Robert A. Schwartz

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name = Robert A. Schwartz
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profession = Doctor
specialism = Dermatologist
research_field = Florid cutaneous papillomatosis, Skin Cancer, Epidermal Keratinocyte Tumors
known_for = First to diagnose and describe Florid cutaneous papillomatosis, Author of
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education =New York Medical College - 1974
work_institutions = New Jersey Medical School
work_position = Professor and Chief of Dermatology, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, UMDNJ-NJMS
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Academia Medica Wratislaviensis Polonia Medal, Awarded by University Rector Magnificus, Medical University of Wroclaw,
*Hieronymus Fracastorus Medal, 41St Italian National Congress, Capri
*Best Doctors in New York New York Magazine from 1999 to 2001
*Best Doctors in New Jersey, New Jersey Monthly Magazine, 2001
*Top Doctors New York Metro Area
*Castle-Connolly Guide to Best Physicians, from 1997 to 2007
*Who’s Who in America, from 2001 to 2003
*Who’s Who in America, 58th edition, 2004
*Who’s Who in the East 1998 to 1999,
*Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare 1999
relations = Dan Seymour - Well known Warner Brothers actor

Robert A. Schwartz is Professor and Head of the Department of Dermatology at the New Jersey Medical School. He has published more than 50 full articles on Kaposi’s Sarcoma since 1978, including one of the three first reports of KS-AIDS in 1981 and has first described many Kaposi's sarcoma morphologic variants. He was the first to diagnose and describe the Florid cutaneous papillomatosis. The 2nd edition of his book, , has been published by Blackwell Publishing. He has also written or edited 10 monographs, and is the author of over 230 book chapters, 425 articles, and 130 other publications.

Education

Schwartz a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, spent his four undergraduate years at the University of California at Berkeley, graduating with a BA degree in political science in 1969. He remained at UC Berkeley to earn a MPH degree in medical administration in 1970. He then matriculated into New York Medical College in Manhattan, from which he graduated as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society in 1974. He trained in dermatology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and at Roswell Park Memorial Institute – State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine. He later completed a fellowship in dermatopathology.

Academic career

He advanced in academia, from the University of Arizona and the University of California at San Francisco to the New Jersey Medical School (UMDNJ), where in 1983 he became the first permanent head of dermatology, establishing a dermatology residency program in 1984. He is Professor and Head, Dermatology, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the New Jersey Medical School. He has been involved in many campus activities at the New Jersey Medical School, serving in a number of capacities, including faculty president twice, chairman of the medical school committee on appointments and promotions twice, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society chapter president four times, and twice as secretary of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Society chapter, which he currently heads as chapter councilor. He received the Faculty of the Year Award at New Jersey Medical School in 2002 and has been chosen as "Top Doc" multiple times. Schwartz is board certified in Dermatology and in Diagnostic and Laboratory Immunology. He has also written or edited 10 monographs, and is the author of over 200 book chapters, 400 articles, and 100 other publications. Many of these are in the area of dermatologic oncology, where he has had a special interest in epidermal tumors and Kaposi’s sarcoma since 1978. He has been elected an honorary member of the Italian, Polish, Latvian, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Yugoslavian, and Lithuanian national Dermatologic Societies, and is scheduled to receive honorary memberships in the Czech and Slovak national societies in June 2006. He has lectured widely, including eighteen consecutive years on the faculty of the annual meetings of the American Academy of Dermatology, as a featured speaker at the Jubilee 25th Congress of the Polish Dermatologic Association in Lódz, Poland (1995), at the 5th Annual Congress of the Caribbean Dermatologic Society in Bridgetown, Barbados (1996), at the 50th Congress of the Japanese Dermatologic Society in Nagoya (1999), at the 41st Italian National Dermatology Congress in Capri, Italy (2003) and at the 9th International Congress of Dermatology in Beijing, China (2004), and the 5th Symposium of the Korean Dermatopathology Society at Korea Univ. Seoul (2005). He will be a featured speaker in June 2006 at the 33rd Annual Society for Cutaneous Ultrastructural Research meeting in Warsaw, Poland and at the combined Czech and Slovak National Dermatology Congress in Bratislava. He is outgoing President of the Dermatology Section of the New York Academy of Medicine. He is a recipient of the Memorial Medal of the Warsaw Dermatologic Society (Poland), 2001, the University Medal awarded by the University President (Rector) of the Medical University of Wroclaw (Breslau), 2001, and the Hieronymus Fracastorus Medal of the Italian Dermatologic Society, 2003. Schwartz has been an Associate Editor of Dermatology (Basel) and assistant editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, and is currently an Associate Editor of both Cutis and Acta Dermatovenerologica Croatica. Contributing Editor of Dermatologic Surgery, and Consulting Editor of the Journal of Surgical Oncology. He serves as a managing editor of eMedicine Dermatology and eMedicine Pediatrics. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Acta Dermatovenerologica Croatica, Acta Dermatovenerologica (Ljubljana), American Family Physician, Cesko-Slovenská Dermatologie, Dermatologia Estetyczna, Dermatologia Kliniczna (Wroclaw), Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia, International Journal of Dermatology, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Mikologia Lekarska (Wroclaw), Postepy Dermatologii (Poznan), Research Communications in Molecular Pathology and Pharmacology, and the Ukrainian Journal of Dermatology and Venereology. He has been interviewed international on the BBC Channel Five, Italian and Polish television as well as on many local news stations.