Justin Rowberry MD

Education

Medical Degree- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University 2005
Pediatric Residency- San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium 2008
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Fellowship- Yale University 2013

Biography

Colonel Justin R. Rowberry is the Director of the Developmental and Behavioral Family Readiness Center (DBFRC), Defense Health Headquarters, Virginia. He is creating and leading an innovative health program designed to provide developmental, behavioral, and mental health care to remote or underserved locations across the Air Force. He has grown the DBFRC from a 4-provider pilot program in PACAF to now having 9 teams of physicians, nurses, speech therapists, and social workers across the globe. Col Rowberry ensures timely delivery of needed remote care through a combination of virtual video visits, specialty provider extender training, and provider TDYs. The DBFRC has proved crucial to readiness through strategic delivery of care where and when it is needed, decreasing EFMP denials, decreasing reassignments for medical reasons, and improving dependent healthcare outcomes.

Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications

Director, Developmental and Behavioral Family Readiness Center 2022-Present

Complex Pediatrics Clinical Community, Air Force Representative 2022-Present

Regional Director, Kadena Developmental and Behavioral Family Readiness Center Hub 2019-2022

Special Experience Identifier for Excellence in Clinical Teaching 2017

Educational and Developmental Intervention Services Medical Director, RAF Lakenheath 2016-2019

Air Force Pediatrician of the Year, Uniformed Services West Chapter 2010

Rowberry, J., Autism Spectrum Disorders, in Talwalkar JS, Fenick AM, eds. Yale Primary Care Pediatric Curriculum. 5th-15th Editions. 2005-2024. Available from http://pcpc.yale.edu

Rowberry, J., Macari, S., Chen, G., Campbell, D., Leventhal, J. M., Weitzman, C., & Chawarska, K. (2015). Screening for Autism Spectrum Disorders in 12-Month-Old High-Risk Siblings by Parental Report. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 45(1), 221-229.

Volkmar, F., Rowberry, J., et al., (2014). Medical Care in Autism and Related Conditions, In Volkmar F., Rogers S., Paul R., & Pelphrey K.. (Eds) Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders (4th edition). John Wiley & Sons.

Katz-Sidlow, R. J., Rowberry, J. P., & Ho, M. (2009). Fever determination in young infants: prevalence and accuracy of parental palpation. Pediatric emergency care, 25(1), 12-14.