Edward L. Schneider
Edward L. Schneider, M.D., is a professor of gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and a professor of medicine at the USC School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in biological sciences and molecular biology.
He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and went on to graduate cum laude from the Boston University School of Medicine. Upon completion of medical school, Schneider received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in May 1990. In 1986, Schneider joined the faculty at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. Previously he was the deputy director of the National Institute on Aging and the Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging.
Schneider researches molecular genetic aspects of cellular aging, DNA damage and repair with aging, and health care costs of an aging population. He sits on the editorial boards of more than half a dozen journals and is the former holder of the William and Sylvia Kugel Chair of Gerontology.
He is the co-author of What the Doctor Hasn’t Told You and What the Heath Store Clerk Doesn’t Know, with Leigh Ann Hirschman. Schneider is also the author of AgeLess: Take Control of Your Age and Stay Youthful for Life.