{{Short description|American emergency physician}}{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Other people|Robert Rodriguez}} {{Infobox medical person |name = Robert Rodriguez |birth_place = [[Brownsville, Texas]], U.S. |education = [[University of Notre Dame]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br />[[Harvard University]] ([[Doctor of Medicine|MD]]) |work_institutions = [[San Francisco General Hospital]]<br />[[UCSF School of Medicine]] |field = [[Emergency medicine]]<br />[[Internal medicine]]<br />[[Intensive care medicine|Critical care medicine]] }} '''Robert M. Rodriguez''' is an American [[emergency physician]] working at the [[San Francisco General Hospital]]. He is a professor of emergency medicine at the [[UCSF School of Medicine]] and was a member of the [[COVID-19 Advisory Board]] of U.S. president [[Joe Biden]].
== Early life and education == Rodriguez was born in [[Brownsville, Texas]] to a [[Hispanics and Latinos in Texas|Latino family]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gamboa|first=Suzanne|date=November 9, 2020|title=Two Latino physicians and disease experts are part of Biden's Covid-19 task force|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/two-latino-physicians-disease-experts-are-part-biden-s-covid-n1247165|access-date=2020-11-10|website=NBC News|language=en}}</ref> He earned his undergraduate degree at [[University of Notre Dame]] and a medical degree at [[Harvard Medical School]]. Rodriguez completed a 5-year residency in [[emergency medicine]] and [[internal medicine]] at [[Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center]]. He developed an interest in the [[physiology]] of [[critically ill]] patients and completed a 2-year critical care fellowship at [[Stanford University Medical Center]]. Rodriguez is board certified in emergency medicine, internal medicine, and critical care medicine.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Andersen|first=Travis|date=November 9, 2020|title=Boston-area ties run deep in Biden's coronavirus task force|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/09/metro/boston-area-ties-run-deep-bidens-coronavirus-task-force/|access-date=2020-11-10|website=The Boston Globe|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Career == Rodriguez is an emergency physician at [[San Francisco General Hospital]] and a professor of emergency medicine at the [[UCSF School of Medicine]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Robert Rodriguez {{!}} UCSF Profiles|url=https://profiles.ucsf.edu/robert.rodriguez#toc-id0|access-date=2020-11-09|website=profiles.ucsf.edu}}</ref> In July 2020, Rodriguez treated patients along the [[Mexico–United States border]] during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Larsen|first=Kate|date=July 29, 2020|title=California doctor calls week working in Texas hospital hardest of his career|url=https://abc11.com/6340318/|access-date=2020-11-10|website=ABC11 Raleigh-Durham|language=en}}</ref> He researched heightened stress and anxiety levels among physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Levenson|first=Eric|date=November 9, 2020|title=Here's who's on President-elect Biden's newly formed Transition Covid-19 Advisory Board|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/health/members-of-biden-covid-19-advisory-board/index.html|access-date=2020-11-10|website=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Fernandez|first=Elizabeth|date=July 21, 2020|title=Front-Line Physicians Stressed and Anxious at Work and Home|url=https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/07/418126/front-line-physicians-stressed-and-anxious-work-and-home|access-date=2020-11-10|website=UC San Francisco|language=en}}</ref> In November 2020, he was named to the [[COVID-19 Advisory Board]] of President [[Joe Biden]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=Macias|first=TJ|date=November 9, 2020|title=Who is Robert Rodriguez? Texas doctor on President-elect Biden's COVID-19 task force|work=The Charlotte Observer|url=https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article247073182.html}}</ref>
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