Education at Tampa General Hospital in Florida; senior director of Critical Care Services at Inova Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, VA.; interim chief nursing officer at Adventist Fort Washington in Fort Washington, MD.; and as a clinical operations and educations leader for American Mobile Nurses Healthcare. She also was an assistant professor at Chamberlain University in Virginia. Young received her bachelor’s degree in nursing and her master’s degree in health care education from the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Md. She completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Ariz.