A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Robbins received her MD from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, did her transitional year within the University of Pennsylvania system and completed her residency in ophthalmology at Hahnemann University Hospital.
She is an undergraduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts; there she first experienced working with pediatric populations while gathering field data in Nigeria, West Africa for a study she later authored dealing with infant malnutrition in that country’s rural population. Following her undergraduate studies, she worked in molecular biology research at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia.

Dr Robbins completed a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology at UCSD/ Naval Medical Center in San Diego, working with Dr. David Granet at the Abraham Ratner Children’s Eye Center and Dr. Scott McClatchey at the Balboa Naval Medical Center.

She had the distinction in the Spring of 2004 to be the youngest physician to lead a workshop at the national pediatric ophthalmology meeting. Her workshop dealt with emerging technology in the field of ophthalmology. Dr. Robbins presented information at the 2003 meeting for the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus in Hawaii, on the relationship of convergence insufficiency and fusional amplitudes. She also delivered a paper examining the clinical results of inferior oblique Z myotomy procedures at the European Strabismological Association in Bergen, Norway in June 2003. She coauthored chapters on “Vision Testing in the Pediatric Population” for an edition of Ophthalmology Clinics of North America, 2003 and on “Conjunctiva” for the upcoming edition of Harley’s Pediatric Ophthalmology. Her current research is involving her with an ongoing UCSD/Shiley school vision-screening program of an exceptionally large pediatric population, with the aim of assessing the cognitive and motor changes accompanying vision correction.

Her practice encompasses pediatric patients with vision and ocular complaints, amblyopia, strabismus, retinopathy of prematurity, learning disabilities, nasolacrimal tear duct disorders, genetic ocular disorders, systemic diseases affecting the eyes, pediatric cataracts including intraocular lens placement/management, and pediatric glaucoma. Her adult practice includes patients with double vision, strabismus and visual strain complaints.

She is proud to be continuing on at Shiley as an Associate Physician – “the originality and innovation here is very dynamic, like Paris of the 20’s” and particularly excited to be at the Ratner Children’s Eye Center where she experiences daily the “challenge and fun of treating children”.