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Emeritus professor Eugene Robin dies at 80  

Eugene D. Robin, MD, a Stanford School of Medicine professor emeritus (pulmonary and critical care medicine), died of cancer Wednesday, March 8, in Eureka, Calif. He was 80.

"Gene was an international leader in pulmonary medicine and basic biology," said Thomas Raffin, MD, professor and chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine. "He was a sought-after visiting professor and well-known for his excellence as a clinician, teacher and scientist. He was a superb debater and had a wonderful sense of humor."

A longtime colleague, James Theodore, MD, professor of medicine, said, "Dr. Robin was well-known as a leading scientist in a number of areas, including acid-base metabolism, comparative physiology and pulmonary physiology."

Robin obtained his MD in 1951 from George Washington University. He served as associate director of the cardiovascular program at Brigham Hospital in Boston. He was on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine from 1959 until 1970, when he joined Stanford as a professor of medicine and of physiology. An expert in heart and lung diseases, he became part of a medical school research team studying distribution patterns of blood and air flow in the lungs, with the goal of understanding and treating lung disease in heart patients and heart disease in patients with acute respiratory distress. He served on many National Institutes of Health committees and was awarded numerous NIH research grants.

He supervised Stanford's respiratory function laboratory and the pulmonary physiology program. Robin served as acting chair of the Department of Medicine for two years from 1971 to 1973 and as acting chair of the Department of Physiology in 1977. He won four Kaiser Awards for Excellence in two areas, basic science teaching and clinical teaching.

In 1988 Robin retired and moved to Humboldt County. He is survived by his wife, Jane, of Trinidad, Calif.; four sons; two daughters; a sister; and 14 grandchildren. SR

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