Dr. Robin English Named Associate Dean
Dr. Robin English will serve as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education.
Dr. English received her medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans in 1995 and completed her pediatrics residency and was chief resident at LSU. She joined the faculty in 1999 and served as the hospitalist division chief at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans and the Pediatrics clerkship director at LSU School of Medicine for many years. In 2008, Dr. English was recruited to direct the Introductory Clinical Skills course and assist with curriculum oversight as the Director of the Clinical Sciences Curriculum. She directed a pre-clerkship curriculum revision beginning in 2012 and continues to engage frequently with faculty and students regarding the current curriculum. Dr. English was chair of the Executive Committee for the LSU Health Science Center Teaching Academy for five years and directed the Quality Enhancement Plan for LSU’s institutional accreditation in 2015. In 2016, she became the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education.
Dr. English has been an active member of the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics since 2001 and served as the Research and Scholarship Task Force co-chair for five years. She was an editorial board member of the American Academy of Pediatrics PREP program for six years, an Associate Editor of Aquifer Pediatrics cases for three years, and an Editor for Aquifer Sciences for five years.
Dr. English has won numerous teaching awards at LSU School of Medicine, including the Copping Award, the Aesculapian Society Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Humanism in Medicine Award. She is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Her educational interests include teaching clinical reasoning and the integration of basic sciences with clinical medicine.