Bryce Schroeder, MD, PhD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, with a minor in Chemistry. California State University, Chico. 2007-2010.
PhD, Stony Brook University Biomedical Engineering graduate program. 2014-2018. Advanced to candidacy 2017. Defended thesis successfully 2018.
MD, Stony Brook University School of Medicine. 2012-2020.

Work and Teaching Experience

• Fellow Physician at Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, 2023-Present
• Resident Physician at Stony Brook Children's Hospital, 2020-2023 (ABP Board Certified in Pediatrics, 2023)
• Assistant Physician at Stony Brook University Hospital during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
• Co-founded Gnostic Instruments, Inc, a scientific instrumentation consultancy, in 2017.
• Teaching Assistant for "Biophotonics," Spring 2017
• IRTA Fellow, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Biostatistics Branch. 2011-2012
• NIH Summers of Discovery, 2009
• California Department of Transportation, Student Assistant, 2008

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Priscila Villalba-Davila, Stephanie Aronson, Jessica Lat, Cassandra Charles, Bryce Schroeder, Meredith Pittman, Vivian Tang, Thomas Wallach. Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with significant elevations to fecal calprotectin, systemic inflammatory markers. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 2025. Vol. 80, Issue 4, 617-622.
• Xuanwen Hua, Changliang Guo, Jian Wang, Deborah Kim-Holzapfel, Bryce Schroeder, Wenhao Liu, Junhua Yuan, Jarrod French, Shu Jia. Depth-extended, high-resolution fluorescence microscopy: whole-cell imaging with double-ring phase (DRiP) modulation. Biomedical Optics Express, 2019. Vol 10, Issue 1. pp 200-214.
• Haoyu Li, Changliang Guo, Deborah Kim-Holzapfel, Weiyi Li, Yelena Altshuller, Bryce Schroeder, Wenhao Liu, Yizhi Meng, Jarrod French, Ken-Ichi Takemaru, Michael Frohman, Shu Jia. Fast, volumetric live-cell imaging using high-resolution light-field microscopy. Biomedical Optics Express, 2019. Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp. 29-49.
• Sravan Munagavalasa*, Bryce Schroeder*, Xuanwen Hua, Shu Jia. Spatial and spectral imaging of point-spread functions using a spatial light modulator. Optics Communications, 2017.
• Bryce Schroeder, Zhen H. Zhu, Changliang Guo, Shu Jia. Engineering and Optimization of Quasi-Nondiffracting Helicon-Like Beams With an Evolutionary Algorithm. IEEE Photonics Journal, May 2017
• Gregory Kirschen, Jia Shen, Mu Tian, Bryce Schroeder, Jia Wang, Guoming Man, Song Wu, and Shaoyu Ge. Active dentate granule cells encode experience to promote the addition of adult-born hippocampal neurons. Journal of Neuroscience, April 2017
• Haoyu Li, Changliang Guo, Inbarasan Muniraj, Bryce Schroeder, John Sheridan, and Shu Jia. Volumetric Light-Field Encryption at the Microscopic Scale. Scientific Reports, 2017.
• Schroeder B, Jia S. Frequency analysis of a self-bending point spread function for 3D localization-based optical microscopy. Optics Letters, 2015.
• Huang W*, Loganantharaj R*, Schroeder B*, Fargo D, Li L. PAVIS: a tool for Peak Annotation and Visualization. Bioinformatics, 2013.

(*co-first-authors)

Activity at Academic Meetings

• Bryce Schroeder, Thomas Wallach. Evaluating Multilingual Large Language Models for the GI Clinic. ESPGHAN Annual Meeting, 2025 (Forthcoming).
• Bryce Schroeder, Zhen H. Zhu, Changliang Guo, Shu Jia. Evolutionary Optimization of Nondiffracting Helicon Beams. Optical Society of America, Frontiers in Optics, September 2017.
• Bryce Schroeder, Zhen H. Zhu, Changliang Guo, Shu Jia. Evolutionary Optimization of Nondiffracting Helicon Beams. Optical Society of America, Mathematics in Imaging, June 2017.
• Schroeder B, Munagavalasa S, Jia S. Frequency Analysis for 3D Localization-based Optical Microscopy. Optical Society of America, Frontiers in Optics, October 2015.
• Shah C, Schroeder B, Mehta M. Perfluorocarbon-Balanced Salt Solution Interface Deflects Intraocular Foreign Bodies. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, June 2015, Vol. 56, 5104.
• Schroeder B, Li L. Program for Automatic Annotation of Genomic Loci using KnownGene and Other Data. Poster at Genome Informatics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2011.
• Schroeder B. NALA: A Domain-Specific Language for Computational Linguistics. Talk at the Student Research Competition, CSU Los Angeles, 2009.

Awards

• Highest In-Training Exam Score, Stony Brook Children's Hospital, Pediatrics Residency, 2023
• Best Talk, Medical Scientist Training Program Annual Retreat, 2017.
• Best Oral Presentation Award, Biomedical Engineering Annual Graduate Research Day, SUNY Stony Brook, 2017.
• Best Poster Presentation Award, Biomedical Engineering Annual Graduate Research Day, SUNY Stony Brook, 2016.
• Best Talk, Medical Scientist Training Program Annual Retreat, 2015.
• Best Poster Presentation Award, Biomedical Engineering Annual Graduate Research Day, SUNY Stony Brook, 2015.
• Lt. Robert Merton Rawlins Merit Award, CSU Chico, 2009.
• Member of the Computer Science honor society, Upsilon Pi Epsilon.

Most-developed Skills

Scientific and systems programming, computational science, machine learning. Open-source/Free software applications. Instrumentation electronics and optical design. Additive manufacturing. Point-spread function engineering for imaging and localization. Murine rodent husbandry.

Certifications

• Licensed Physician and Surgeon, State of Connecticut (Inactive)
• Board Certified by the American Academy of Pediatrics, 2023-present.
• EPA 608 Universal Technician.
• Amateur Radio Operator, Technician class.