Dr. Lee Schroeder is Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Michigan where he is Director of Point-of-Care Testing and Associate Director of Chemical Pathology.

Lee received his MD/PhD at the University of California, San Diego in 2011, and his pathology training at Stanford University in 2014. He is a member of the chemistry resource committee of the College of American Pathologists.

Lee’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 focuses 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. Lee also has established and maintains a database of diagnostics indicated for use of the World Health Organization Essential Medicines List and select national lists.