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 born and raised in El Cerrito, CA. He graduated from Stanford University in 1960 and entered Harvard Medical School, earning the 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 a 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.
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
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.