Steven A. Schroeder

Steven A. Schroeder is Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he also heads the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center. He served as the President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 1990 to 2002. Schroeder is known for his work in promoting smoking cessation strategies.

Early life and education

Steven A. Schroeder was raised in El Cerrito, CA. He graduated from Stanford University in 1960 and entered Harvard Medical School, earning an M.D. in 1964. He trained in internal medicine at the Harvard Medical Service of Boston City Hospital. He then became an officer of the Epidemiological Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control and held faculty appointments at Harvard and George Washington University. In 1976 UCSF Chair of Medicine, Lloyd “Holly” Smith, recruited Dr. Schroeder to the faculty, where he created the Division of General Internal Medicine (1980). He recruited a talented group of junior faculty, many of whom are still at UCSF.

Also in 1976 Schroeder became part of the core faculty in the Health Policy Program at UCSF, a program that evolved into a national Health Services Policy Analysis Center (1977). In 1981 it was renamed the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies (now the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies) and designated an Organized Research Unit by the UC Regents. In addition to his work in the Division of General Medicine, Dr. Schroeder published widely in health services research, often in collaboration with Jonathan Showstack, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Schroeder has been married to Sally Ross Schroeder for 51 years. They have two physicians sons and four grandchildren.

Honors

Schroeder's honors include 6 honorary doctoral degrees, the Lienhard Award from the National Academy of Medicine, and the Rogers Award from the American Association of American Medical Colleges. The American Legacy Foundation (now known as Truth Institute) names its National Institute for Tobacco Policy Studies in his honor in 2006, and the Leapfrog Group in 2018 inaugurated the Schroeder Award for Outstanding Health Care CEO. He gave the 2001 Shattuck Lecture for the New England Journal of Medicine.

Memberships and Societies

A few of the many memberships Schroeder is a member of are the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association of Physicians, American College of Physicians, American Public Health Association, the National Academy of Medicine, and the Society of General Internal Medicine.

Special National Committees and Offices

Some notable national committees Schroeder was a part of was the President-Elect and President of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association in 2003-2006, a part of the External Advisory Board of the New York University School of Medicine, Department of Population Health in 2016, and the Chair of the Advisory Committee of the New York University College of Global Public Health in 2017.

Journal Editorial Boards and Directorships

Among many editorial boards, Schroeder was a member of the Editorial Board of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1994-2013. His directorships include the Vice Chair (2001-2003) and Chair (2003-2005) of the American Legacy Foundation (now Truth Initiative), Board of Overseers of Harvard College from 2000-2006, The James Irvine Foundation from 2004-2015, the Mathematica Policy Research from 2011 onward, and the Marin Community Foundation.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

From 1990 to 2002, Steven Schroeder left UCSF to become President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. During his tenure at RWJF, he made over four billion dollars in grants and developed new programs in substance abuse, prevention and treatment; studies in end of life care; and the expansion of health insurance for children.

Smoking Cessation Leadership Center

In 2003 Schroeder returned to UCSF and serves as Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care in the Department of Medicine. He heads the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC), a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and American Legacy Foundation, designed to work with health professionals and organizations to "narrow the gap between what should be done to help smokers quit, and what is currently done." A major project of the SCLC has been to mainstream smoking cessation treatments among populations victimized by smoking - those with mental health illnesses and substance use disorders.

References

• Smoking Cessation Leadership Center

Further reading

• Steven A. Schroeder (November 2012). "Does the Moral Arc of the Universe Really Bend Toward Justice?". Journal of General Internal Medicine. 27 (11): 1397–1399. doi:10.1007/s11606-012-2146-x. PMC 3475820. PMID 22782279.
• Steven A. Schroeder (April 2011). "Personal reflections on the high cost of American medical care: Many causes but few politically sustainable solutions". Archives of Internal Medicine. 171 (8): 722–727. doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2011.149. PMID 21518938.
• Steven A. Schroeder, Chad Morris (April 2010). "Confronting a Neglected Epidemic: Tobacco Cessation for Persons with Mental Illnesses and Substance Abuse Problems". Annual Review of Public Health. 31: 297–314. doi:10.1146/annurev.publhealth.012809.103701. PMID 20001818.
• Steven A. Schroeder (February 2009). "Clinical Crossroads: A 51-year-old Woman with Bipolar Disorder Who Wants to Quit Smoking". Journal of the American Medical Association. 301 (5): 522–531. doi:10.1001/jama.2008.982. PMID 19126801.
• Steven A. Schroeder (September 2007). "We can do better: Improving the health of the American people". New England Journal of Medicine. 357 (12): 1221–1228. doi:10.1056/NEJMsa073350. PMID 17881753.
• Steven A. Schroeder (July 2005). "What to Do with a Patient Who Smokes". Journal of the American Medical Association. 294 (4): 482–487. doi:10.1001/jama.294.4.482. PMID 16046655.
• Steven A. Schroeder, Steve Isaacs (September 2004). "Class - The Ignored Determinant of the Nation's Health". New England Journal of Medicine. 351 (11): 1137–1142. doi:10.1056/NEJMsb040329. PMID 15356313.