Robert B. Snyder, M.D.

Dr. Snyder was appointed Medical Director for the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation in January, 2014 after 37 years of private practice in Orthopaedics.

Dr. Snyder graduated from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit and completed two years of general surgery training at the University of Pittsburgh before he came to Nashville, completing his residency in Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Vanderbilt University.

Special activities have included Associate Team Physician for Vanderbilt and Tennessee State University Athletics, Volunteer Orthopaedic Consultant at Fort Campbell during Desert Storm, 10 teaching missions for Orthopaedics Overseas (an affiliate of Health Volunteers Overseas) in Peru, church related mission activities in Honduras, and the 1996 Hospital Strategic Planning Symposium in Prague, Czech Republic. He served as President of the Medical Staff at St. Thomas Hospital from 1997 through 1999, and on the Medical Care Cost Containment Committee for Workers’ Compensation from its inception in 1992 until 2014.

Dr. Snyder has presented lectures for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Arthroscopy Society of Peru, the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the National Workers Compensation and Disability Conference, the National Association of Workers Compensation Judges, and in Tennessee: the Chiropractic Association, the Orthopaedic Society, the College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the Pain Society, the Neurosurgical Society, the Tennessee Medical Society, and Tennessee Attorney Memo. He has made numerous other presentations to attorneys, case managers, employers, adjusters and insurers.

His activities with the Bureau have focused on Medical Treatment Guidelines, the Drug Formulary, Utilization Review, Case Management, Fee Schedules and physician/provider communications.