Steven A Schroeder, M.D., is a distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), where he also heads the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center. Between 1990 and 2002, he was President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. During his term of office, the Foundation’s assets grew from $2.6 billion to over $8 billion 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 graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Medical School, and trained in internal medicine at the Harvard Medical Services 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 founding medical director of a university-sponsored HMO, and while at UCSF, he founded its division of general internal medicine. He has published extensively in the fields of clinical medicine, health care financing and organization, prevention, public health, and the work force. He currently serves as chairman of the American Legacy Foundation and of the International Review Committee of the Ben Gurion School of Medicine, and is a member of the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine, The Harvard Overseers, the Save Ellis Island Foundation, and the Council of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient of six honorary doctoral degrees.