Schiller, Lawrence Adjunct Clinical Professor

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Schiller was born in Philadelphia and attended Pennsylvania State University and Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He completed his Internal Medicine training at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia and then served as Chief Resident there. He spent the next two years in Belgium as a Major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, where he was decorated with the US Army Commendation Medal. Dr. Schiller then moved to Texas for training in Gastroenterology at Southwestern Medical School and the Dallas VA Medical Center. He stayed on the faculty at the Medical School and was an attending physician at the Dallas VA Hospital for five years.

He moved to Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas in 1985 to continue research activities with Dr. John Fordtran, and has been there ever since, lately as an Attending Physician and Chairman of the Institutional Review Board for Human Subject Protection at Baylor Scott & White Health. Dr. Schiller has published 110 papers and 73 book chapters dealing with gastric physiology, intestinal transport, diarrheal diseases and motility disorders. He was involved with patient care until his retirement in 2016 as a founding partner of Digestive Health Associates of Texas, at one time one of the largest single-specialty private gastroenterology practices in America.

Since his retirement from direct patient care, he has continued to be involved in the education of medical students, residents, and fellows as Clinical Professor in the Department of Medical Education at Texas A&M University School of Medicine, Dallas Campus. He served as Program Director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship at Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas for 24 years and trained 38 fellows who have gone on to successful careers. Dr. Schiller has won three fellow teaching awards at UT Southwestern and Baylor and the prestigious Ralph Thompsett Award for Excellence in Medical Education at Baylor. He has been elected to fellowship in the American College of Physicians and mastership in the American College of Gastroenterology. He has served as President of the Texas Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy and President of the American College of Gastroenterology.