Robinson, G(eorge) Canby (1878–1960)

US physician who assisted in the organizing of four major medical education institutions: the hospital of the Rockefeller Institute 1910–13, the medical schools of Washington University 1913–20 and Vanderbilt University 1920–28, and the joining of Cornell University Medical College to New York Hospital in 1928, where he was director until 1934. With publication of The Patient as a Person 1939, he raised the issue of medical humanism.

He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, took his MD from Johns Hopkins in 1903, and published memoirs, Adventures in Medical Education, in 1957.