MEDICAL CENTER REPORT
10/31/07
Robinson named to Schulman endowed professorship
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Thomas Robinson |
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Thomas Robinson, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics and of medicine, has been named the Irving Schulman, MD, Endowed Professor in Child Health.
The professorship was established in 2004 with a gift from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. It honors Irving Schulman, MD, who was chief of staff and chair of pediatrics when the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital opened in 1991.
Holders of the professorship are faculty members of the Department of Pediatrics, whose teaching and/or research is related to the field of pediatric health policy, outcomes and prevention.
Robinson is internationally known for his research on childhood obesity and the effects of media on children's health. His research is "solution-oriented," developing and evaluating theory-driven, school-, family- and community-based health promotion and disease prevention interventions for children and adolescents. Those interventions include preventing and treating obesity, and reducing children's TV use.
Robinson is also director of the Center for Healthy Weight in the Department of Pediatrics and Packard Children's Hospital.
