Career
He held the position of Chair of the 1988 American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision. Doctor Schoen held positions at Children"s Hospital of the East Bay in Oakland, California, and the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, California and is Board-certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology, and has practiced Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology in Oakland, California for 46 years. Doctor Schoen was Chief of Pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland for 24 years.
The Medical Board of California shows that his current license will expire at the end of August, 2017.
He is listed as using the Voluntary Service fee exemption which is tantamount to retired status. His address of record is a residence in Richmond, California.
Schoen maintained Medicirc.org, an online resource in which he discussed what he perceives as benefits of circumcision.
lieutenant went dead at the end of 2012. Interviewed in the Eastbay Express (2000), he states, "Circumcision is one of the best health insurance policies you can give a son.
A circumcised boy has a lifetime advantage over an uncircumcised one."
Schoen"s most recent book Edgar Schoen, Doctor of Medicine on Circumcision is described by its publisher as a medically authoritative book on circumcision.
Doctor Schoen has also written verses about circumcision in the American Journal of Diseases in Children (1987)
In a Boston Globe article, Doctor Schoen says, concerning the Alumni Admissions Program"s decision to not advocate circumcision, "lieutenant’s highly biased". The 1989 report he oversaw stated that circumcision reduced the risks of urinary tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases. Doctor Schoen has been critical of genital integrity organizations, saying that they have been a misguided influence on parents.
Doctor Schoen"s position that routine circumcision has benefits that outweigh the risks is contradictory to the positions of several pediatrics organizations.
The official policy statements of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Canadian Paediatric Society and The Royal Australasian College of Physicians all contradict Doctor Schoen"s position."
On his website, there is also a disclaimer that "The opinions of Doctor Schoen do not represent the position or policy of any organization."
Doctor Schoen"s peer-reviewed articles have also received criticism. Doctor Schoen has been widely criticized for denying the importance of childhood lead poisoning including from tetraethyllead, challenging the lead screening recommendations of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) & American Academy of Pediatrics and attacking Doctor Herbert Needleman.
