Dr. Schneider is Professor and Chairman of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He has been in academic family medicine for almost 30 years and has run academic programs and federally funded training grants throughout his career. He has researched and taught about violence toxic stress, and its adverse impact on health; and conducted research on non-malignant chronic pain, how to safely care for patients with chronic pain, and the effects of chronic pain and narcotic use on the doctor-patient relationship. Prior to joining UT Southwestern, he 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 care of the urban underserved in St. Louis, Missouri. While at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, he served as Director of the Family Medicine Clerkship for medical students, Family Medicine Residency Director and Vice Chair for Education. He was also Co-Director of their Center for Violence Prevention, a CDC funded center. He is 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.