Rob Sprinkle is a physician and policy scholar. He studied history at Dartmouth College and medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He trained clinically at the University of Virginia and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and is a diplomate of both the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics and a Fellow of the respective academies. He earned his second doctorate, the PhD, at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. He joined the University of Maryland School of Public Policy in 1995 and was promoted to a tenured associate professorship in 2001. He is the author or coauthor of papers in clinical medicine, bioethics, health policy, bioengineering, environmental policy, political theory, and biosecurity and is the author of one book, Profession of Conscience: The Making and Meaning of Life-Sciences Liberalism (Princeton University Press, 1994), an intellectual history of political-ethical thought in the life sciences. He was Editor-in-Chief of Politics and the Life Sciences from 2001 to 2008 and is now Contributing Editor for Electronic Publishing. He spent the 2007-2008 academic year on sabbatical at Dartmouth, where he held visiting positions in Ethics, Public Policy, and Pediatrics.
