Dr. Schootman is Professor and Vice-Chair for Mentoring and Innovation in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Co-Director of the Workforce Development Core of the Translational Research Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. His research focuses on various aspects of epidemiology using advanced epidemiological methods, including geographic information systems and multilevel models, to examine the effect of neighborhood conditions on various health outcomes. He has been the principal investigator of several NIH grants. He has mentored numerous early-career faculty.