Marsha Fishbane, MD
Dr. Marsha Fishbane - pediatrician, public health physician, and dedicated community volunteer - has insights from 43 years of practice in private and public settings and leadership positions at nonprofit and government organizations. Her impact is far-reaching. She is the co-founder and board member of Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County, a former chairperson for the School Health Advisory Council of Palm Beach County, and the former school health medical director for the Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County where she led the implementation of the school health program that placed a nurse in every public school.
Dr. Fishbane is a resident of Singer Island and a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Her pediatric training was completed at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and obtained a master’s in science from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
As a medical professional, she was in private pediatric practice for six years before moving into a 30-year career in public health with the Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County, where she held the positions of community and school health division director and school health medical director before her retirement. Her leadership commitments have included the Early Learning Coalition of Palm Beach County, the Teen Pregnancy Prevention/Teen Parenting Coalition, the Florida Coordinated School Health Partnership, and the Palm Health Foundation.
Dr. Fishbane’s favorite pastimes are traveling, community volunteering, and keeping up with her three daughters, their husbands and four grandchildren.