Robert D. Walley, DO, Relocates to Pulmonary Medicine
Robert D. Walley, DO, recently joined Hattiesburg Clinic Pulmonary Medicine. Walley has been in practice with Hattiesburg Clinic Critical Care Medicine since January 2023 and joined Pulmonary Medicine in July 2024. In addition to seeing patients who have been hospitalized, he will provide prevention, diagnosis and treatment of respiratory disorders in a clinic-based setting.
Walley received his medical degree from William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He then completed an internal medicine residency pulmonary and critical care fellowship with the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine – Largo Medical Center. He then practiced medicine in Amarillo, Texas, where he served as a staff pulmonary and critical care physician and taught medical students and residents with the Texas Tech College of Medicine.
As a pulmonologist, Walley treats common pulmonary diseases including asthma, COPD and pneumonia. As a critical care physician, he has a special interest in cardiac critical care patients and has a background in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, left ventricular assist devices, and transplant management.
Walley’s passion is education for both his patients and trainees. He has developed didactic curricula for residents and fellows throughout his training and has been an enthusiastic teacher of residents and students since becoming an attending physician. He has presented for the Mississippi Osteopathic Medical Association as well as with local medical students and resident physicians since beginning his work with Hattiesburg Clinic.
“I feel my role as a physician is not only to help my patients but also to empower them through education,” Walley said.
For more information, call (601) 268-5650 or visit www.hattiesburgclinic.com.
Additional providers at Pulmonary Medicine include L. Wesley Aldred, MD, FACP; Kevin J. Kinloch, MD; Lewis W. Neese, MD, FCCP; Michael J. Raggio, MD, FCCP; Andrew H. Rogness, MD; R. Jackson Ross, MD; Walid G. Younis, MD; Dylan W. Boyd, AGACNP; and Lindsey S. Miller, FNP.
Additional providers at Critical Care Medicine include L. Wesley Aldred, MD, FACP; Kevin J. Kinloch, MD; Charles R. McCollum III, MD; Lewis W. Neese, MD, FCCP; Joe M. Pressler, MD; Michael J. Raggio, MD, FCCP; Andrew H. Rogness, MD; R. Jackson Ross, MD; Steven W. Stogner, MD, FCCP; Walid G. Younis, MD; W. Anthony Adcock, AGACNP; Casie W. Barnes, AGACNP; Tiffany King, AGACNP, FNP; Erin L. Mills, DNP, ACNPC-AG; and W. Brad Pickering, AGACNP.
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About Hattiesburg Clinic Pulmonary Medicine:
Pulmonary Medicine provides prevention, diagnosis, treatment, critical care and rehabilitation of respiratory disorders in the adult patient, including COPD. This includes the diagnosis and management of interstitial lung diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, infectious lung disease and occupational lung disease, the treatment of drug-related pulmonary disorders and the diagnosis of carcinoma in suspected patients.
About Hattiesburg Clinic Critical Care Medicine:
Hattiesburg Clinic Critical Care Medicine provides care to patients who are in need of life support or other intensive medical care. Critical Care Medicine services include the diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of life-threatening medical problems. While Critical Care Medicine physicians are the primary provider of care to patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), they work alongside additional ICU professionals to develop a plan of care tailored to each patient. Critical Care Medicine and the Intensive Care Unit are located in Forrest General Hospital.
About Hattiesburg Clinic:
Hattiesburg Clinic is Mississippi’s largest privately-owned, multispecialty clinic. More than 55 years after its beginning, the clinic has grown to over 450 physicians and providers, caring for patients in more than 17 counties in South Mississippi. Along with over 2,000 professional staff employees, these physicians and providers come together for a common purpose, to serve the over 500,000 community members who live and work in South Mississippi every day.
