Dr. Ken Robbins graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed residencies in both internal medicine and psychiatry. He is board certified in both.

He has been on the clinical faculty at the University of Wisconsin for over 35 years, teaching consultation psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, collaborative psychiatry, psychopharmacology and geriatric psychiatry, primarily. He has also been on the clinical faculty of UC Davis. After establishing a clinical practice at a multi-specialty medical clinic in Madison, Wisconsin, he combined clinical practice with a number of administrative positions: Ken served as Medical Director for the state hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, and for over 20 years also served as the Medical Director for a hospital geriatric psychiatry unit and helped oversee community psychiatry in southern Wisconsin.

At present, Ken oversees a hospice residential unit for people with late-stage dementia in Madison, Wisconsin. He also serves as the Medical Director for a Medicaid grant focused on creating a more integrated mental health system in several counties in California. He has also been Medical Director for psychiatry at Tribal Health in Lake County, California.

In the past he has practiced forensic psychiatry, which included interviewing people responsible for many of the most publicized crimes in the Midwest and working to improve prison conditions for those incarcerated with serious mental illnesses. He had been the psychiatry consultant for Time Warner’s medical website, health.com, and the website caring.com, which had been a site for caregivers working primarily with dementia patients. He is currently serving as a consultant to Rippl.com, a behavioral health company dedicated to providing excellent care for people with dementia.