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Lawrence R. Schiller, MD, MACG (he/him/his)

Clinical Professor of Medical Education, Texas A&M Dallas Campus
Baylor Scott & White Research Institute
Dallas, TX

Lawrence R. Schiller, MD, MACG, 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 in the US Army Medical Corps for 2 years. Dr. Schiller moved to Texas in 1978 for training in gastroenterology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and then stayed on the faculty at the medical school and was an attending physician at the Dallas VA hospital for 5 years. He moved to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas in 1985 to continue research activities with John Fordtran, MD, and has been there ever since. Dr. Schiller was involved with patient care as a founding partner of Digestive Health Associates of Texas, then one of the largest single-specialty gastroenterology practices in America. He was Program Director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship at Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas for 25 years, and remains as Chairman of the Institutional Review Boards for Human Subject Protection at Baylor as well as Professor of Medical Education at Texas A&M University School of Medicine, Dallas Campus. He has been elected to Fellowship in the American College of Physicians and Mastership in the American College of Gastroenterology, and served as President of the ACG (2011-2012). Dr. Schiller has published over 100 papers and more than 70 book chapters dealing with gastric physiology, intestinal transport, and diarrheal diseases. He won two fellow teaching awards while at Southwestern and the Ralph Tompsett Award for Excellence in Medical Education at Baylor. He served as President of the Texas Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy and received the Marcel Patterson-Robert Nelson Award for service to the Society in 2007. He received the American Gastroenterological Association Distinguished Clinician Award in 2013.

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