Michelle Alexander

Background

About Michelle Alexander

With more than 30 years in occupational and environmental medicine practice, Dr. Alexander joins Abbott as our Medical Review Officer (MRO) and the leader of our new in-house MRO services team. She joined Abbott in March 2021 and is responsible for helping continue to build our workplace drug testing and occupational health business.Dr. Alexander is a certified MRO and has an extensive history in workplace drug testing and occupational health. Her career spans executive leadership positions including Medical Director at Consolidated Edison of New York, one of the world’s largest energy systems and Corporate Medical Director and Chief Medical Review Officer at Sterling Testing.She also spent ten years of her career as the Assistant Vice President of Occupational Health at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority/New York City Transit, North America’s largest transportation system.Dr. Alexander earned her bachelor’s degree in science from Florida State University and completed her medical degree at the University of Florida, College of Medicine. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Downstate/Kings County Medical Center in Brooklyn,New York and believes strongly in preventative and natural holistic healing.As an industry expert, Dr. Alexander was the designated MRO speaker during her time at the Federal Transit Authority, for the Federal Transit Administration’s National Drug and Alcohol Program Conference.