He completed his medical school, psychiatry residency, and geriatric psychiatry fellowship at UTHSCSA. Dr. Schillerstrom is the Director of Psychiatry Residency Training. Dr. Schillerstrom established and directs the UTHSCSA Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic that specializes in cognitive impairments and depression in elders. This clinic serves as an interdisciplinary training site for medical students, psychiatry residents, pain medicine fellows, and nurse practitioners. In addition, Dr. Schillerstrom is a primary psychiatry consultant for Texas Region 8 Adult Protective Services (APS) where he performs forensic psychiatry evaluations and studies cognitive correlates of decisional incapacity, self-neglect, and financial exploitation in vulnerable elders.