About

Robert English is an Associate Professor of International Relations, Slavic Languages and Literature, and Environmental Studies at USC Dornsife. His research focuses on Russia, the former USSR, and Eastern Europe, encompassing issues of regional relations, ethnicity, identity, and nationalism. He is currently working on a book-length study titled Our Serbian Brethren: History, Myth, and the Politics of Russian National Identity. Professor English has a background in politics, holding a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University and an M.P.A. in international relations and national security from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. He also earned a B.A. in history and Slavic studies from the University of California, Berkeley. His professional experience includes work as a policy analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense and the Committee for National Security. He has received notable awards such as the Marshal Shulman Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in 2001 and the Harold D. Lasswell Prize from the American Political Science Association in 1996.

Research topics

• Computer Security
• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Internal medicine
• Medicine
• Cancer research
• Bioinformatics
• Biology
• Law
• Cardiology
• Computational biology
• Endocrinology

Selected publications

• Rigour of development of European Society of Cardiology, American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association guidelines over a 12-year period (2013–2024): a systematic review of guidelines

  European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes · 2025-01-20 · 2 citations

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  INTRODUCTION: The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) regularly publish guidelines for the management of cardiovascular disease. By definition, a guideline should follow strict methodological criteria, and have a transparent, traceable, and reproducible development process. We aimed to assess the overall strength of the recommendations and rigour of methodological development in ESC and ACC/AHA guidelines. METHODS AND RESULTS: A systematic review of ESC and ACC/AHA guidelines published from 2013 to 2024 was conducted. Documents class of recommendation (COR) and level of evidence (LOE) of recommendations were included. For each document, data regarding citation count (ISI and Scholar), and COR and LOE of the recommendations were extracted. Guidelines were assessed for rigour of methodological development using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation II (AGREE II) instrument. Among the 76 included guidelines, the average citation-per-year was 344 (ISI) and 681 (Scholar). Forty-nine per cent of the recommendations were classified as COR I (strong recommendations), while 46% were based solely on expert opinion (LOE C). The overall AGREE II methodology domain score was 29 ± 6 (range 7-56), with the lowest performance for the domains of systematic search of evidence, use of pre-defined criteria for selecting the evidence and external review. Both the strength of the recommendations and rigour of development showed a stable trend over the past 12 years. ACC/AHA guidelines followed more rigorous development methods compared with ESC (AGREE II 36 ± 3 vs. 24 ± 3). CONCLUSIONS: Clinical guidelines from the main European and American cardiovascular societies are highly cited but show significant limitations in methodological rigour.

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• TAKAYASU ARTERITIS IN AN INFANT PRESENTING WITH MITRAL VALVE DYSFUNCTION

  Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2025-03-30

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• The Role of Medical therapy and Radiotherapy in the management of Pituitary Macroprolactinomas

  Endocrine Abstracts · 2023-05-02

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  Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences in endocrinology ISSN 1470-3947 (print) | ISSN 1479-6848 (online)

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• Pituitary Macroadenoma and hypercalcaemia - An association or an incidental finding?

  Endocrine Abstracts · 2023-05-02

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• Rescuing Gorbachev from the Memory Hole

  Russian History · 2023-04-28

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  Abstract The recent death of Mikhail Gorbachev prompted many tributes to the former Soviet leader’s signal achievements in democratizing the USSR , ending the Cold War, and permitting the peaceful collapse of empire. However, a number of prominent pundits have attacked Gorbachev in post mortems that are factually flawed, internally contradictory, and deeply ahistorical. Descriptions of Gorbachev as a “quintessential apparatchik,” a bloody “totalitarian,” and a dyed-in-the wool defender of “Russian empire” tell more about the present biases of their authors than they do about the past dramas of perestroika and the Cold War’s end. Unfortunately, the coincidence of Gorbachev’s death in the midst of Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine seems to have unleashed a Russophobia that unfairly stains Gorbachev’s remarkable legacy.

