Lauren K. Robinson, MD, MPH

Bio

Dr. Robinson is assistant professor of psychiatry and associate clerkship director at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Robinson completed a dual-degree program earning a master’s degree in public health in addition to her doctorate from Tulane University School of Medicine, focusing on community-based health systems delivery. She completed residency and a fellowship in clinical medical ethics at University of Chicago. She subsequently pursued a fellowship in forensic psychiatry at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University. She has remained at Northwestern as faculty teaching residents and medical students clinical inpatient psychiatry, correctional psychiatry, and clinical medical ethics. She currently serves on Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Ethics Committee.

She has advocated, lectured, and published in several areas, including addressing health inequities and underserved communities, PTSD and trauma-focused care, correctional psychiatry, personality disorders, and gender and sexual minorities, which includes assessments for gender-affirming treatments and procedures. She developed a correctional telepsychiatry clinic in to expand psychiatric services to incarcerated persons across the state of Illinois. Her current areas of research include self-injury in transgendered and non-binary persons who are incarcerated.