Prof Lee Schroeder

Dr. Lee Schroeder is Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Michigan where he is Director of Point-of-Care Testing, Associate Director of Chemical Pathology, and is co-chair of the Laboratory Stewardship Sub-Committee.

 Dr. Schroeder received his MD/PhD at the University of California, San Diego in 2011, and completed his pathology residency at Stanford University in 2014.

 Dr. Schroeder’s academic focus is at the interface of clinical informatics and health services research, using decision analytic approaches to improve the impact of laboratory medicine. This has included landscaping studies of laboratory capacity and quality of sub-Saharan African laboratories. With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Dr. Schroeder’s work has focused on laboratory networks within the tiered health system. This includes a project to develop an online service marketplace for the delivery of laboratory specimens within the laboratory network in northern Ghana, and a country-level study to survey, map, model, and optimize the Ghanaian tiered laboratory network for several diseases of public health importance. Dr. Schroeder is co-author of the report being written by Lancet Commission on Diagnostics, and is part of the program evaluation team of the Africa Health Diagnostics Platform, a private-public partnership initiative of the European Investment Bank and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Schroeder has published multiple articles on the WHO Essential Diagnostics List and maintains a relational database of diagnostics indicated for use of the WHO Essential Medicines List.