Robin McKinney received his medical degree from St. George's Univeristy in Grenada. He went on to complete a residency in Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn and a fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit. He has been an attending physician in department of pediatric critical care medicine at Hasbro Children's Hospital since 2015. In addition to his work in the pediatric intensive care unit he is also the director of the outpatient ventilator program caring for medically complex patients who are technology dependent at home.
His research focuses on long term outcomes and ventilator management of children with severe broncho-pulmonary dysplasia.
| Munoz-Blanco S, Makker K, McKinney RL, Bamat NA, Guaman MC, Traube C, BPD Collaborative. "Clinician knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of delirium in patients with grade 3 bronchopulmonary dysplasia: A national survey." Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, vol. 46, no. 2, 2026, pp. 206-210. |
| Vyas-Read S, Bhombal S, Siddaiah R, Cua CL, Buddhavarapu A, McKinney RL, Levy PT, Hauck AL, Porta NFM, Gibbs KA, Lingappan K, Douglass MS, Austin ED, Abman SH, Day RW. "Echocardiographic Detection of Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricular Failure in Infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: A Survey of the BPD Collaborative." Children, vol. 13, no. 5, 2026. |
| Agarwal A, Manimtim WM, Alexiou S, Abman SH, Akangire G, Aoyama BC, Austin ED, Baker CD, Bansal M, Bauer SE, Cristea AI, Dawson SK, Fierro JL, Hayden LP, Henningfeld JK, Kaslow JA, Lai KV, Levin JC, McKinney RL, Miller AN, Nelin LD, Popova AP, Siddaiah R, Tracy MC, Villafranco NM, McGrath-Morrow SA, Collaco JM. "Factors associated with liberation from home mechanical ventilation and tracheostomy decannulation in infants and children with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia." Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, vol. 46, no. 2, 2026, pp. 175-181. |
| Cohen PD, Boss RD, McKinney RL, Kudchadkar SR. "Non-Emergent Neonatal ICU-to-PICU Transfers in the United States: Cross-Sectional Survey of Neonatologists and Pediatric Intensivists." Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, vol. 27, no. 5, 2026, pp. 568-574. |
| McKinney RL, Popova AP, Guaman MC, Kielt MJ, Moore PE, McGrath-Morrow SA, Collaco JM, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Collaborative. "Common Severity-Based Definitions of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Are not Associated With Outpatient Morbidities." Pediatric pulmonology, vol. 60, no. 12, 2025, pp. e71415. |
| Crane MJ, McKinney RL, Jordon ARD, Eberson CP, Jamieson AM. "Comparative Analysis of Inflammatory Response in Surgical Wound Drainage Fluid in Scoliosis Surgery: A Study of Neuromuscular vs. Idiopathic Patients." Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society, vol. 33, no. 4, 2025, pp. e70076. |
| McKinney RL, Collaco JM, Agarwal A, Baker CD, Bansal M, Douglass M, Griffiths PS, Hannan KE, Keszler M, Kielt MJ, Manimtim W, Morrow SM, Miller A, Ransom MA, Siddaiah R, Sharma AM, Tanzer J, Eldredge LC, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Collaborative. "Increased Mean Airway Pressure Is Associated With Successful Transition to a Portable Home Ventilator in Patients With Grade 3 Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia." Pediatric pulmonology, vol. 60, no. 12, 2025, pp. e70403. |
| Akangire GG, Manimtim W, Agarwal A, Alexiou S, Aoyama BC, Austin ED, Bansal M, Fierro JL, Hayden LP, Kaslow JA, Lai KV, Levin JC, Miller AN, Rice JL, Tracy MC, Baker CD, Bauer SE, Cristea AI, Dawson SK, Eldredge L, Henningfeld JK, McKinney RL, Siddaiah R, Villafranco NM, Abman SH, McGrath-Morrow SA, Collaco JM. "Outcomes of infants and children with bronchopulmonary dysplasia-associated pulmonary hypertension who required home ventilation." Pediatric Research, vol. 97, no. 1, 2025, pp. 387-394. |
| Bansal M, Manimtim WM, Agarwal A, Alexiou S, Rice JL, Nelin L, Miller AN, Levin JC, Lai K, Kaslow JA, Hayden LP, Fierro JL, Bhandari A, Austin ED, Aoyama B, Akangire G, Villafranco N, Stephenson N, Siddaiah R, McKinney RL, House MA, Baker CD, Abman SH, McGrath-Morrow SA, Collaco JM. "Outcomes of Ventilator-Dependent Children With Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and Tracheobronchomalacia." Pediatric pulmonology, vol. 60, no. 4, 2025, pp. e71100. |
| Moore PE, Hayden LP, Villafranco NM, Toprak D, Rice JL, Rhein LM, Popova AP, McKinney RL, Manimtim WM, Levin JC, Lai KV, Gage SC, Bansal M, Baker CD, Austin ED, Agarwal A, McGrath-Morrow SA, Collaco JM. "Outpatient clinical care for bronchopulmonary dysplasia: A survey of the BPD collaborative." Pediatric pulmonology, vol. 60, no. 1, 2025, pp. e27296. |
| Barbosa da Silva E, Crane MJ, Liu L, Gelsinger DJ, Jordon ARD, Le P, Haggett JG, Myers SA, McKinney RL, Eberson CP, Jamieson AM, O'Donoghue AJ. "The impact of pH on proteolytic activity in wound fluid: Implications for acid therapy." Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 301, no. 10, 2025, pp. 110723. |
| Agarwal A, McKinney RL, Baker CD, Nelin LD, Abman SH, BPD Collaborative. "Adapting to changing ventilator access: Impact on management of severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia in children." Pediatric pulmonology, vol. 59, no. 6, 2024, pp. 1803-1806. |
