Robert F. Tamburro, M.D., M.Sc.

Robert F. Tamburro, M.D., M.Sc., is a board-certified pediatric critical care and hospice and palliative care medicine physician who serves as a senior adviser for clinical research in NICHD’s Division of Extramural Research. He joined NICHD as a medical officer in the Pediatric Trauma and Critical Illness Branch in 2014.

Dr. Tamburro graduated from the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (now known as the Northeast Ohio Medical University) in 1986. He did his pediatric residency training at Tod Children’s Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio, and his pediatric critical care medicine fellowship at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, where he also earned a master’s degree in epidemiology. He received board certification in hospice and palliative care medicine in 2008.