Robin Ann Yurk, MD, MPH is a Physician | Senior Executive with 30+ years of Healthcare experience for Academic & Community Hospitals, Private Research Organization and Private companies for profit and nonprofit.  She has contributed to healthcare entrepreneur leadership as an entrepreneur CEO for MDyurk | DecisionShare, LLC with other C-suite team member roles, and as a Senior Medical Advisor for Wallcott Holdings, LLC a domestic and global healthcare infrastructure economic strategy.  She has 15 years of health system and front line physician experience from clinical practice with the HRSA BPHC Medical Center Foundations as a physician specialist. In addition, her medical training includes completion of a General Internal Medicine Fellowship from Johns Hopkins Medicine, a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, a doctor of medicine from Creighton University School of Medicine and a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Robin Ann Yurk’s leadership traits have evolved from a foundation with catholic values, a traditional career path in medicine as a physician, community involvement and private business economic entrepreneur networks. Her experiences represent diversity in geographic networks and populations which make her a valuable contribution to a team for her local, regional, national, and global perspective.   She obtained a leadership certification from Intermountain Healthcare Advanced Training Program for healthcare delivery improvement with additional training as a Physician Care Management Consultant for Permanente Medicine.   

Her healthcare research industry expertise includes business research innovations in health informatics digital health, developmental stage physician organization leadership in the areas of executive, administrative, clinical, education, life sciences and research and global economic networks.   She is a developer and author of business reports, presentations, funding reports, curriculums, and peer review articles for applications in health services research-health informatics, clinical tools, and education. 

Her values driving decision making include diplomacy, optimism, people, and communication, for  problem solving using research and data science tools.  She has clinical and research experience with ethics frameworks in the areas of values, principles, standards for measurement science, and the common limitations to data in the industry specialties of Healthcare-Internal Medicine and Medicine Pediatrics, and other research methods.  Her local, regional, National and Global experiences provide additional insight to the right solutions for complex problems. 

My career path began as a doctor.  I participated in basic science animal memory research through surgical ablation of the memory pathway with pre-post testing for visual and auditory recognition and chemical stimulation for understanding the role of the autonomic nervous system with pre-post testing of the HTN response.  My career path responsibilities required multi-disciplinary liberal arts training, clinical expertise, data science methods and applications, and health service research training.

Medical informatics curiosity began with clinical decision support and care process improvement infrastructure as a user/trainee in my clinical training and career positions at UNC Chapel Hill and Johns Hopkins Medicine.  The technology was introduced  in the resident clinic with clinical decision alerts for primary care/screening guidelines at the point of care.  These CDS tools promoted preventive care screening and/or reduction of unnecessary admissions and prevention of adverse outcomes.  My work also required working with consumers and leaders with different levels of training and methods on projects where there was a need to build new best practice standards.  Palliative care program tool development influenced the culture of clinical care management programs care plans, navigation of Information technology and application of ethical values, principles, and decision making through advance care planning. 

The experience of organizational change, different leadership structures, board culture, and executive management roles at a time of the hybrid EHR required adaptation to new solutions.  Early computer experience shaped my attitude, learning approach and motivation to understand new technology, risk taking and research ethical values, frameworks, principles and evidence.  Mentorship through education during my career followed  in the area of data science information innovation, informatics and the introduction of many diverse ecosystems with integration of industry disciplines.

I support the vision and mission of the Meta-Brain technology and research as it represents the integration of the fields of medicine, neurology/neuroscience, psychology, data science, and bio-informatics.  The future of technology and information science for healthcare is at the point of care and for provider and consumer facing devices requiring development of solutions for consumers, providers in teams, system processes and tools for self-directed education, research and service.