Eric J. Robinson

Eric J. Robinson, MD

Robinson in 2023

Occupation

Urology resident

Institution

Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles

Education

Williams College (BA)
Oregon Health & Science University (MD)

Known for

Clinical urology; AI in healthcare research

Websites

ericjrobinson.com
ericjrobinson.net

Eric J. Robinson is an American physician and urology resident at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles, California. His research work spans clinical urology, applied artificial intelligence in healthcare, and medical education.

1  Current projects [edit]

• Ambient AI scribe adoption in urology — qualitative, grounded-theory study of how urologists adopt (or abandon) ambient AI clinical documentation, based on interviews across adoption groups; part of a larger KPSC system-wide evaluation.
• A staged framework for operational AI adoption in healthcare — white paper proposing an evidence-graded framework for evaluating administrative and operational AI in health systems.
• Trospium and incident dementia — nested case-control study (KPSC, adults ≥55) examining whether cumulative trospium exposure is associated with dementia risk relative to other anticholinergics.
• Decipher genomic classifier in prostate cancer — cohort study of how genomic risk scores relate to treatment decisions, including racial and socioeconomic disparities in management of localized prostate cancer.
• Prostate auto-segmentation pipeline — open-source tool that detects imaging modality and segments the prostate from CT (TotalSegmentator) or MRI (nnU-Net v2).
• PSA testing after a high-profile diagnosis — difference-in-differences analysis of whether a widely publicized prostate cancer diagnosis changed PSA testing patterns in men over 80.
• Retained ureteral stent tracker — quality-improvement EMR dashboard that surfaces patients with overdue ureteral stents using existing data, to prevent retained-stent complications.
• Infodemiology of Morgellons / delusions of parasitosis — ecological study of the geographic distribution of public interest using digital-trace data (search trends) and population covariates.
• Resident impact on operative time — retrospective cohort of ~800 pediatric laparoscopic inguinal hernia repairs assessing how resident involvement affects operative duration.
• "Actin' up": Actinomyces of the bladder dome — case report of an infiltrative bladder-dome mass mimicking urachal adenocarcinoma that proved to be Actinomyces infection, allowing bladder preservation.
• Brown-noise sleep device — personal hardware project: a standalone ESP32-based brown-noise generator with a custom 3D-printed enclosure.

2  Completed projects [edit]

1. "Evolution toward early stent removal and reduced antibiotic prophylaxis post-cystectomy". The Canadian Journal of Urology. 2026; 33(3):649–656. doi
2. "Rectal spacer gel displacement of the rectum during prostate cryoablation: a case series". Journal of Urologic Oncology. 2025. doi
3. "Physician vs. AI-generated messages in urology: evaluation of accuracy, completeness, and preference by patients and physicians". World Journal of Urology. 2024. doi
4. "Outcomes of a standardized pain pathway for transgender patients undergoing vaginoplasty and vulvoplasty". Urology. 2024. doi
5. "Pyeloplasty may reverse the effect of growth delay from ureteropelvic junction obstruction in infants". International Urology and Nephrology. 2024. doi
6. "Minimizing opioids after gender-affirming orchiectomy: a multimodal pain pathway". The Canadian Journal of Urology. 2023. PubMed
7. "Pilot testing of simulation in the evaluation of a novel, rapidly deployable electronic health record for use in disaster intensive care". Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 2023. doi
8. "Pediatric cystectomy for refractory cystitis post-bone marrow transplant in dyskeratosis congenita: a case report". Urology Case Reports. 2022. doi
9. "Utilizing eye tracking to assess electronic health record use by pharmacists in the intensive care unit". American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 2022. doi
10. "Automated digital TIL analysis (ADTA) adds prognostic value to standard assessment of depth and ulceration in primary melanoma". Scientific Reports. 2021. doi
11. "Deep learning based on standard H&E images of primary melanoma tumors identifies patients at risk for visceral recurrence and death". Clinical Cancer Research. 2020. doi
12. "Mapping cortical integration of sensory and affective pain pathways". Current Biology. 2020. doi
13. "A deep learning approach for real-time detection of sleep spindles". Journal of Neural Engineering. 2019. doi
14. "A novel neuromodulation strategy to enhance the prefrontal control to treat pain". Molecular Pain. 2019. doi
15. "Effects of a single subanaesthetic dose of ketamine on pain and mood after laparoscopic bariatric surgery: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled study". European Journal of Anaesthesiology. 2018. PubMed
16. "System and method for tumor characterization". US Patent 12,536,223. Assignee: New York University. Google Patents

3  Background [edit]

• Urology Resident — Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles, CA (2023–2029)
• MD — Oregon Health & Science University (2019–2023)
• Research Staff — NYU Langone Health, New York, NY (2017–2019)
• Medical Scribe — Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY (2016–2018)
• Post-Baccalaureate — Columbia University (2016–2018)
• EDI Interface Analyst — Epic (2013–2015)
• BA, Mathematics & Psychology — Williams College (2009–2013)

4  Contact [edit]

• Email: ericjrobinsonmd@gmail.com

5  External links [edit]

• ORCID: 0000-0002-6334-3540
• LinkedIn: ericjamesrobinson
• ericjrobinson.com
• ericjrobinson.net