Robert H Shipp

Robert H. Shipp, M.D. was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. After serving in the U.S. Navy for two years during World War II, he graduated from Kentucky's Georgetown College in 1948, followed by five years of employment as adult program and membership director of YMCAs in Louisville and Knoxville.He attended and graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 1958, interned at Midstate Baptist Hospital in Nashville, and practiced family and occupational medicine until...See more

Robert H. Shipp, M.D. was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. After serving in the U.S. Navy for two years during World War II, he graduated from Kentucky's Georgetown College in 1948, followed by five years of employment as adult program and membership director of YMCAs in Louisville and Knoxville.He attended and graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 1958, interned at Midstate Baptist Hospital in Nashville, and practiced family and occupational medicine until commissioned a lietutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force in 1975.After serving as a family physician, flight surgeon, and commander of three U.S. Air Force medical facilities, Dr. Shipp retired from the Air Force and practice of medicine in December 1993.Shipp is life member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and American Medical Association. Soon after retiring, he became a charter committee member of the nationally recognized Main Street Program of Kerrville, Texas. Dr. Shipp has five children and has resided for the past eleven years in Kerrville with his wife, Farra Mai Summers Shipp. See less