Robert Robinson - Psychiatry Professor
With a career that spans nearly 40 years, Robert G. Robinson, MD, has made numerous contributions to the field of psychiatry as a professor and instructor. As a professor, Dr. Robinson has lectured at some of the most prestigious medical colleges in the United States, including Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and has been recognized on numerous occasions for his contributions to the field of psychiatry. As a mentor and teacher, Dr. Robert G. Robinson has supervised the work of a number of emerging doctors within his field in the United States and around the world in Australia, Japan, and Argentina.
Having authored hundreds of publications on his extensive work in clinical psychiatry, Dr. Robert G. Robinson has been an active researcher for almost four decades. Awarded millions of dollars in grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Dr. Robinson has uniquely expanded research relating to patients with depression and mood disorders following strokes or brain trauma. He was among the first researchers to use transcranial magnetic stimulation to treat vascular depression, which is a common form of depression among the elderly and resistant to many forms of treatment.
Robert G. Robinson, MD, currently serves as a clinical psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry in Psychiatry, and is board certified in Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine. In recent years, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Western Australia and was awarded a traveling professorship in New Zealand. Dr. Robert G. Robinson received his MD from the Cornell University College of Medicine.