Bio
Robin P. Blackstone, MD, FACS, FASMBS is a surgeon, executive, and author whose career spans the operating room, the boardroom, and now the front lines of healthcare reform.
The first woman to serve as President of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, she held the Ira A. Fulton Endowed Chair at Banner Health, served as SVP of Clinical and Medical Affairs at Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson), and chaired the J&J Institute’s Global Surgery Advisory Board across 140 countries. She is a Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Arizona and a peer reviewer for JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine.
She holds advanced credentials in artificial intelligence from Oxford’s Saïd Business School, and certifications from MIT, Harvard Business School, and the Financial Times Board Diploma Programme.
She is the author of Doctor AI: Reimagining Healthcare, Rebuilding Trust, Delivering Health 4.0.
