Robert S. Tomchik, M.D.

Robert Steven Tomchik, M.D. resides and practices in Miramar, Florida. He was married for over 30 years to Starley Martin Tomchik. Starley passed away on Sunday, March 2, 2008. Robert and Starley are the parents of two grown sons, Seth Martin Tomchik and Andrew Joseph Tomchik. Seth Tomchik resides in Jupiter, Florida where he is completing a post-doctoral fellowship in neurobiology. Andrew Tomchik resides in Miramar, Florida. On Wednesday, April 8, 2009 Doctor Tomchik's grandson Evan Martin Tomchik was born.

Doctor Robert Tomchik was raised in Lexington, Massachusetts near Boston. His father was a radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Doctor Tomchik went on to study medicine himself at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. During his senior year of medical school he completed an externship in Herbertpur, India. Following graduation from medical school he completed his internship in Family Practice at the University of South Carolina, Richmond Memorial Hospital. He then served two years in the Public Health Service Corps, a branch of the United States Military, on the Crow Indian Reservation in Crow Agency Montana. He served as chief-of-staff at the Crow Agency Hospital. During his service there he became interested in Preventive Medicine. He then went on to complete a residency in Preventive Medicine at the University of Michigan.

Upon completion of his medical studies Doctor Tomchik served as Public Health Officer in county health departments, including: Kalamazoo, Michigan, Fort Myers, Florida, and Goshen, Indian. In Fort Myers, Florida, Doctor Tomchik was recognized for significantly increasing the rate of immunization of school children in Lee County. He later became Chief Epidemiologist in Broward County, Florida. During the time he was Chief Epidemiologist he conducted a research study to discover the cause of sea lice, a rash some people experience after swimming in the ocean. He discovered the causative agent was the sting of the larval stage of the thimble jellyfish. His results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and covered by USA Today newspaper and CNN. During Hurricane Andrew, August 1992, he served as medical liaison at the emergency center at Miami-Dade County, Florida. Following the storm he briefed the late Governor Lawton Chiles on the possibility of disease outbreak, and was interviewed by National Public Radio (NPR).

Doctor Tomchik left government service in 1999 to enter private practice; he formed Health Circle at that time, in Pembroke Pines, Florida. His new, permanent office was built in Miramar, Florida in June 2000 where he practices to this day.

For more information please feel free to read Doctor Tomchik's Curriculum Vitae.