Robert Samuel Decosta Higgins MD, MSHA, is an American surgeon working with heart–lung transplants.
He earned a master's degree in health services administration at Virginia Commonwealth University.
[citation needed] Higgins became president and chief academic officer for Rush University and the chief clinical and academic officer and senior vice president for Rush University System for Health in April 2024.
He also served as a major in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps for 13 years and while doing so, supported the Richmond Veterans Administration transplantation program.
Higgins is a founding board member of the International Center for Genetic Disease at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, which focuses on the analysis of patients and healthy subjects from different parts of the world for genetics research into human disease and health.