Thomas Robinson
Academic Appointments
- Professor, Pediatrics - General
- Member, Cancer Center
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Pediatric Weight Clinic 1174 Castro St Ste 250 MC 5811 Mt. View, CA 94040 Tel Work (650) 694-0600 Fax (650) 725-5577Practices at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Professional Snapshot
Clinical Focus
- General Pediatrics
- Pediatrics, General
Administrative Appointments
- Irving Schulman, MD Endowed Professor in Child Health, Stanford University (2007 - present)
- Director, Center for Healthy Weight, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics (2005 - present)
- Associate Director, Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention, Children's Health Initiative, Department of Pediatrics (2005 - present)
Professional Education
| Fellowship: | SUMC - Graduate Medical Education, CA (1993) |
| Board Certification: | General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (1991) |
| Residency: | Children's Hospital of Boston, MA (1991) |
| Internship: | Children's Hospital of Boston, MA (1989) |
| Medical Education: | Stanford University School of Medicine, CA (1988) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
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Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Dr. Robinson focuses on "solution-oriented" research, developing and evaluating effective health promotion and disease prevention interventions for children and adolescents and their families. His research is largely experimental, conducting school-, family- and community-based randomized controlled trials to test the efficacy and/or effectiveness of theory-driven behavioral, social and environmental interventions to prevent and treat obesity and eating disorders, improve nutrition, increase physical activity and decrease inactivity, reduce smoking, reduce aggression, reduce children's television and media use, and to demonstrate causal relationships between hypothesized risk factors and health outcomes. Robinson's research is grounded in social cognitive models of human behavior, uses rigorous methods, and is performed in generalizable settings with diverse populations, making the results even more relevant for informing clinical and public health practice and policy.
Publications
- Save the world, prevent obesity: piggybacking on existing social and ideological movements. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2010: S17-22
- Identifying subgroups of u.s. Adults at risk for prolonged television viewing to inform program development. Am J Prev Med. 2010; (1): 17-26
- Parent-only interventions may be effective for weight loss in overweight children in rural areas. J Pediatr. 2009; (5): 776
- Withdrawal symptoms over time among adolescents in a smoking cessation intervention: do symptoms vary by level of nicotine dependence? Addict Behav. 2009; (12): 1017-22
- Changes in physical activity from walking to school. J Nutr Educ Behav. 2008 Sep-Oct; (5): 324-6
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