Robin Chestnut, PhD

Robin has her doctorate in political science as an NIMH fellow at NYU.  She has taught constitutional law at Baruch College, City University of New York, and has served on the adjunct faculty of the University of New Haven to teach business strategy, communications, and research methods.

 

She has held senior management positions in business, including Vice President of Research for American Home Products and Director of Research for American Express.

 

She is a professional moderator and expert in qualitative techniques (focus groups, remote moderating, in-depth interviews).  She is experienced in interviewing Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) in science and medicine, physicians of all specialties, healthcare professionals, and decision makers in a variety of healthcare organizations.  On the patient side, she works across all major conditions and has a depth of involvement in rare disorder communities (patient, caregiver, and advocates), cancer, and immune-related conditions.

 

Her strengths as a moderator lie in her abilities to focus on important issues, draw-out people's thoughts, beliefs, and feelings, and develop the basis for enhanced client understanding and action. 

Robert (Bob) Chestnut, PhD

Bob is an applied psychologist and NSF fellow from Purdue University.  He started his career as an Assistant Professor of Business at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University.  He has served on the faculty of Tilburg University, The Netherlands, as a Professor of Economic Psychology and on the adjunct faculty of NYU's Graduate School of Business.

 

While in academics, Bob published in the areas of decision making, persuasion, and communications.  In business, his positions included Technical Director of Research at Grey Advertising, International Research Director at Ted Bates Worldwide, and Director of Market Research at the Mars Corporation.

 

He is expert in quantitative measurement, analysis, and prediction of behavior.  He has designed and conducted studies of both physicians/HCPs and patients/consumers.  Applications have ranged from large-scale market studies to develop marketing and communications strategy at launch to small-scale web surveys to address tactics in pricing and product design, HCP usage of new treatments, and patient attitudes and behaviors.

 

His strengths lie in his ability to create new measurement tools/analyses and to build research applications for issues at the forefront of healthcare.