Robert Cronin, MD

About Me

In my career, I get to combine three passions of my life, that of taking care of people’s health as a doctor, teaching as a mentor and educator, and advancing the science of medicine as a researcher. I’m a general internal medicine and pediatric doctor, meaning I take care of people from shortly after their birth until the end of their life. I also specialize in delivering primary care to individuals with sickle cell disease, a genetic disease that affects hemoglobin levels in the blood and causes many health problems. In this population of patients, I tend to focus on leveraging the chronic care model and improving care during the transition period from adolescence into adulthood.

Apart from clinical activities, I’m an NIH-funded principal investigator on multiple research studies, have published peer-reviewed manuscripts, presented at numerous local and national conferences, and written book chapters. My research interests include clinical informatics, sickle cell disease, economic evaluations, secondary use of electronic health records and personal health informatics. I also have methodological expertise in qualitative and quantitative methods, community-engaged research, and clinical trials. In addition, I have an interest in the design and evaluation of electronic surveys, empowering individuals with health care, health care information technology disparities, secondary use of electronic health records to develop contemporaneous cohorts to follow the clinic history of disease, and transitional care of adolescents and young adults with chronic diseases from pediatric to adult-centered care using the chronic care model. To this end, I helped develop the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program, which is working to develop one of the most diverse health databases in history, and designed the surveys the program gave to participants.

Highlights

• Primary investigator (PI) of NIH-funded grants
• Published more than 35 peer-reviewed manuscripts, including on the topic of informatics in medicine
• Accepted into American Society of Hematology (ASH) Clinical Research Training Institute (CRTI), a unique, yearlong education and mentoring program for hematology fellows and junior faculty at academic medical centers. The goal of the program is to produce leaders armed with ideas for clinical hematology research and the tools and resources to make their ideas a reality.
• Finalist in paper competition at our annual informatics meeting
• Board certified in clinical informatics (ABPM)

Procedures and Conditions I Treat

• Diabetes Mellitus
• Hypertension
• Primary Care
• Anemia, Sickle Cell
• Internal Medicine
• Preventive Medicine
• Chronic Disease
• Musculoskeletal Pain
• Holistic Health
• Acute Disease