Philip S. Schoenfeld, MD, MSEd, MSc (Epi), is currently Chief (Emeritus) of the Gastroenterology Section at the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan and Editor-in-Chief of Evidence-Based GI: An ACG Publication. Dr. Schoenfeld completed his BA degree, his MD degree, and his MSc in Medical Education at the University of Pennsylvania as well as his Master’s in Clinical Epidemiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. His education was funded by a US Navy Health Professions Scholarship, he completed his internal medicine residency at the Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia, followed by gastroenterology fellowship at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Schoenfeld served in the US Navy Medical Corps from 1989 through 2000, and his duties included serving as the staff gastroenterologist on the USNS Comfort, which is a US Navy hospital ship, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, and Director of Gastrointestinal Research at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and completed his service in 2000 with the rank of Commander.
From 2000-2016, he served as Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan School of Medicine where he served as Founding Director/Principal Investigator of their NIH T32-funded Training Program in GI Epidemiology as well as serving as Interim Chief of the Gastroenterology Section at the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center. From 2016-19, he served as Chief of the Gastroenterology Section at the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, where he continues to work as a Research Scientist.

Dr. Schoenfeld’s leadership positions include Chair-Education Committee of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), Member-AGA Governing Board, Chair-Clinical Practice Section of AGA Council, and Course Director of the AGA Spring Postgraduate Course at Digestive Disease Week and the AGA Postgraduate Course at the World Congress of Gastroenterology.. Dr. Schoenfeld served as an Associate Editor of Gastroenterology (2003-09), Associate Editor of the American Journal of Gastroenterology (2011-16), and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Dr. Schoenfeld has published over 250 original research studies, editorials, book chapters, and abstracts. His original research studies have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and American Journal of Gastroenterology. He has co-authored the American College of Gastroenterology guidelines on Irritable Bowel Syndrome (ACG), Chronic Idiopathic Constipation (ACG), Colorectal Cancer Screening (ACG), and the multi-society (ACG/ASGE) position statement on Quality Indicators in Colonoscopy, and he has been invited to give more than 150 lectures at national and international gastroenterology and internal medicine meetings as well as gastroenterology and internal medicine grand rounds at academic medical centers.