Karen A. Robinson | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | BS, 1988, BA, 1989, McMaster University M.Sc., 1992, University of Waterloo PhD, Epidemiology, 2009, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
Karen A. Robinson is a Canadian-American epidemiologist. She is a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University and Director of the school's Evidence-based Practice Center.
Robinson earned her Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees from McMaster University and her Master's degree in the University of Waterloo. Following this, she moved to the United States for her PhD in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. [1]
Upon completing her master's of science degree, Robinson became the Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins University's Evidence Based Practice Center in 2002. [2] While serving as director, the Evidence Based Practice Center was selected by the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to participate in their Evidence-Based Practice Center IV Program. [3] As a result, they received a five-year contract to "promote evidence-based decision-making and research." [4] In 2009, Robinson joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine. [5]
During the 2019–20 academic year, Robinson was promoted to Full professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins [2] and received an appointment to the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Committee to Review EPA's TSCA Systematic Review Guidance Document. [6]
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center is teaching hospital trauma center, neonatal intensive care unit, geriatrics center, and is home to the Johns Hopkins Burn Center, the only adult burn trauma in Maryland, containing about 420 beds. Located in southeast Baltimore City, Maryland, along Eastern Avenue near Bayview Boulevard, it is part of the Johns Hopkins Health System and named after its close proximity to the Chesapeake Bay. Founded in 1773 as an almshouse, it was relocated several times until its now present location in 1866. In 1925, it transitioned into several municipal hospitals, which transferred ownership to Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1984.
Richard D. Semba is an American ophthalmologist. He grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and received his education at Yale University, Stanford University, and Johns Hopkins University. He did his residency training in ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute (1984–1987) and joined the faculty following his residency. Semba is currently the W. Richard Green Professor of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is Affiliated Faculty with the Center for a Livable Future at Johns Hopkins University. Semba has done field research in Indonesia, Malaysia, Liberia, Malawi, Uganda, Peru, Venezuela, and Mexico. His research interests include nutrition and aging, sustainable diets and food systems, and the history of medicine and nutrition. The Semba laboratory at Johns Hopkins University applies mass spectrometry, proteomics, and metabolomics to gain insight into human aging and aging-related diseases. Dr. Semba has authored or co-authored over 400 scientific peer-reviewed publications. He is author of three books: Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology, The Vitamin A Story: Lifting the Shadow of Death, and A Perfect Vision: Catalogue of the William Holland Wilmer Rare Book Collection.
Marie Diener-West is the Helen Abbey and Margaret Merrell Professor of Biostatistics and the chair of the Master of Public Health Program at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Diener-West is an editor for the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group and a member of the American Public Health Association, American Statistical Association, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and the Society for Clinical Studies.
Kay Dickersin is an academic who trained first in cell biology and subsequently epidemiology. She went on to a career studying factors that influence research integrity, in particular publication bias and outcome reporting bias. She is retired Professor Emerita in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where she was Director of the Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence Synthesis there. She was also Director of the US Cochrane Center and the US Satellite of the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group within the Cochrane Collaboration. Dickersin received multiple awards for her research.
Erin Kathleen Donnelly Michos is an American cardiologist. She is an associate professor of Medicine and Director of Women's Cardiovascular Health at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Michos is also an Associate Faculty of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research at Johns Hopkins, and has a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Sapna Ravi Kudchadkar is an American critical care physician and anesthesiologist. She is an Associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, pediatrics and physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Amanda Brown is an American immunologist and microbiologist as well as an associate professor of neurology and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Brown is notable for cloning one of the first recombinant HIV viruses and developing a novel method to visualize HIV infected cells using GFP fluorescence.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Anne Hunt is an American pediatric intensivist and critical-care specialist. She is the David S. and Marilyn M. Zamierowski Director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center.
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David Wesley Dowdy is an American infectious disease epidemiologist. He is the B. Frank and Kathleen Polk Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Jennifer Sue Lawton is an American cardiothoracic surgeon who specializes in adult cardiac surgery. She is the Richard Bennett Darnall Professor of Surgery and chief of the Johns Hopkins Division of Cardiac Surgery.
Redonda Gail Miller is an American public health leader. After serving as chief resident, vice chair for clinical operations for the Department of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs, she became the first women president of Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2016.
Wendy Susan Post is an American cardiologist. She is the Director of Cardiovascular Research for the Division of Cardiology and Director of Research for the Hopkins Cardiovascular Fellowship Training Program.
Maria M. Oliva-Hemker is an American pediatrician. She is the Stermer Family Professor of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Susan Gail Sherman is an American epidemiologist. She is the Bloomberg Professor of American Health in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at Johns Hopkins University.
Josef Coresh is an American epidemiologist. He is the inaugural George W. Comstock Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. Coresh serves as the director of both the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Training Program and the George W. Comstock Center for Public Health Research and Prevention at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Felicia Hill-Briggs is an American behavioral and social scientist.
Tina Lee Cheng is an American pediatrician. In 2020, she was named the Chair of Pediatrics, Chief Medical Officer, and Research Foundation Director of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Xiaobin Wang is an American molecular epidemiologist. She is the Zanvyl Krieger Professor in Children’s Health at Children’s Memorial Institute and director of the Center on the Early Life Origins of Disease at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Leigh Ebony Boulware is an American general internist, physician-scientist, and clinical epidemiologist. She is the Eleanor Easley Professor of Medicine and director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the Duke University School of Medicine.
