Dr. Robert Flowers is board-certified in both General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and currently serves as the Behavioral Health Medical Director for StationMD. In this role, he leads clinical efforts to provide telepsychiatry services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities across the United States.  Dr. Flowers brings a unique, multidisciplinary background to his work at StationMD. Before entering medicine, he earned a BA in Religion from Davidson College and a Master of Divinity (magna cum laude) from Duke University. His work as a chaplain led him to pursue a career in medicine, which began at the Mercer University School of Medicine where he earned his MD. He completed both his General Psychiatry Residency and his Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Prisma Health/University of South Carolina, where he served as Chief Resident. He has practiced clinically in large academic settings, emergency departments, free standing behavioral health hospitals, state psychiatric hospitals and mental health centers, substance abuse treatment centers, forensic hospitals, outpatient clinics, and I/DD provider agencies. At StationMD, Dr. Flowers’ extensive clinical experience and multidisciplinary perspective drive his commitment to providing evidence-based, accessible, and empathetic care to patients with intellectual disabilities. Alongside his leadership at StationMD, he remains active in clinical practice and academia as an inpatient psychiatrist for adult and pediatric patients in Columbia, SC. He and his family reside in Columbia, SC.