Frederick J. Schoen, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Schoen is Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School (HMS), Director of 
Cardiac Pathology and Executive Vice-Chairman in the Department of Pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston. Schoen received a B.S.E. (Materials and Metallurgical Engineering) from the University of Michigan (1966), a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Cornell University (1970) and an M.D. from the University of Miami School of Medicine (1974). Following a Surgery internship, residency in Anatomic Pathology and fellowship in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Pathology, he joined the BWH medical staff and HMS faculty in 1980.
His research contributions have been in the areas of host-biomaterial interactions, structure-function-pathology correlations in heart valve substitutes and other cardiovascular prostheses, calcification of bioprosthetic tissues, cardiovascular tissue engineering, heart transplantation, and the pathology of animal models of human cardiovascular disease.
He has authored or co-authored over 400 scientific manuscripts in journals, authored the book Interventional and Surgical Cardiovascular Pathology: Clinical Correlations and Basic Principles (1989); and co-edited Biomaterials Science: An Introduction to Materials in Medicine (1996, and 2nd Edition 2004), and Cardiovascular Pathology, 3rd Edition (2001). He is Past-President of the Society For Biomaterials (SFB) and the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology (SCVP), and is currently President of the International Association for Applied Cardiovascular Biology (ISACB). He was Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and has received the SFB Clemson Award for Applied Biomaterials Research (1990), the SFB Founders (Lifetime Research Achievement in Biomaterials) Award (1999), and the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology Distinguished Achievement Award (2006).
He serves on many national and international advisory committees, grant review committees and editorial boards, and is consultant and scientific advisor to numerous medical device companies. Schoen has academic leadership responsibilities at BWH, HMS and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), and is an active teacher/director of courses in pathology, cardiovascular pathology, and biomaterials and tissue engineering at Harvard and MIT.
