An accomplished health policy/public affairs expert with over 40 years’ experience working in Washington, DC, Robin has a lot to say about health care. Previously, she ran her own agency and created the award-winning Disruptive Women in Health Care blog.

She served as the director of the health policy for the National Consumers League, was selected as a Presidential Management Intern and worked in the Office of Legislation and Policy in the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (now the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission) in addition to serving in the Office of Congressman James J. Florio (D-NJ).

She was a senior policy analyst at George Washington University’s National Health Policy Forum and served on the following boards: the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (founded by Dr. Oliver Sacks); AcademyHealth’s Translation and Dissemination Institute Advisory Committee; Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Health Policy; and Physician-Parent Caregivers.

Robin was a contributor to The Hill newspaper and served as strategic advisor for the Foundation for Art and Healing, which focused on public health issues related to loneliness and social isolation.

She was named to the National Alzheimer’s Scientific, Patient and Caregiver Advisory Council of the PCORI-funded Alzheimer’s & Dementia Patient/Caregiver-Powered Research Network (AD-PCPRN) and was named a Woman of Impact in December 2015.

Robin served as the first board chair of the Boulanger Initiative and currently serves on the board of Chamber Music Maryland and the Lewy Body Dementia Resource Center.

She previously created and ran Strongin Salon in her Georgetown DC art gallery. She currently serves as Director of Art Initiatives for Ronewa Art Projects, a Berlin-based gallery. Robin is a self-described ambassador for the health benefits of music and the arts.