ABOUT US

Former Advisory Council Member

Edward L. Schor, M.D.

Assistant Vice President
Child Development and Preventative Care
Commonwealth Fund

Edward L. Schor, M.D., is Assistant Vice President at The Commonwealth Fund, which is a private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy.  He leads the Fund's Child Development and Preventive Care program.  A pediatrician by training, Dr. Schor has held many important positions in pediatrics, health outcomes, and child development and pediatric care prior to joining the Fund at the beginning of 2002.  Most recently, he served as medical director for the Iowa Department of Public Health, Division of Family and Community Health.  Earlier in his career, Dr. Schor was director of the Functional Outcomes Program at the New England Medical Center and program director for Medical Education and Improving Functional Outcomes and Well-Being with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.  He has a special interest in the social determinants of child health and family functioning, and has done research and taught on child health status assessment and on the family and how it affects children's health.  He is editor of the book, Caring for Your School-Age Child, and has chaired both the Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption and Dependent care and the national Task Force on the Family for the American Academy of Pediatrics.  He also has served on the UCLA Advisory Board and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau Child Health Survey Technical Panel, consulted for the National Center for Infancy and Early Childhood Health Policy, and co-chaired the IHCI/National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality on the topic of improving health care for children in foster care.  He has been a member of the faculties of several major university medical schools and schools of public health.  In addition, he has served on the editorial boards of several pediatric journals.