Bob Schaaf

Robert Schaaf (born January 4, 1957) is a doctor, a director of the Missouri Doctors Mutual Insurance Co., and a Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives. He resides in St. Joseph, Missouri, with his wife Deborah Schoenlaub, and their two children, Robert and Renee.

He was born in 1957 in St. Louis, Missouri, moving to St. Joseph as a youth. He graduated from Central High School in St. Joseph in 1975. He went on to Missouri Western State College, where he earned a B.S. in mathematics in 1979, and St. Louis University School of Medicine, where he earned an M.D. in 1983. He married Deborah that same year.

He is a member of the Buchanan County Medical Society (past president), the Missouri State Medical Association (counselor), the Missouri State Medical Foundation Board, Heartland Regional Medical Center Department of Family Practice (past chair), Missouri Pilot's Association, the Farm Bureau, the St. Joseph and Savannah Area Chambers of Commerce, and the Missouri Infection Control Advisory Board.

He was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2002, winning reelection in 2004. He currently sits on the following committees:
 * Health Care Policy (vice chair),
 * Appropriations - Public Safety and Corrections, and
 * Professional Registration and Licensing.