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Thomas Robinson

Contact Information

  • Clinical Offices
    Pediatric Weight Clinic 1174 Castro St Ste 250 MC 5811 Mt. View, CA 94040
    Telephone Work (650) 694-0600 Fax (650) 725-5577

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

  • SUMC - Graduate Medical Education (1993) CA
  • Board Certification: General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (1991)
  • Children's Hospital of Boston (1991) MA
  • Children's Hospital of Boston (1989) MA
  • Stanford University School of Medicine (1988) CA
  • B.S., Stanford University Biological Sciences (1983)
  • M.P.H., Univ. of California, Berkeley Public Health, MCH (1987)
  • M.D., Stanford University Medicine (1988)
  • Resident, Children's Hospital, Boston Pediatrics (1991)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, RWJF Clinical Scholar, Stanford Prevention Research (1993)

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

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