Steve Schroeder, MD
Professor Emeritus
Medicine
School of Medicine

The Center, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Truth Initiative, works with leaders of more than 80 American health professional organizations and health care institutions to increase the cessation rate for smokers. It has expanded the types of clinician groups that support cessation, developed an alternative cessation message (Ask, Advise, Refer), created new ways to market toll-free telephone quit lines, and engaged the mental health and addictions treatment community for the first time. The Center's current work is focused especially on how to reduce the huge health burden from smoking that falls upon those with mental illnesses and/or substance abuse disorders. SCLC works collaboratively with SAMHSA, HRSA, the CDC, and multiple health professional groups to provide technical assistance to help strengthen smoking cessation capabilities. The Center has also facilitated summit meetings involving 18 states that conduct tobacco cessation summits enabling states to achieve targeted reductions in smoking rates among behavioral health populations.

Between 1990 and 2002, Dr. Schroeder was President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. During that time the Foundation made grant expenditures of almost $4 billion in pursuit of its mission of improving the health and health care of all Americans. 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 with honors 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 Officer of the CDC. He held faculty appointments at Harvard, George Washington, and UCSF. At both George Washington and UCSF he was the founding medical director of a university-sponsored HMO, and at UCSF he founded its division of general internal medicine. He is a director of, the Marin General Hospital, the Marin Community Foundation, Mathematica Policy Research, and the Robina Foundation, and former member of the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine (for 19 years) and former chair of the Health Care Services Board of the Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine). He formerly chaired the American Legacy Foundation (now Truth Initiative), was a Council member of the Institute of Medicine, an Overseer of Harvard, President, the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, and director of the James Irvine Foundation. In 2014 he was named a public member of the Congressionally-mandated federal Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health. He has won numerous awards, including six honorary doctoral degrees and the Gustav O. Leinhard Award from the National Academy of Medicine. He and his wife Sally live in Tiburon, CA. They have two physician sons and four grandchildren.

• Helping Smokers Quit: The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center Engages Behavioral Health by Challenging Old Myths and Traditions.
  Journal of psychoactive drugs 2017 Schroeder SA, Clark B, Cheng C, Saucedo CB
• FDA's Innovative Plan to Address the Enormous Toll of Smoking.
  JAMA 2017 Warner KE, Schroeder SA
• Capsule Commentary on Rigotti et al., Interactive Voice Response Calls to Promote Smoking Cessation after Hospital Discharge: Pooled Analysis of Two Randomized Clinical Trials.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2017 Schroeder SA
• Epilogue to Special Issue on Tobacco and Other Substance Use Disorders: Links and Implications.
  The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse 2016 Schroeder SA
• Response: Re: Social Justice as the Moral Core of Family Medicine: A Perspective from the Keystone IV Conference.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2016 Schroeder SA
• An Industry/Academia Collaborative to Support Smoking-Cessation Grants.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2016 Jensen TP, Hennein RT, Saucedo CB, Clark BM, Waldrop JA, Schroeder SA
• The effectiveness of tobacco control policies on vulnerable populations in the USA: a review.
  Postgraduate medical journal 2016 Vijayaraghavan M, Schroeder SA, Kushel M
• Changes in Smoking Intensity Over Time by Birth Cohort and by Latino National Background, 1997-2014.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2016 Rodriquez EJ, Oh SS, Pérez-Stable EJ, Schroeder SA
• Social Justice as the Moral Core of Family Medicine: A Perspective from the Keystone IV Conference.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2016 Schroeder SA
• Commentary on a smoke-free medical campus in Jerusalem: data for action.
  Israel journal of health policy research 2016 Schroeder SA
• Smoking cessation should be an integral part of serious mental illness treatment.
  World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) 2016 Schroeder SA
• American health improvement depends upon addressing class disparities.
  Preventive medicine 2016 Schroeder SA
• Southern Medical Students' Views on Medicaid Expansion.
  JAMA internal medicine 2016 Cullen EB, Hauer KE, Eisenstein L, Boscardin CK, Schroeder SA
• The facts are clear.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2015 Schroeder S, Guydish J
• Even more illness caused by smoking than previously estimated.
  JAMA internal medicine 2014 Schroeder SA
• Potential overdiagnosis of basal cell carcinoma in older patients with limited life expectancy.
  JAMA 2014 Linos E, Schroeder SA, Chren MM
• Ending the sale of cigarettes at US pharmacies--reply.
  JAMA 2014 Brennan TA, Schroeder S
• Tobacco education in U.S. respiratory care programs.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2014 Hudmon KS, Mark M, Livin AL, Corelli RL, Schroeder SA
• Is it time for a tobacco-free military?
