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
magi.md

Eric J. Robinson is an American physician and urology resident at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles, California, whose work sits at the intersection of clinical urologic oncology and applied artificial intelligence in healthcare. He received a BA in mathematics and psychology from Williams College and an MD from Oregon Health & Science University, and previously worked as an EDI interface analyst at Epic Systems and as a research staff member at NYU Langone Health.

Robinson's research interests span the clinical, technical, and operational sides of artificial intelligence in medicine, from building and validating models to understanding how they are adopted in practice, as well as urologic surgical outcomes and quality improvement. He is a co-inventor on a US patent covering deep learning for tumor characterization.

1  Current projects [edit]

• MAGI — three retrieval agents (textbooks, primary literature, live web search) answer a urology question independently, vote, and a synthesizer reconciles them; magi.md.
• 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.
• 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. "Laparoscopic pediatric inguinal hernia repair as a training platform for surgical residents". Journal of Surgical Research. 2026; 326:996–1002. doi
2. "Actin' up: a bladder-dome catfish — bladder-dome actinomycosis masquerading as locally advanced urachal carcinoma". Western Section American Urological Association 102nd Annual Meeting. 2026. pdf
3. "Ambient artificial intelligence scribes in urology: early lessons from a single-system implementation". Urology Practice. 2026. doi
4. "Three stages of operational artificial intelligence in healthcare: tribal, institutional, and systemic adoption". Western Section American Urological Association 102nd Annual Meeting. 2026. pdf
5. "Evolution toward early stent removal and reduced antibiotic prophylaxis post-cystectomy". The Canadian Journal of Urology. 2026; 33(3):649–656. doi
6. "Rectal spacer gel displacement of the rectum during prostate cryoablation: a case series". Journal of Urologic Oncology. 2025. doi
7. "Physician vs. AI-generated messages in urology: evaluation of accuracy, completeness, and preference by patients and physicians". World Journal of Urology. 2024. doi
8. "Outcomes of a standardized pain pathway for transgender patients undergoing vaginoplasty and vulvoplasty". Urology. 2024. doi
9. "Pyeloplasty may reverse the effect of growth delay from ureteropelvic junction obstruction in infants". International Urology and Nephrology. 2024. doi
10. "Minimizing opioids after gender-affirming orchiectomy: a multimodal pain pathway". The Canadian Journal of Urology. 2023. PubMed
11. "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
12. "Pediatric cystectomy for refractory cystitis post-bone marrow transplant in dyskeratosis congenita: a case report". Urology Case Reports. 2022. doi
13. "Utilizing eye tracking to assess electronic health record use by pharmacists in the intensive care unit". American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 2022. doi
14. "Automated digital TIL analysis (ADTA) adds prognostic value to standard assessment of depth and ulceration in primary melanoma". Scientific Reports. 2021. doi
15. "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
16. "Mapping cortical integration of sensory and affective pain pathways". Current Biology. 2020. doi
17. "A deep learning approach for real-time detection of sleep spindles". Journal of Neural Engineering. 2019. doi
18. "A novel neuromodulation strategy to enhance the prefrontal control to treat pain". Molecular Pain. 2019. doi
19. "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
20. "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 Systems (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