Dr. Schmitz grew up in the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin and graduated from Kimberly High School in 1971. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle and recieved a B.S. degree in Zoology in 1976. After completing his Master of Science Degree in the Anatomy Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1982, Bob worked at the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) in the Division of Fishes for three years. In 1985, Dr. Schmitz began teaching Human Anatomy at the National College of Chiropractic. With the urging of Dr.Bob Johnson of the College of Charleston, he decided to pursue his doctoral degree at the Medical University of South Carolina in 1987 and defended his dissertation in 1993. Dr. Schmitz joined the Biology Faculty at UWSP in 1992.
