FORA.tv Speaker - Steven Schroeder

Dr. Schroeder is Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCSF, where he also heads the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center. Between 1990 and 2002 he was President and CEO, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. During his term of office, the Foundation made more than $4 billion in grants expenditures and it developed new programs in substance abuse prevention and treatment, care at the end of life, and health insurance expansion for children, among others. Dr. Schroeder graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Medical School, and trained in internal medicine at the Harvard Medical Service of Boston City Hospital and in epidemiology as an EIS Office of the CDC. He held faculty appointments at Harvard, George Washington, and UCSF. At both George Washington and UCSF he was founding medical director of a university-sponsored HMO, and at UCSF he founded its division of general internal medicine. He has published extensively in the fields of clinical medicine, health care financing and organization, prevention, public health, and the work force. He currently serves on the boards of the Irvine Foundation, the Charles Drew University, the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine, the International Review Committee of the Ben Gurion University School of Medicine (which he chairs), and the Harvard Overseers. He is President of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, and is past chairman of the American Legacy Foundation and former member of the Council, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous honors and has been awarded six honorary doctoral degrees.