Robin E. Canada, MD
Internal Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Center for Primary Care
Schedule onlineCall 215-662-9990
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Associate Program Director, Primary Care Track Residency Program
  • Director of Residency Education, Puentes de Salud
  • Professor of Clinical Medicine (General Internal Medicine)

Education and training

  • Medical School: Jefferson Medical College
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

What my patients think about me

Average Rating

348 reviews

Comments are submitted by patients and reflect their views and opinions. The comments are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of Penn Medicine.

October 2025
excellent in every way
October 2025
she is a good listener
September 2025
caring practice
September 2025
she is smart and thoughtful and knows me well

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Canada is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Anjeli Manam, MD ASLD, Jinjuan Hao, Natalia Salinas Parra, Robin Canada. “Primary Care Physician Comfort With MASLD Screening in a Higher-Risk, Resource-Limited Setting: A Proposed Cost-Conscious Algorithm to Screening " , ACG Conference: 2025

Canada, R. and Abernethy, J. Detained!!! , CLOSLER (https://closler.org/ Distributed to ~8,000 individuals via CLOSLER's weekly email update & seen on Twitter by @CLOSLER’s ~6,000 followers. : 2025

Elizabeth Whidden, Dr. Rahael Borchers, Dr. Kaitlin Demarest, Dr. Daniela Mirda, Dr. Robin Canada "Complex Care: Connecting Undocumented Latinx Patients with Complex Medical Needs to Specialty Care" , International Refugee and Migration Health Conference. : 2025

Kaitlin Demarest, Elizabeth Whidden, Daniela Mirda, Robin Canada “Inpatient Management and Discharge Planning for Patients without Insurance” , SGIM Poster: 2025

Hector Mora, Camila Nupuri, Sharon Katzenbach, Elizabeth Whidden, Robin Canada “Revolutionizing Healthcare in a Resource-limited Clinic: Leveraging Free Automation Software for Population Health”. , SGIM National Meeting Poster: 2024

Heintz, John; Schnure, Nilan, Canada, Robin "Evaluating Hazardous Alcohol Use Among Undocumented Urban Latino Immigrants" , SGIM National Meeting Poster: 2021

Robin Canada, MD Soda Tax is Cutting Consumption , Philadelphia Inquirer: 2020

Canada, RE Best Practices for Teaching Care Management of Undocumented Patients , AMA Journal of Ethics, 21(1): 2019,44-49

Rose, Julian; Panganamamula, Kayshap; Canada, Robin Use of Community Health Workers in a Fecal Immunochemical Test Screening Campaign for Underserved Latino Immigrants: Experience from a Single Community Health Clinic , Poster, AGA Digestive Disease Week: 2019

Heather Klusaritz “Making a Difference” Interviews with Drs. Robin Canada and Rani Nandiwada , https://www.ncibh.org/news-and-events/integrating-opioid-use-disorder-treatment-into-health-workforce-training/interview-with-drs-robin-canada-and-rani-nandiwada: 2018