About Dr. Robinson
I have been in the private practice of psychiatry in Morristown for thirty years. Following my graduation from Harvard in 1975, and my graduation from medical school at Johns Hopkins in 1979, I planned to pursue a career in internal medicine. During my medical internship at the Baylor College of Medicine hospitals at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, I reconsidered my career path, and realized that the field of psychiatry offered the opportunity to help people deal with the challenges of depression and anxiety -- which were frequently underlying factors in their physical illnesses. I relocated to Washington, D.C. and entered the psychiatric residency program at the George Washington University Medical Center, at the dawn of a new era of psychopharmacological treatment.
In 1983, following my final year at George Washington as Chief Resident in the outpatient department, I moved to New York and spent the next two years as a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, working with patients with chronic illnesses (kidney disease and hemophilia) and providing psychiatric consultation to patients with other medical illnesses. Although working in an academic medical center was fascinating, I realized that my interests were more suited to patient care. In 1986, following a year in private practice in Metuchen, I joined the staff at Carrier Clinic in Belle Mead, New Jersey, where I was the Clinical Director of an inpatient unit and performed ECT (electroconvulsive therapy). In 1993, I established my private practice of psychiatry in Morristown. In 2018, I attended the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Visiting Fellowship at the Duke University School of Medicine, and I have been treating patients with TMS since then.
In addition to my private practice, I am a member of the medical staff at Morristown Medical Center, where I am the Vice-Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and serve on the Medical Staff Credentials Committee. I am board certified in general psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and I am a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. I am licensed to practice in New Jersey and New York.