Robin Ortiz

Robin Ortiz, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Keywords
adverse childhood experiences, cardiovascular health, caregiver-child dyad, structural adversity, lifecourse, neuro-endocrine mechanisms
Summary

My research is inspired by my practice of medicine holding triple board certification in internal medicine, pediatrics, and lifestyle medicine. I am the Principal Investigator and founder of the Caregiver Heart Health research clinic and program, which aims to re-imagine healthcare through an intergenerational and relational health framework. Our studies aim to establish an empirical basis for the therapeutic potential of the caregiver-child dyad that can be harnessed to sustainably drive change in cardiovascular health at the level adults while laying the foundation for the cardiovascular health trajectory of children.

This research program and my scope of work have three overarching aims that extend well beyond the caregiver-child context to:

  1. Understand the neuro-endocrine-immune mechanisms underpinning the association between stress physiology and cardiometabolic disease risk,
  2. Identify and promote approaches to the attainment of optimized intergenerational cardiovascular health for chronic disease prevention, and,
  3. Contextualize lived individual, dyadic, and family-level experiences of relational health within structural, community and environmental context toward population-level policy and practice change.

In addition to publishing our team’s work in Health Affairs, Clinical Epigenetics, and the JAMA journal network, I have been honored to be named a 40 Under 40 Leader in Health (by NMQF), a Future Leader Advancing Research in Endocrinology by the Endocrine Society, and both a New Century and, most recently, RAPID (Research in Academic Pediatrics Investigator Development) Scholar by the Academic Pediatric Association. My work to date has received grant funding from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia PolicyLab, the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the National Science Foundation, the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society, the Johns Hopkins Primary Care Consortium and Physician Scientist Training Program, and most recently, the American Heart Association and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Awardee).

Importantly, my research is constantly inspired by patient care. I maintain clinical practice, currently at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, with children and adults in the context of families, utilizing additional training in lifestyle medicine, mindfulness, and plant-based nutrition.

 

Academic office

180 Madison Ave.

7th Floor

New York, NY 10016

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Liu, Olivia C; Ortiz, Robin; Baidal, Jennifer Woo; Pierce, Kristyn A; Perrin, Eliana M; Duh-Leong, Carol

American journal of preventive medicine. 2025 May 06; 107647

Ortiz, Robin; McMacken, Michelle; Massar, Rachel; Albert, Stephanie L

American journal of lifestyle medicine. 2025 Apr 13; 15598276251331824

O'Neill, Kimberly A; Charvet, Leigh; George, Allan; Waltz, Michael; Casper, T Charles; Benson, Leslie; Gorman, Mark; Mar, Soe; Ness, Jayne; Schreiner, Teri; Waubant, Emmanuelle; Weinstock-Guttman, Bianca; Wheeler, Yolanda; Ortiz, Robin; Krupp, Lauren B; ,

Multiple sclerosis and related disorders. 2025 Apr 03; 98:106424

Duh-Leong, Carol; Messito, Mary Jo; Kim, Leah; Cohen, David I; Betancourt, Jeanette; Ortiz, Robin; Astudillo, Jessica; Nagpal, Nikita; Katzow, Michelle W; Gross, Rachel S

Academic pediatrics. 2025 Mar; 25(2):102582

Nita, Abigail; Ortiz, Robin; Chen, Sabrina; Chicas, Vanessa E.; Schoenthaler, Antoinette; Pina, Paulo; Gross, Rachel S.; Duh-Leong, Carol

Clinical pediatrics. 2025 Jan 01; ?-?

Herrera, Teresa; Seok, Eunsil; Cowell, Whitney; Brown, Eric; Magzamen, Sheryl; Ako, Ako Adams; Wright, Rosalind J; Trasande, Leonardo; Ortiz, Robin; Stroustrup, Annemarie; Ghassabian, Akhgar

Journal of epidemiology & community health. 2024 Dec 10; 79(1):12-18

Fang, Elisa; Nita, Abigail L; Duh-Leong, Carol; Gross, Rachel S; Schoenthaler, Antoinette; Pina, Paulo; Ortiz, Robin

American journal of lifestyle medicine. 2024 Sep 20; 15598276241285807

Ortiz, Robin; Massar, Rachel E; McMacken, Michelle; Albert, Stephanie L

Appetite. 2024 Jul 01; 198:107341