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Alan Robinson, M.D. is Vice Provost of Medical Sciences and Executive Associate Dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where he has focused on maintaining a high quality of research and medical education in the UCLA Medical Enterprise. Robinson has championed the use of multi-media technologies in medical education and research, and has helped make the entire first two-year curriculum available to students on the web. A new curriculum emphasizes interdisciplinary basic science education, required clinical clerkships with specifically identified goals, and an innovative fourth-year of "colleges" to better mentor students for lifelong careers. The School of Medicine consistently ranks in the top five medical schools in total research funding, and in the top 10 in NIH funding, which has nearly doubled to $220 million year during Robinson′s tenure. Robinson′s individual research activities include 25 years of funding from the NIH, an extensive publication record in endocrinology and many chapters in the standard textbooks of endocrinology and internal medicine.