Steven A. Schroeder
Steven A. Schroeder is Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care at the University of California, San Francisco, 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 in Staten Island, NY. He graduated from Stanford University in 1960 and received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1964.
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 named its National Institute for Tobacco Policy Studies in his honor in 2006, and the Leapfrog Group and the organization Costs of Care in 2018 inaugurated the Schroeder Award for Outstanding Health Care CEO. He gave the 2007 Shattuck Lecture for the Massachusetts Medical Society and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Memberships and societies
Schroeder is a member of 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, as well as other organizations.
Special national committees and offices
Schroeder was president of the Society for General Internal Medicine and the Harvard Medical Alumni Association in 2003–2006. He has been a part of many academic review boards, including those at NYU, Penn, U. Vermont, U Wisconsin, UC Berkeley, and UCSF.
Journal editorial boards and directorships
Schroeder was a member of the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1994 to 2013. His directorships include the vice chair and chair of the American Legacy Foundation, Board of Overseers of Harvard College from 2000 to 2006, The James Irvine Foundation from 2004 to 2015, Mathematica Policy Research from 2011 onward, and the Marin Community Foundation.
Schroeder was president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 1990 to 2002.
Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
Schroeder returned to UCSF in 2003, serving as Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care in the Department of Medicine and as head of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center.
Publications
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