Maisha Robinson is a neurologist and assistant professor of neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. She earned her medical degree from Tufts University and completed her residency training in neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, followed by a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She pursued a neurohospitalist fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Florida, and a postdoctoral fellowship through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program in health services and health policy research at University of California, Los Angeles, where she also earned a master’s in health policy and management.
At the Mayo Clinic in Florida, Robinson established a neuropalliative care program and she serves as the medical director of palliative medicine. The author of journal articles and book chapters, she edited a book titled “Case Studies in Neuropalliative Care.” Robinson holds several leadership positions within the American Academy of Neurology and she is a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Test Writing Committee on Hospice and Palliative Medicine.