Dr. Luther K. Robinson

NOFAS is pleased to honor Dr. Luther Robinson for his invaluable contribution to FASD diagnosis and research.

Luther K Robinson, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the State University of New York School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He is Director of Dysmorphology and Clinical Genetics in the Division of Genetics of the Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo at Kaleida Health. Dr Robinson graduated from Oberlin College and earned his medical degree at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Following a four-year commitment in the US Public Health Service, Dr Robinson undertook postgraduate training in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California at San Diego. There he met Kenneth Lyons Jones, MD who would become his mentor in Dysmorphology (altered structural development). Dr. Robinson became interested in teratogens (environmental agents that cause birth defects), such as alcohol, and how exposures to these agents disturb normal embryonic and fetal development.

Dr Robinson is the former medical director of the New York Pregnancy Risk Network, a program that provides information concerning exposures in pregnancy to pregnant women and their physicians. Dr. Robinson was an inaugural member of the National Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects (NTFFASE) and is involved in studies on fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in the United States, Russia, Europe, and South Africa.

Dr. Robinson has a longstanding commitment to providing medical services to under-served groups and served as the medical director of the Buffalo Parents and Children Together (PACT) program that provides medical care to children and families impacted by maternal substance abuse. Dr. Robinson is certified in Clinical Genetics by the American Board of Medical Genetics. NOFAS has worked with Dr. Robinson on several projects, and he has been instrumental in encouraging a local FASD group, led by Susan Rose to become a NOFAS Affiliate in New York. For all of his contributions and dedication to the field, NOFAS salutes Dr. Robinson.