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• Addisonian crisis unmasked by levothyroxine replacement in a patient admitted with suspected septic shock

  Endocrine Abstracts · 2023-05-02

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• Amiodarone-Induced Thyroid Disorders Not Uncommon

  Endocrine Abstracts · 2023 · 1 citations

  • Medicine
  • Internal medicine
  • Cardiology

  Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences in endocrinology ISSN 1470-3947 (print) | ISSN 1479-6848 (online)

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• The ‘omics of obesity in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

  JNCI Monographs · 2023 · 10 citations

  • Medicine
  • Computational biology
  • Cancer research

  The obesity pandemic currently affects more than 70 million Americans and more than 650 million individuals worldwide. In addition to increasing susceptibility to pathogenic infections (eg, SARS-CoV-2), obesity promotes the development of many cancer subtypes and increases mortality rates in most cases. We and others have demonstrated that, in the context of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), adipocytes promote multidrug chemoresistance. Furthermore, others have demonstrated that B-ALL cells exposed to the adipocyte secretome alter their metabolic states to circumvent chemotherapy-mediated cytotoxicity. To better understand how adipocytes impact the function of human B-ALL cells, we used a multi-omic RNA-sequencing (single-cell and bulk transcriptomic) and mass spectroscopy (metabolomic and proteomic) approaches to define adipocyte-induced changes in normal and malignant B cells. These analyses revealed that the adipocyte secretome directly modulates programs in human B-ALL cells associated with metabolism, protection from oxidative stress, increased survival, B-cell development, and drivers of chemoresistance. Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis of mice on low- and high-fat diets revealed that obesity suppresses an immunologically active B-cell subpopulation and that the loss of this transcriptomic signature in patients with B-ALL is associated with poor survival outcomes. Analyses of sera and plasma samples from healthy donors and those with B-ALL revealed that obesity is associated with higher circulating levels of immunoglobulin-associated proteins, which support observations in obese mice of altered immunological homeostasis. In all, our multi-omics approach increases our understanding of pathways that may promote chemoresistance in human B-ALL and highlight a novel B-cell-specific signature in patients associated with survival outcomes.

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• Retrospective Analysis of Cataract Formation and Nutritional Etiology in a Managed Collection of Parakeet Auklets (Aethia psittacula)

  Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery · 2022-01-28

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  ) is a piscivorous seabird with a natural diet of various invertebrate and teleost species, which is challenging to replicate in a managed collection. A high prevalence of early onset cataracts was observed in a managed collection of parakeet auklets at the North Carolina Zoo (Asheboro, NC, USA), which was hypothesized to be related to inappropriate vitamin A and E levels. From 1994 to 2002, these parakeet auklets were offered dietary supplementation comprising Vita-Zu small bird tablets. In June 2002, the birds were transitioned to only Thiamin-E paste (vitamin E and thiamin only). Plasma samples were collected from birds with and without cataracts from 1998 to 2005 and submitted for vitamin A (retinol) and vitamin E (α-tocopherol) analysis. Food items comprising the birds' diet were also evaluated for vitamin content. This information was combined with clinical and necropsy data from medical records from 1994 to 2015. A total of 78% of birds (39/50) developed cataracts, with a median age of onset of 7 years (range, 2-12 years). Cataracts ranged from incipient to hypermature during both routine ophthalmic examinations and postmortem evaluations. The median (range) of plasma retinol and α-tocopherol values were 1.99 µg/mL (0.20-6.68 µg/mL) and 15.39 µg/mL (3.40-96.27 µg/mL), respectively. There were no significant differences in plasma concentrations of vitamins based on the animals' sex, origin, presence of cataracts, or administered vitamin supplementation product. No other etiologies for cataract development were identified in the population. Further research in free-ranging parakeet auklet nutrition and cataract occurrence is warranted for continued species collection management.

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• 1. Soviet Union/Russia: US Diplomacy with the Russian “Adversary”

  Stanford University Press eBooks · 2020

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  • Political Science
  • Political Science
  • Computer Security
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Frequent coauthors

• Robert J. Cotter

  Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

  31 shared

• Bettina Warscheid

  University of Würzburg

  19 shared

• Catherine Fenselau

  University of Maryland, College Park

  16 shared

• A. James McAdams

  15 shared

• Jonathan E. Helmreich

  15 shared

• Paul C. Helmreich

  15 shared

• Cyril Ε. Black

  15 shared

• Michael J. Van Stipdonk

  Duquesne University

  12 shared

Awards & honors

• Marshal Shulman Prize, American Association for the Advancem…
• Harold D. Lasswell Prize, American Political Science Associa…