astronomy

Reid Robison

Reid Robison is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Reid Robison rather than just read about it. In short: Reid Robison (born September 1976 in Illinois) is an American board-certified psychiatrist known primarily for his work with psychedelic medicines. As an early adopter and researcher of the use of ketamine in psychiatry, Robison has made significant contributions to ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) and other treatment modalities using ketamine for mental health conditions.

Key takeaways

Reid Robison belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Reid Robison to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Reid Robison from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Reid Robison (born September 1976 in Illinois) is an American board-certified psychiatrist known primarily for his work with psychedelic medicines. As an early adopter and researcher of the use of ketamine in psychiatry, Robison has made significant contributions to ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) and other treatment modalities using ketamine for mental health conditions. He previously served as coordinating investigator for a study on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for eating disorders, sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), and he continues to lead research and psychiatric clinical trials involving psychedelics. To date, Robison has guided thousands of ketamine-assisted therapy sessions and Spravato dosing sessions. He currently serves as Medical Director of Center for Change, an eating disorder treatment center in Utah, and Chief Clinical Officer of Numinus, a Vancouver-based mental health company focused on psychedelic research and treatments. Robison is an adjunct professor at both the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.

Education and early life Robison was born in 1976 near Chicago and grew up living in Toronto, Canada. He returned to the United States for college and received a B.S. in Neuroscience from Brigham Young University, in 2001, after which he attended the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. Upon earning a dual M.D./M.B.A in 2005, he completed psychiatry residency training at the University of Utah, followed by fellowship training in genetics and bioinformatics at the University of Utah.

Career and research After his fellowship, Robison held a faculty position at the University of Utah School of Medicine from 2009 to 2011. Here, he served as the Associate Director of the Mood Disorders Clinic and co-directed the Psychiatric Molecular Genetics lab where he focused his research primarily on the genetic associations of autism, and also contributed to the discovery of Ogden Syndrome, a rare disease found using next-generation sequencing technology. During his time as faculty within the Department of Psychiatry he also led global health initiatives and guided trainees during trips to Haiti, Ghana and refugee camps along the Thai/Burma border. Early in his career, Robison founded the Polizzi Foundation, a free clinic based in Salt Lake City offering mental health services to the uninsured. He also co-founded Clinical Methods, a center for clinical trials, with a Clark W Johnson MD, his medical school colleague and business partner. Clinical Methods was acquired by CRI-Lifetree in 2012 and later PRA Health Sciences. Robison has also been closely involved with Intermountain Healthcare, the largest healthcare provider in the mountain west region of the United States. Robison set up the Consult-Liaison Service at Intermountain Medical Center, Intermountain’s flagship hospital, to provide psychiatric consults to the emergency department and medical floors. After conducting his first research study of ketamine in 2011, he went on to create a ketamine program for treatment-resistant depression at Intermountain’s IV Therapy Center. In 2012, he obtained a grant to study ketamine for depression from the Intermountain Research & Medical Foundation. In 2012, Robison and computational biologist Kai Wang co-founded Tute Genomics, a personalized medicine software company which sought to increase practice of genomic medicine. In 2016, Tute Genomics was acquired by PierianDx. Robison currently sits on the board of directors. Robison is recognized for speeding up genomic data transfer and analysis through the use of Google Fiber. Later, Robison and a colleague co-founded Cedar Psychiatry, a network of outpatient mental health clinics offering ketamine therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), medication management, and psychotherapy, and Cedar Clinical Research in 2018. At Cedar Clinical Research, Robison led the Utah site for the pivotal IV ketamine study of treatment-resistant depression by Janssen, leading up to the company’s FDA-approval of Spravato (esketamine) via breakthrough therapy designation in 2019. After the companies were acquired in 2020, by Novamind, a Canadian company endeavoring to bring psychedelic medicine into the mental health field, Robison was appointed as the Chief Medical Officer. Upon the acquisition of Novamind by Numinus, another Canadian-based company with expertise in psychedelic medicine, Robison became the Chief Clinical Officer of Numinus. In this role, Robison continues to oversee the ketamine therapy practice at Cedar Psychiatry for treating depression, PTSD, eating disorders, OCD and other mental health conditions. Robison also continues in his as Medical Director of Center for Change, an eating disorder treatment center in Utah.

Robison also co-founded Inner Space Research, a psychiatry-focused clinical research center in Orem, Utah, where he serves as Chief Medical Officer.

Awards and recognition In 2014, Robison was named one of the Utah Venture Entrepreneur Forum peak 100 entrepreneurs of the year. In 2015, Robison was named one of the top 40 healthcare transformers of the year, In 2020, Robison was named Best Psychiatrist in Utah.

Yoga Robison is a certified Yoga instructor and completed his training under Sri Dharma Mittra in New York City. He often speaks and writes about yoga and mindfulness for mental health.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Reid Robison

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Reid Robison claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Reid Robison before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Reid Robison ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Reid Robison

In research: Reid Robison appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Reid Robison in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Reid Robison is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1976 births, American chief executives, American medical doctors, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Reid Robison outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Reid Robison in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Reid Robison means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Reid Robison out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Reid Robison in simple terms?

Why does Reid Robison matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Reid Robison?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Reid Robison.