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Dr. Schnitzer will serve as Vice President and Associate Chief Medical Officer, sitting on the Clinical Leadership team and reporting to the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Dr. Donald S. Baim, M.D. In his new role, Dr. Schnitzer will be responsible for leading the medical input process for the Company's Endosurgery, Neurovascular and Neuromodulation businesses. He will also participate in the formulation and execution of technology strategies for both internal research and development, as well as external business development activities. In addition, he will oversee development and dissemination of scientifically based education materials relating these areas.
Dr. Schnitzer most recently has served as Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Visiting Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Pediatric Surgeon at Shriners Burns Hospital in Boston. He trained in medicine at Harvard Medical School and earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Schnitzer's major research interests are related to developmental biology of the lung and congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), and combat casualty care.
Dr. Schnitzer is a member of several national and international societies, including the American Surgical Association, the Association for Academic Surgery, the American Pediatric Surgical Association, the American Burn Association and the British Association of Pediatric Surgeons.
Dr. Schnitzer is also the surgical team leader of the National Disaster Medical System International Medical Surgical Response Team and was deployed to New York City on September 11, 2001 and Bam, Iran following a 2003 earthquake. In addition, Dr. Schnitzer represented the MGH in the Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, an inter-institutional consortium that seeks new technology solutions for unmet needs in various medical disciplines, where he worked alongside Dr. Baim who represented the Brigham and Women's Hospital until joining Boston Scientific in 2006.
"We are delighted to have Dr. Schnitzer joining our team," said Dr. Baim. "He is a senior clinician who brings a unique background to bear on our Clinical Sciences organization, and he will provide invaluable medical leadership for these critical business areas."
Boston Scientific is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices whose products are used in a broad range of interventional medical specialties.
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