Michelle W. Robertson, MD, MPH

Michelle W. Robertson, MD, MPH, is an occupational and environmental medicine physician at the Department of Veterans Affairs New Jersey War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (VA NJ WRIISC). Dr. Robertson provides in-person and telephonic consultations to Veterans and affiliated healthcare providers regarding medically unexplained symptoms and exposures of concern during military service. Dr. Robertson’s other area of interest includes employing the biopsychosocial approach to health to improve quality of life and prevention of chronic disease.

Dr. Robertson is currently on faculty at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine and previously served as the associate director of the residency training program in occupational and environmental medicine at the Rutgers-University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). At the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), she provided care to injured workers and performed surveillance evaluations. In addition, she evaluated and treated first responders in the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program.

Dr. Robertson has completed additional training in occupational and environmental medicine at UMDNJ- Robert Wood Johnson Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine and received a master’s degree in environmental and occupational health from the Rutgers-UMDNJ School of Public Health. She is board certified in both family practice and occupational medicine.