Dr. Settle-Robinsons served as assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopedics at the Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine in Chicago, Illinois before moving to Wisconsin in 1994. She was assistant Director of residency training at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee teaching a pre-med course, designed for undergraduate minorities pursuing a career in medicine, in the Med Prep Program.
Dr. Settle-Robinson wants you to know that “obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal”. She has faced many obstacles in her lifetime and knows that your anchor is your faith in God. “Keep your eyes on the goal and pray!”
Dr. Settle-Robinson graduated from the California College of Podiatric Medicine in San Francisco, California, in 1983. She was the first African American woman to be residency trained in foot surgery in the state of Illinois. She was trained in foot surgery at St. Bernard Hospital on the Southside of Chicago, Illinois. She is a master foot surgeon and a fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. She is also fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Orthopedics and Medicine.
Dr. Settle-Robinson is also a 1977 graduate of the Los Angeles County Medical Center School of Nursing achieving her Registered Nurses’ License when she was 20 years old. Dr. Settle-Robinson continues to maintain her nurses’ license and is a member of the Milwaukee Chapter of Black Nurses’Association.
Dr. Settle-Robinson is active, with her husband, in the national Coalition of ESEA Title I Parents and both are life members. The Robinsons are actively involved in their children’s schools and advocate for improvement in the education offered in the Milwaukee Public School System.
Dr. Settle-Robinson was has now attended 4 of the 8 annual National Colloquiums on American Health put on every Spring by the National Medical Association in Washington DC. Through this venture, she has lobbied senators and congressman to improve funding of programs to eliminate healthcare disparities and increase diversity in the healthcare workforce.
Dr. Settle-Robinson was an emancipated female at age 16, worked and paid for her own high school tuition for junior and senior year of the Mary’s Academy where she graduated in Inglewood, California, in 1974. She completed 21 units of college work by the time she graduated from high school. She received an Associate of Arts Degree in General Studies from Los Angeles Southwest College in 1978. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 1979. She started and headed the organization for Minorities in Science and Engineering on that campus in 1978.
Dr. Rene’ Settle Robinson is a Podiatric Surgeon at Aurora Medical Group in Milwaukee, Wauwatosa and Fox Point. She’s the President of Cream City Medical Society for her seventh year.
She’s a member of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, and Vice-Chair of the Milwaukee County Democratic Party. She ran for State Assembly District 12 in 2004 for an unsuccessful bid receiving 45% of the popular vote. She’s a member of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. She’s a registered nurse, double board of Orthopedics and Primary Podiatric Medicine. She’s a recipient of Black Excellence Award 2004 from the Milwaukee Times Newspaper and was honored as Mrs. Milwaukee County 1999.
The recipient of the Interfaith Dignity Award in 1998 from the Central Interfaith Churches. Honored Mother in 2004 at Paradise Sanctuary Missionary Baptist Church. “And the best mom in the world”, according to her own two children. She is beginning service with the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP as Chair of the Health Committee.
HEALTH ADVOCACY/ PODIATRY
DR.RENE SETTLE-ROBINSON
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