  The New England journal of medicine 2014 Smith EA, Jahnke SA, Poston WS, Williams LN, Haddock CK, Schroeder SA, Malone RE
• Ending sales of tobacco products in pharmacies.
  JAMA 2014 Brennan TA, Schroeder SA
• From the sidelines to the frontline: how the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration embraced smoking cessation.
  American journal of public health 2014 Santhosh L, Meriwether M, Saucedo C, Reyes R, Cheng C, Clark B, Tipperman D, Schroeder SA
• Physicians, politics, and health insurance expansion.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2014 Schroeder SA
• Smoke, the chief killer--strategies for targeting combustible tobacco use.
  The New England journal of medicine 2014 Fiore MC, Schroeder SA, Baker TB
• Tobacco control 50 years after the 1964 surgeon general's report.
  JAMA 2014 Schroeder SA, Koh HK
• Adding value to relative-value units.
  The New England journal of medicine 2013 Stecker EC, Schroeder SA
• Can physicians change their laboratory test ordering behavior? A new look at an old issue.
  JAMA internal medicine 2013 Schroeder SA
• Smoking-related mortality in the United States.
  The New England journal of medicine 2013 Schroeder S
• Phasing out fee-for-service payment.
  The New England journal of medicine 2013 Schroeder SA, Frist W, National Commission on Physician Payment Reform
• Helping smokers quit around the time of surgery.
  JAMA 2013 Khullar D, Schroeder SA, Maa J
• New evidence that cigarette smoking remains the most important health hazard.
  The New England journal of medicine 2013 Schroeder SA
• Smoking among hospitalized patients: another opportunity to improve patients' health.
  Archives of internal medicine 2012 Schroeder SA
• Does the moral arc of the universe really bend toward justice?
  Journal of general internal medicine 2012 Schroeder SA
• How clinicians can help smokers to quit.
  JAMA 2012 Schroeder SA
• The Joint Commission's new tobacco-cessation measures--will hospitals do the right thing?
  The New England journal of medicine 2012 Fiore MC, Goplerud E, Schroeder SA
• An update about tobacco and cancer: what clinicians should know.
  Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education 2012 Schroeder SA
• Depression, smoking, and heart disease: how can psychiatrists be effective?
  The American journal of psychiatry 2011 Schroeder SA
• An online survey of tobacco use, intentions to quit, and cessation strategies among people living with bipolar disorder.
  Bipolar disorders 2011 Prochaska JJ, Reyes RS, Schroeder SA, Daniels AS, Doederlein A, Bergeson B
• Personal reflections on the high cost of American medical care: many causes but few politically sustainable solutions.
  Archives of internal medicine 2011 Schroeder SA
• The kids will be all right (if they don't smoke).
  American journal of preventive medicine 2010 Schroeder SA
• Don't forget tobacco.
  The New England journal of medicine 2010 Schroeder SA, Warner KE
• National survey of U.S. health professionals' smoking prevalence, cessation practices, and beliefs.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2010 Tong EK, Strouse R, Hall J, Kovac M, Schroeder SA
• Simplicity sells: Making smoking cessation easier.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2010 Bonniot Saucedo C, Schroeder SA
• Confronting a neglected epidemic: tobacco cessation for persons with mental illnesses and substance abuse problems.
  Annual review of public health 2010 Schroeder SA, Morris CD
• What surgeons can do to reduce the impact of smoking on surgical outcomes.
  Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons 2009 Maa J, Warner D, Schroeder S
• Public smoking bans are good for the heart.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2009 Schroeder SA
• Refocusing the lens: patient safety in ambulatory chronic disease care.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2009 Sarkar U, Wachter RM, Schroeder SA, Schillinger D
• Moving forward in smoking cessation: issues for psychiatric nurses.
  Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 2009 Schroeder SA
• A 51-year-old woman with bipolar disorder who wants to quit smoking.
  JAMA 2009 Schroeder SA
• Helping smokers quit: understanding the barriers to utilization of smoking cessation services.
  The Milbank quarterly 2008 Gollust SE, Schroeder SA, Warner KE
• Strategies to reduce tobacco use the role of state research.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2008 Schroeder SA
• Health of the nation--coverage for all Americans.
  The New England journal of medicine 2008 Baker CD, Caplan A, Davis K, Dentzer S, Epstein AM, Frist B, Galvin RS, King-Shaw RJ, Lee TH, Oberlander JB, Rosenbaum S, Schroeder SA, Tuckson RV
• Multifactorial intervention and mortality in type 2 diabetes.
