Dr Tom Robinson
Standford University, United States of America
Presentation title: “Stealth Interventions for long-term behavior change”
Thomas Robinson focuses on designing solutions to help children and families improve their health. Dr. Robinson is the Irving Schulman, MD Endowed Professor in Child Health, Professor of Pediatrics, of Medicine, and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health, at Stanford University. He also directs the Stanford Solutions Science Lab and the Center for Healthy Weight at Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford and co-directs the Stanford Screenomics Lab and the Human Screenome Project. He originated the solution-oriented research paradigm, to promote study designs and methods to directly inform medical and public health practice and policy. He is known for his pioneering obesity prevention and treatment research, including the theory of stealth interventions. Dr. Robinson’s solution-oriented research is primarily experimental in design, conducting family-, school-, and community-based randomized controlled trials to test the efficacy and/or effectiveness of theory-driven behavioral, social, environmental, and technology-driven interventions to prevent and reduce obesity, improve nutrition, increase physical activity and decrease inactivity, reduce children's screen time, prevent tobacco and alcohol use, reduce aggressive behavior, and promote energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. Robinson's research is grounded in social cognitive models of human behavior, uses rigorous methods, and is performed in real World settings with diverse populations, making the results of his research more relevant for clinical and public health practice and policy.
Dr. Robinson is published widely in the scientific literature, Principal Investigator on numerous prevention and treatment studies funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and a frequent appointee to expert and advisory panels for leading national and international scientific and public health agencies and organizations. Robinson received both his B.S. and M.D. from Stanford University and his M.P.H. in Maternal and Child Health from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed his internship and residency in Pediatrics at Children's Hospital, Boston and Harvard Medical School, and his post-doctoral training as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford. He has been a faculty member at Stanford since 1991. Dr. Robinson is Board Certified in Pediatrics and a General Pediatrician at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford.