Dr Fritz H. Schröder

Born in Kassel, 1937, Fritz H. Schröder studies Medicine in Hamburg, Marburg, and at the University of Saarbrücken. He completed his Urological training in Homburg/Saar and in Los Angeles in 1971. He wrote his PhD-thesis in 1972 on “Endocrinological and morphological studies of prostatic tumors in vitro”. Afterwards he did a research fellowship with the National Kidney Foundation USA in San Diego. From 1972 till 1976 Schröder was Associated Professor of Urology at the University of Würzburg. From 1977 till 2001 he conducted the Department of Urology Erasmus University and Academic Hospital Rotterdam, the Netherlands as Professor and Chairman. Professor Schröder functions as the international coordinator of the European Randomized study of Screening for Prostate Cancer.

Fritz H. Schröder is author and co-author of more than 600 peer reviewed publications, 197 book chapters, editor of 21 monographs and recipient of numerous research grants in the United States, Germany, The Netherlands, and at a European level. Research activities concentrate on clinical and experimental aspects of oncological urology.