Thomas Robinson
Academic Appointments
- Professor, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
- Member, Child Health Research Institute
- Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
- Professor, Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center
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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
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Email Tel (650) 723-5331
Professional Overview
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: | Stanford University School of Medicine CA (1993) |
| Residency: | Children's Hospital Boston MA (1991) |
| B.S.: | Stanford University, Biological Sciences (1983) |
| M.P.H.: | Univ. of California, Berkeley, Public Health, MCH (1987) |
| M.D.: | Stanford University, Medicine (1988) |
| 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
- Harnessing Different Motivational Frames via Mobile Phones to Promote Daily Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Aging Adults. PLoS One. 2013; (4): e62613
- On the use of robust estimators for standard errors in the presence of clustering when clustering membership is misspecified. Contemp Clin Trials. 2013; (2): 248-56
- The utility of childhood and adolescent obesity assessment in relation to adult health. Med Decis Making. 2013; (2): 163-75
- Assessing teen smoking patterns: the weekend phenomenon. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2012; (1-3): 242-5
- Efficacy and tolerability of pharmacotherapies to aid smoking cessation in adolescents. Paediatr Drugs. 2012; (2): 91-108
- Expected body weight in adolescents: comparison between weight-for-stature and BMI methods. Pediatrics. 2012; (6): e1607-13
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