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Mark L. Robbins, Ph.D.
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 markrobb@uri.edu

Mark L. Robbins, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department (URI Psychology website) and at the Cancer Prevention Research Center (CPRC) at the University of Rhode Island. He earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University in 1993. He completed a pre-doctoral clinical internship with a specialty in Behavioral Medicine at Brown University, a clinical postdoctoral fellowship in Preventive and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and a research postdoctoral fellowship at the CPRC. Dr. Robbins has fourteen years of clinical and research experience in both biomedical and mental health settings with a variety of medical and psychiatric populations. Areas of focus have included cancer and CHD risk factor reduction, psycho-oncology, and anxiety disorders. His work at UMASS Medical Center included two years as a clinical consultant in medical oncology and for the bone marrow transplant unit.

Since joining the staff at the CPRC in 1996, he has taken a disease management approach to applying the Transtheoretical Model of behavior change (TTM) to organ donation and transplantation. Dr. Robbins has been principal investigator on a project to apply the Transtheoretical Model to increase family consent for cadaveric organ donation. This project involves the development of brief reliable measures that assess model constructs for donation consent. Interventions in development include a training curriculum utilizing a counseling protocol format to help clinical coordinators to apply stage-matched interventions with family members. Other related projects include a population-based approach to applying the TTM to increase donation intentions in adult and college student populations and for professional education. In addition to his work as an investigator in organ donation and transplantation, Dr. Robbins is also collaborating on applications of the TTM to stress management and multiple risk factor interventions for cancer prevention.

Dr. Robbins teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine.  He currently supervises psychology department students in a clinical practicum that emphasizes a cognitive behavioral framework and health promotion..