Dr. Steven A. Schroeder, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will be the guest of the Department of Public Health as the first Lorraine and Ralph Lubin Distinguished Visiting Professor at WMC, Feb. 14–15.
On Wednesday, Feb. 14, Dr. Schroeder will present the featured Lubin Visiting Professor Lecture at the Dean's Hour at 5 p.m. in Weill Auditorium. His topic will be "Challenges for Health and Health Care in the 21st Century." He will also be the guest speaker earlier in the day at the David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium (1 p.m. in the Uris Faculty Room, A-126), where his topic will be "How Will Medicine Withstand the Challenge of Managed Care and Cost Containment?" On Feb. 15, the Department of Public Health will host a lunch with Dr. Schroeder and he will meet with Weill Cornell students.
Dr. Schroeder received his medical education at Harvard Medical School. He has had faculty appointments at Harvard, George Washington University, and the University of California, San Francisco. He became president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (the nation's largest health philanthropy) in 1990, also becoming CEO in 1999. Among his memberships are the editorial board of The New England Journal of Medicine and the Board of Overseers of Harvard College.
The Lorraine and Ralph Lubin Distinguished Visiting Professorship, the first distinguished visiting professorship sponsored by Weill Cornell's Department of Public Health, was established through an endowed gift from Dr. Madelon Lubin Finkel, professor of clinical public health, in honor of her parents.