Robert Karoukian is a San Francisco based anesthesiologist, with roots in Urmia/Iran, whose life has been devoted to Assyrian causes. When not practicing medicine, Karoukian is an artist, he is an Assyrian visual art collector, as well as a bibliophile with proficiency in history and in written and spoken Assyrian neo-Aramaic.

Karoukian is a former editor of Nineveh magazine, currently on the board of the publication, plus in charge of Education program at the Assyrian Foundation of America where he has been active for decades.