A career in medicine
The Path
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1976–1979
United States Army Medical Service Corps.
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1984
Doctor of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Centro América (UACA), San José, Costa Rica. Graduated top of his class with honors.
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1986
MEDEX Physician Assistant Program, Charles Drew University, Los Angeles. Graduated first in his class.
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1987
Licensed in Nevada. Las Vegas ever since.
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2000
Opened his first practice, Clínica Santa María, in Las Vegas.
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2005
Founded a private hospital in Costa Rica and served as its chief executive.
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2009
Sold the hospital.
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2010
Founded CIMA Medical Centers, incorporated in January, and opened a second Las Vegas office.
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2015
Opened a third office — the same location where he still sees patients today.
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2016
Opened a fourth office, and a fifth dedicated to house calls, bringing primary care to patients who could not easily travel to a clinic.
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2021
Sold all five Las Vegas practices, and founded Modern Wellness Clinic, where he is a managing partner and practices today.
How He Practices
Whole-person, comprehensive, evidence-based.
He takes time to understand not just symptoms but a patient's full history and life — what came before it, what else is going on alongside it, and what a person is actually trying to get back to. That takes longer than a fifteen-minute visit usually allows, which is why the visits are not fifteen minutes.
He has stayed deliberately current across a long career — continuing education, training courses, and clinical conferences in hormone medicine, aesthetics, and wellness. The medicine he practices today is not the medicine he trained in, which he considers the point.
Credentials
- Medical Degree
- Universidad Autónoma de Centro América (UACA), San José, Costa Rica, 1984. His rotating medical internship spanned pediatrics, internal medicine, surgery, and gynecology. The medical faculty became independent in 1999 and is today the Universidad de Ciencias Médicas (UCIMED).
- Physician Assistant
- MEDEX Program, Charles Drew University, 1986
- Practicing Since
- Nevada, 1987
- Additional Training
- Biote-certified provider, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy
- Languages
- English, Spanish
In their words
Patient comments, published with permission of Modern Wellness Clinic.
Comments are patients' own words, reproduced as written.
Robert Webb is the absolute best provider I have ever had! He makes me feel very comfortable & loved, as does his staff! He always explains everything & he takes the time to take extremely good care of me! I would definitely refer my friends & family to him. I brag about him all the time! ❤️
I highly recommend PA Webb. I have been a patient of his for 3 years now. Wonderful communication and bed side manner with me.
Service
He volunteers at community clinics in Las Vegas. He sees patients in English and Spanish, which in this city is less a credential than a requirement.
