Steven A. Schroeder, M.D.

Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), was selected to receive the 2007 Richard and Barbara Hansen Leadership Award and Distinguished Lectureship. Dr. Schroeder also serves as director of UCSF’s Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, a national program in the office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that aims to increase smoking cessation rates and increase the number of health professionals who help smokers quit.

During his visit to the UI campus, Dr. Schroeder met with students, faculty, elected officials, and local health care leaders to discuss current health care issues.

Biographical Information

Dr. Schroeder graduated with honors from Stanford University and Harvard Medical School, and trained in internal medicine at the Harvard Medical Service of Boston City Hospital. Between 1990 and 2002 he served as president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. During his tenure, 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 has published extensively in the fields of clinical medicine, health care financing and organization, prevention, public health, the health work force and tobacco control. He has received numerous honors and has been awarded six honorary doctoral degrees.

Lecture Video

Video: “Pathways to Better Health: Some Run Through Healthcare Systems, Some Do Not”