| McKinney RL, Wallström L, Courtney SE, Sindelar R. "Novel forms of ventilation in neonates: Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist and proportional assist ventilation." Seminars in Perinatology, vol. 48, no. 2, 2024, pp. 151889. |
| Kielt MJ, Hatch LD 3rd, Levin JC, Napolitano N, Abman SH, Baker CD, Eldredge LC, Collaco JM, McGrath-Morrow SA, Rose RS, Lai K, Keszler M, Sindelar R, Nelin LD, McKinney RL, BPD Collaborative. "Classifying multicenter approaches to invasive mechanical ventilation for infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia using hierarchical clustering analysis." Pediatric pulmonology, vol. 58, no. 8, 2023, pp. 2323-2332. |
| Zhang H, McKinney RL. "Editorial: Respiratory support strategies in the prevention and treatment of BPD: many questions, few answers." Frontiers in Pediatrics, vol. 11, 2023, pp. 1233810. |
| Sindelar R, McKinney RL, Wallström L, Keszler M. "Diaphragm electrical activity target during NAVA: One size may not fit all." Pediatric pulmonology, vol. 57, no. 5, 2022, pp. 1361-1362. |
| McKinney RL, Napolitano N, Levin JJ, Kielt MJ, Abman SH, Guaman MC, Rose RS, Courtney SE, Matlock D, Agarwal A, Leeman KT, Sanlorenzo LA, Sindelar R, Collaco JM, Baker CD, Hannan KE, Douglass M, Eldredge LC, Lai K, McGrath-Morrow SA, Tracy MC, Truog W, Lewis T, Murillo AL, Keszler M, BPD Collaborative. "Ventilatory Strategies in Infants with Established Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: A Multicenter Point Prevalence Study." The Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 242, 2022, pp. 248-252.e1. |
| McKinney RL, Keszler M. "Letter to the Editor: The tidal volume reported is not necessarily what it appears to be." Early Human Development, vol. 163, 2021, pp. 105463. |
| Lewis T, Truog W, Nelin L, Napolitano N, McKinney RL. "Pharmacoepidemiology of Drug Exposure in Intubated and Non-Intubated Preterm Infants With Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia." Frontiers in Pharmacology, vol. 12, 2021, pp. 695270. |
| Sindelar R, McKinney RL, Wallström L, Keszler M. "Proportional assist and neurally adjusted ventilation: Clinical knowledge and future trials in newborn infants." Pediatric Pulmonology, vol. 56, no. 7, 2021, pp. 1841-1849. |
| McKinney RL, Schmidhoefer JJ, Balasco AL, Machan JT, Hirway P, Keszler M. "Severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia: outcomes before and after the implementation of an inpatient multidisciplinary team." Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, vol. 41, no. 3, 2021, pp. 544-550. |
| Raimondo E, McKinney R, Mason K, Bartolini L. "Teaching Video Neuroimages: Ictal Unilateral Eye Blinking in Temporal Lobe Seizures: An Illustrative Video Case." Neurology, vol. 96, no. 7, 2021, pp. e1094-e1095. |
| McKinney RL, Keszler M, Truog WE, Norberg M, Sindelar R, Wallström L, Schulman B, Gien J, Abman SH, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Collaborative. "Multicenter Experience with Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist in Infants with Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia." American journal of perinatology, vol. 38, no. S 01, 2020, pp. e162-e166. |
| McKinney RL, Shukla K, Daigle K, Zeigler J, Muller M, Keszler M. "The BIT:S (Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Interdisciplinary Team: Severe) Initiative at Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island." Rhode Island medical journal (2013), vol. 102, no. 3, 2019, pp. 22-25. |
| Abman SH, Collaco JM, Shepherd EG, Keszler M, Cuevas-Guaman M, Welty SE, Truog WE, McGrath-Morrow SA, Moore PE, Rhein LM, Kirpalani H, Zhang H, Gratny LL, Lynch SK, Curtiss J, Stonestreet BS, McKinney RL, Dysart KC, Gien J, Baker CD, Donohue PK, Austin E, Fike C, Nelin LD, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Collaborative. "Interdisciplinary Care of Children with Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia." The Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 181, 2017, pp. 12-28.e1. |
| Ben-Gary H1, McKinney RL, Rosengart T, Lesser ML, Crystal RG. "Systemic interleukin-6 responses following administration of adenovirus gene transfer vectors to humans by different routes." molecular therapy, vol. 6, no. 2, 2002, pp. 287-97. |
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | MD | Saint Georges University |
| 2002 | BS | Bates College |
| Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship | Children's Hospital of Michigan, Pediatric Critical Care | 2012-2015 | |
| Residency | suny downstate, Pediatrics | 2009-2012 |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Keszler, Martin | Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics |
Hasbro Children's Hospital
Women and Infants Hospital
BPD Collaborative
SPR
SCCM
| Pediatric Critical Care Medicine | American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care | 2016-2026 | |
| MD | Rhode Island Board of Medical Licensure & Discipline | 2015-2019 | |
| Board Certified Pediatrician | American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatrics | 2012-2019 |
| Associate Professor of Pediatrics. 2022-Present |
| Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. 2015-2022 |