  The New England journal of medicine 2008 Schroeder SA
• Stranded in the periphery--the increasing marginalization of smokers.
  The New England journal of medicine 2008 Schroeder S
• California dreamin'--state health care reform and the prospect for national change.
  The New England journal of medicine 2008 Isaacs SL, Schroeder SA
• Shattuck Lecture. We can do better--improving the health of the American people.
  The New England journal of medicine 2007 Schroeder SA
• Role of smoking in U.S. CVD.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2007 Schroeder SA
• Trials that matter: varenicline: a designer drug to help smokers quit.
  Annals of internal medicine 2006 Schroeder SA, Sox HC
• Should emergency physicians help smokers quit?
  Annals of emergency medicine 2006 Schroeder SA
• Internal medicine training: putt or get off the green.
  Annals of internal medicine 2006 Schroeder SA, Sox HC
• Tobacco still is oral health enemy number one.
  Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) 2006 Schroeder SA
• What to do with a patient who smokes.
  JAMA 2005 Schroeder SA
• An agenda to combat substance abuse.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2005 Schroeder SA
• Simplicity matters: using system-level changes to encourage clinician intervention in helping tobacco users quit.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2005 Revell CC, Schroeder SA
• The tobacco buyout and the FDA.
  The New England journal of medicine 2004 Schroeder SA
• Class - the ignored determinant of the nation's health.
  The New England journal of medicine 2004 Isaacs SL, Schroeder SA
• How many hours is enough? An old profession meets a new generation.
  Annals of internal medicine 2004 Schroeder SA
• Tobacco control in the wake of the 1998 master settlement agreement.
  The New England journal of medicine 2004 Schroeder SA
• Don't let medicine lose its soul!
  The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society. Alpha Omega Alpha 2004 Schroeder SA
• The future of general internal medicine. Report and recommendations from the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Task Force on the Domain of General Internal Medicine.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2004 Larson EB, Fihn SD, Kirk LM, Levinson W, Loge RV, Reynolds E, Sandy L, Schroeder S, Wenger N, Williams M, Task Force on the Domain of General Internal Medicine. Society of General Internal Medicine (…
• Intensity, not prices.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2003 Schroeder SA
• Primary care in a new era: disillusion and dissolution?.
  Annals of internal medicine 2003 Sandy LG, Schroeder SA
• Addressing both health and health care: an interview with Steven A. Schroeder [interview by John K. Iglehart].
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2002 Schroeder SA
• Conflicting dispatches from the tobacco wars.
  The New England journal of medicine 2002 Schroeder SA
• Primary care at a crossroads.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2002 Schroeder SA
• Evolving residency requirements for ambulatory care training for five medical specialties, 1961 to 1989.
  The Western journal of medicine 1989 Zones JS, Schroeder SA
• The changing dynamics of graduate medical education. Implications for decision-making.
  The Western journal of medicine 1987 Gerbert B, Showstack JA, Chapman SA, Schroeder SA
• The role of changing clinical practices in the rising costs of hospital care.
  The New England journal of medicine 1985 Showstack JA, Stone MH, Schroeder SA
• Reduction in medical-school class size.
  The New England journal of medicine 1984 Schroeder SA, Gerbert B, Showstack JA, Chapman S
• The failure of physician education as a cost containment strategy. Report of a prospective controlled trial at a university hospital.
  JAMA 1984 Schroeder SA, Myers LP, McPhee SJ, Showstack JA, Simborg DW, Chapman SA, Leong JK
• Changes in the use of medical technologies, 1972-1977: a study of 10 inpatient diagnoses.
  The New England journal of medicine 1982 Showstack JA, Schroeder SA, Matsumoto MF
• Evaluating the costs and benefits of a diagnostic technology: the case of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.
  Medical care 1981 Showstack JA, Schroeder SA, Steinberg HR
• Survival of adult high-cost patients. Report of a follow-up study from nine acute-care hospitals.
  JAMA 1981 Schroeder SA, Showstack JA, Schwartz J
• Frequency and clinical description of high-cost patients in 17 acute-care hospitals.
  The New England journal of medicine 1979 Schroeder SA, Showstack JA, Roberts HE
• Merchandising cigarettes in pharmacies: a San Francisco survey.
  American journal of public health 1978 Schroeder SA, Showstack JA
• Financial incentives to perform medical procedures and laboratory tests: illustrative models of office practice.
  Medical care 1978 Schroeder SA, Showstack JA
• Primary care in the academic medical centers: A report of a survey by the AAMC.
  Journal of medical education 1974 Schroeder SA, Werner SM, Piemme TE