Baldwin Health has added board-certified internal medicine physician and gastroenterologist Dr. Robert “Josh” Ousley to its medical staff.
He practices at Baldwin Health Gastroenterology, 1518 North McKenzie Street in Foley, and is accepting new patients.
What He Treats
Ousley provides care for conditions affecting the digestive tract, liver and pancreas, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal and hepatic disorders.
That range covers a substantial share of common medical complaints — reflux, inflammatory bowel disease, liver disease, pancreatic conditions — along with colorectal cancer screening, which is among the most consequential preventive procedures in medicine. Colonoscopy both detects cancer early and removes the precancerous polyps that would have become cancer.
Access to that screening depends on having a gastroenterologist within reasonable reach, which makes a new GI physician in Foley a practical matter for south Baldwin County.
Training
Ousley earned his Doctor of Medicine from the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, where he was named a Dean’s Scholarship and Eichold Scholarship recipient.
He completed his internal medicine internship and residency through the Tinsley Harrison Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
He then completed a gastroenterology fellowship at USA, where he received the Best Fellow Clinical Performance Award in June.
Before medical school, he graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of science in chemistry and biology from UAB.
Credentials and Research
Ousley is board-certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
He has contributed to clinical research published in peer-reviewed medical publications.
An Alabama-Trained Physician Staying in Alabama
Ousley’s path ran entirely through Alabama institutions: undergraduate at UAB, medical school at South Alabama, residency at UAB, fellowship at South Alabama.
That pattern is what state medical education systems are designed to produce and frequently do not. Physicians trained in a state are more likely to practice there, but the pull toward larger markets is persistent — and rural and smaller-city practices are where shortages bite hardest.
A newly fellowship-trained gastroenterologist opening a practice in Foley rather than a major metro is the outcome those programs exist for.
He is accepting new patients at the North McKenzie Street location.