Robert Greenberg
E.mail: rgreenberg45@comcast.net
Phone: (505) 792-8004
Robert E. Greenberg, M.D. is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico School of Medicine. After completing his college education at Stanford, and medical school at U. of California, San Francisco, he finished pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, and post-doctoral fellowships in endocrinology/physiology at Upstate Medical Center, State University of New York, in Syracuse and the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He was a member of the Stanford Department of Pediatrics for a decade, and then developed the pediatric program at the newly organized and constructed Charles Drew/Martin Luther King Medical Center in Watts, Los Angeles, where he was Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics from 1960-76. He then moved to the U. of New Mexico, serving as Chair of Pediatrics until 1986 when he became Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Pediatric Endocrinology program. He retired from the active faculty in 1996. He has been the recipient of numerous NIH grants, has been a member of NIH Study Sections for over 12 years, has served on NIH review committees, and has published on diverse topics, mainly focused on developmental biochemistry and endocrinology, and, more recently, child advocacy and child rights. He has lectured at multiple institutions in this and other countries. He was President of the Society for Pediatric Research, and the Western Society for Pediatric Research. He has spent sabbaticals at the Department of Biochemistry, French Atomic Energy Commission, Saclay, France, the Department of Physiology, Harvard Medical School and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health. Together with several pediatric colleagues, he organized a state-wide child advocacy organization (New Mexico Voices for Children), initially established in New Mexico in 1985, and maintained active involvement as Chair and/or Member of the Board of Directors until 2006. As Chair of the Council on Pediatric Research, American Academy of Pediatrics, he led in the development of the Center for Child Health Research, a new and independent entity supported in part by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the University of Rochester, and he served as Chair of the Center’s Board of Directors from its inception in 1999 to 2003. The Center was folded into the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2006. His wife, Margaret Greenberg, R.N., Ph.D., has joined him in international health volunteering in Cambodia, Uganda and Thailand, an activity that is ongoing. He is working with pediatric colleagues in developing the Society for Equity in Child Health, and in implementing programs related to the linkage between child health and child rights.
March 6, 2011SSRC 2012 Annual Report
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