Tom Robinson

Thomas N. Robinson, MD, MPH, Irving Schulman, MD Endowed Professor of Child Health; Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics; Professor, Department of Medicine. Stanford Prevention Research Center; Professor (by courtesy), Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine

Research Description:  For over two decades Dr. Robinson’s research has focused on designing and testing solutions for prevention of obesity, diabetes and related chronic diseases among children and their families. His research is largely experimental in design, conducting individual-, family-, school-, and community-based randomized controlled trials to test the efficacy and effectiveness of theory-driven behavioral, social, and environmental interventions to prevent and reduce obesity, improve nutrition, increase physical activity, decrease children’s television and other screen media use, reduce smoking, increase environmentally sustainable behaviors, and reduce health disparities. He actively collaborates with multiple SDRC members in these areas.

Selected relevant publications (Stanford DRC members in BOLD):

  1. Reeves B, Robinson T, Ram N. Time for the Human Screenome Project. Nature. 2020 Jan;577(7790):314-317. doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-00032-5. PMID: 31942062. 

  2. Robinson TN. Using Metrics of Kilograms (or Pounds) Overweight or Kilograms (or Pounds) Obese to Help Interpret and Communicate Magnitudes of Excess Body Mass Index. JAMA Pediatr. 2020 Dec 21:e205196. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5196. PMID: 33346794; PMCID: PMC7754076. 

  3. Han J, King F, Klonoff D, Drincic A, Crosby KP, Robinson T, Gabbay RA, Oley L, Ahn D, Evans B, Salber P, Cruz M, Ginsberg B, Adi S, Armstrong D, Kerr D. Digital Diabetes Congress 2019. J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2019 Sep;13(5):979-989. doi: 10.1177/1932296819872107. PMID: 31466480; PMCID: PMC6955443. 

  4. King H, Magnus M, Hedges LV, Cyr C, Young-Hyman D, Kettel Khan L, Scott-Sheldon LAJ, Saul JA, Arteaga S, Cawley J, Economos CD, Haire-Joshu D, Hunter CM, Lee BY, Kumanyika SK, Ritchie LD, Robinson TN, Schwartz MB. Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: Methods for Taxonomy Development for Application in Taxonomic Meta-Analysis. Child Obes. 2020 Sep;16(S2):S27-S220. doi: 10.1089/chi.2020.0138. PMID: 32936039; PMCID: PMC7482109. 

  5. Robinson TN, Matheson D, Haydel KF, Flora J, Desai M. Packaging and Scaling the Stanford Pediatric Weight Control Program: A Family-Based, Group, Behavioral Weight Management Program for Children with Obesity and Their Families: Background, Rationale, and Design of the Stanford CORD 3.0 Project. Child Obes. 2021 Sep;17(S1):S86-S92. doi: 10.1089/chi.2021.0166. PMID: 34569840; PMCID: PMC8574198. 

  6. Mathur MB, Peacock J, Reichling DB, Nadler J, Bain PA, Gardner CD, Robinson TN. Interventions to reduce meat consumption by appealing to animal welfare: Meta-analysis and evidence-based recommendations. Appetite. 2021 Sep 1;164:105277. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105277. Epub 2021 May 11. PMID: 33984401.