Dr. Schroeder currently serves as Director of Point-of-Care Testing and Associate Director of Chemical Pathology at U-M. His academic focus is at the interface of clinical informatics and health services research, using decision analytic approaches to model and improve the impact of laboratory medicine. This has included research modeling the impact of different testing algorithms on health outcomes, mining the electronic medical record to derive new clinical laboratory knowledge, and laboratory capacity and quality improvement of sub-Saharan African laboratories. Dr. Schroeder’s work involving diagnostic capacity in low- and middle-income countries has included a methodology for creating an Essential Diagnostics List to accompany the World Health Organization Essential Medicines List, a project to develop an on-demand laboratory specimen courier network in Ghana, and a large-scale study to map, model, and design an optimized Ghanaian tiered laboratory network
- Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of California at San Diego
- M.D., University of California at San Diego
- B.A., Physics, University of Pennsylvania