Robert Emerson Windom (July 14, 1930 – October 21, 2016) was an American physician who served as the United States Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services under President Ronald Reagan from 1986-89.^[1]

Windom graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in 1952, and obtained an M.D. in 1956.^[1] In 1970, he was appointed Clinical Associate professor of internal medicine at University of South Florida College of Medicine, and has been a Clinical professor of internal medicine at the same university since 1981.^[1]

He was married with three children, and lived in Sarasota, Florida at the time of his death.^[2] He died on October 21, 2016, aged 86.^[3]