Dr. Schaeffer is an associate professor in the department of pathology & laboratory medicine at University of British Columbia and the head of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), where he practices as a gastrointestinal pathologist. Dr. Schaeffer obtained his medical degree from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. After a residency program in anatomical pathology in Vancouver, he completed his gastrointestinal pathology fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. He is the co-director of Pancreas Centre BC and the Pancreatic Cancer research chair at Vancouver General Hospital.
