Schneider to present Withers Lecture

David Schneider, MD, professor and chair of Family and Community Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, will present the Department of Family and Community Medicine’s 2024 Henry W. Withers Lectureship in Family Medicine April 10.

Schneider will present on “The Future of Family Medicine: Is it time to restructure how we practice?” from 1-2 p.m. in MSB 2.135 and virtually via Zoom. The Zoom meeting number and password are:

Meeting Number: 939 8382 4226
Password: 067800

Schneider has been in academic family medicine for over 30 years and has run academic programs and federally funded training grants throughout his career. He has researched and taught about violence and toxic stress and its adverse impact on health. Schneider has also conducted research on non-malignant chronic pain and the effects of chronic pain and narcotic use on the doctor-patient relationship.

Prior to joining UT Southwestern, Schneider was professor and chair of Family and Community Medicine at Saint Louis University, where he greatly expanded the department, established an NIH-ranked research program in the department, and created a new residency focused on the care of the urban underserved in the community. While at The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, he served as director of the Family Medicine Clerkship for medical students, the Family Medicine Residency director, and vice chair for Education. He was also co-director of the Center for Violence Prevention, a CDC-funded center.

Schneider is the immediate past president and current chair of the board of directors of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine, a past president of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, was the founding president of the Academy on Violence and Abuse, and was chair of the National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse.

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