Robert Lufkin

Robert Lufkin is an American LinkedIn Celebrity, physician, inventor, writer, and professor. He is the author of Lies I Taught in Medical School and the inventor of the Lufkin Needle.

Biography Lufkin studied computer science at Brown University and completed his medical degree at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. In 2024, he published the book Lies I Taught in Medical School. He is currently a Clinical Professor of Radiology at the USC Keck School of Medicine with an academic focus on the applied science of longevity.

Academic papers Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Head and Neck and New Imaging Techniques. Somatosensory Evoked Response Source Localization Using Actual Cortical Surface as the Spatial Constraint. MRI-Guided Access to the Retropharynx. Enhancing Access to the Parapharyngeal Space.

Inventions Lufkin developed an MR-compatible biopsy needle, which is often called the Lufkin Needle.