Credentials, Practice, Licensure and Academic History

CURRENT PRACTICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES Infectious Diseases, Private Practice Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach/Irvine, California; 4/27/1998—present Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Hospital Epidemiology Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach/Irvine, California 3/1/2009--present Member of the Quality Improvement Committee of the Board Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach/Irvine, California 10/1/2009--present Member of the Continuing Medical Education Committee Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach/Irvine, California 10/1/2008--present Member of the Department of Medicine Core Committee Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach/Irvine, California 10/1/2008--present PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Previous Committee Appointments Chairman of Infection Prevention Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach, California 2004--2009 Previous Clinical Practice and Academic Appointment Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease Michigan State University--Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies 1000 Oakland Drive, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 July 10, 1995--April 24, 1998 EDUCATION Infectious Disease Fellowship USC+Los Angeles County Medical Center  1200 North State Street, Room 6442 Los Angeles, California 90033 July 1, 1993--June 30, 1995  Internal Medicine Internship and Residency Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 1000 West Carson Street, Bin 400 Torrance, California 90509 June 24, 1990--June 30, 1993 Medical School                      Michigan State University--College of Human Medicine A254 Life Sciences Building East Lansing, Michigan 48824  September 1985--March 1990 Degree--M.D. (March 16, 1990) Graduate School Michigan State University--Microbiology and Public Health East Lansing, Michigan 48824 September 1986--March 1990 Areas of Concentration:  Immunology of Malaria Undergraduate Alma College Alma, Michigan 48801 September 1980--April 1985 Majors--Biology and Psychology Degree--Bachelor of Science (April 1985) BOARD CERTIFICATION National Board of Medical Examiners, 1991 American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), 1993--2013 ABIM Certified Diplomate in Infectious Disease, 1996--2016 PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIETY AFFILIATIONS American College of Physicians, Fellow 1998--present American College of Physicians, Member 1996--1998 Infectious Disease Association of California, 1998--present American Society of Microbiology, 1994--present Infectious Disease Society of America, 1994--present  Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, 1994--present

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PRESENTATIONS AT RESEARCH MEETINGS Variations in Medical School Blood and Body Fluid Exposure Protocols: a comparison study and proposal for an ideal protocol. Huggett S, Sward N, Donovan M, Grace E, Robertson A, Robinson PA.  Presented at the American Medical Student Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 16, 1996 Rapid mycologic response in AIDS-Associated cryptococcal meningitis results in improved survival.  Robinson PA, Leal MAE, Holtom PD, Jones BE, Evans S, Bauer M, Leedom JM, Larsen, RA.  Poster presented at American Society of Microbiology, May 25, 1995, Washington D.C. Malaria Crisis Form Factor in Nigerian Serum.  Robinson PA and Jensen JB.  Parasitology Research Group Meeting, Michigan State University, December 19, 1987. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND INTERESTS Linezolid in the Treatment of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcal Infections: a double blind trail comparing 600mg Linezolid every 12 hours with 200mg Linezolid every 12 hours.  Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian and Pharmacia & Upjohn, Inc. Protocol M/1260/0054, January 1999--present ViraceptTM (nelfinavir mesylate, AG1343) Expanded Access Program Protocol AG1343-515.  Michigan State University--Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Infectious Disease Clinic, IRB#BMH1091, January 1997-April 1997. Clinical Research Fellow under Robert Larsen, LAC+USC Medical Center, Department of Infectious Disease.  1993-1995.  Studied Cryptococcus neoformans meningitis in HIV infected patients. Research Fellow under Stephen Puentes, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Division of Infectious Diseases.  Spring 1990.  Separated and analyzed Candida albicans membrane proteins using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and western blotting techniques. Graduate Research Assistant under James B. Jensen, Michigan State University, Department of Microbiology.  1986-1988.  Collected and analyzed West African serum samples for immunoglobulin and other factors associated with Plasmodium falciparum immunity. Graduate Research Assistant under James Harkema, Michigan State University, Department of Surgery.  1985-1986.  Studied the relationship between Escherichia coli sepsis and protein metabolism. FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Infectious Disease Fellowship, USC+LAC Medical Center, Department of Infectious Disease, Los Angeles, California, July 1993-June 1995. Research Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Research and Education Institute, Inc., Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, April-June, 1990. Title VI National Resource Fellowship in African Language and Area Studies, Michigan State University, 1986-1988. National Institutes of Health, Biomedical Student Research Fellowship, Michigan State University, June 1987--September 1987. American Academy of Allergy and Immunology Summer Fellowships, Michigan State University, June 1987--September 1987 and in June 1988--September 1988. BIBLIOGRAPHY Impact of the Use of Procalcitonin Assay in Hospitalized Adult Patients with Pneumonia at a Community Acute Care Hospital; Janet L. Kook, Stephanie R. Chao, Jennifer Le and Philip A. Robinson; Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 33, No. 4, Special Topic Issue: Antimicrobial Stewardship, April 2012, pp. 424-426 N.B. Rettenmaier, H.D. Epstein, P.A. Robinson, B.H. Goldstein.  A Case Report:  Cerebral nocardia masquerading as metastatic CNS disease in an endometrial cancer patient.  Eur J Gynaecol Oncololgy, 2009;30(1):90-2 John P. Micha, Bram H. Goldstein, Philip A. Robinson, Mark A Rettenmaier, John V. Brown.  A Case Report:  Abdominal/pelvic Coccidioidomycosis.  Gynecologic Oncology, 2005, 96:256-258. Robinson, P.A., et al. Early Mycological Treatment Failure in AIDS-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis.  Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1999; 28:82-92.