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Robert A. Schwartz
Born	June 30, 1947 Oakland, California
Profession	Doctor
Institutions	New Jersey Medical School
Specialism	Dermatologist
Research	Schwartz-Burgess Syndrome, Skin Cancer, Epidermal Keratinocyte Tumors, Acral acanthosis nigricans
Known for	Discoverer of Schwartz-Burgess Syndrome and Acral acanthosis nigricans, Author of Skin Cancer: Recognition and Management
Education	New York Medical College - 1974
Notable prizes	*Academia Medica Wratislaviensis Polonia Medal 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 2008 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

Robert A. Schwartz (born June 30, 1947) is an American physician and the discoverer of the Schwartz-Burgess Syndrome.^[1][2][3] He is a professor and the Head of the Department of Dermatology at 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^[4] in 1981 and has first described many Kaposi's sarcoma morphologic variants^[5][6][7][8]. In 1978 he the discovered of florid cutaneous papillomatosis. In 1981 he discovered and described Acral acanthosis nigricans^{[9][10][11][12][13]}. The 2nd edition of his book, Skin Cancer: Recognition and Management, has been published by Blackwell Publishing. He has also written or edited 10 monographs, and is the author of over 250 book chapters, 450 articles, and 130 other publications.

Contents 1 Education 2 Academic career 2.1 Editorial Activity 2.2 Honors and Awards 2.3 Media Appearances 3 References

[edit] Education

Schwartz 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 Cancer Institute – State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine. He later completed a fellowship in dermatopathology.

[edit] 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 250 book chapters, 450 articles, and 130 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.

[edit] Editorial Activity

Schwartz was an Associate Editor of Dermatology (Basel) and currently is assistant editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, and 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.

[edit] Honors and Awards

He has been elected an honorary member of the Italian, Polish, Latvian, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Yugoslavian, Korean, Iranian^[14], Bulgarian, Romanian, 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. In 2007 he was a plenary speaker at the Congress of the European Society for Dermatology and Psychiatry. He received the Gold Academia Medica Wratislaviensis Polonia Medal, from University Rector Magnificus of the Medical University of Wroclaw. In 2008 he served as plenary speaker at the 8th Iranian Congress of Dermatology^[15], 8th National Congress Bulgarian Dermatologic Society ^[16], and 27th Congress of Colombian Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery ^[17]

[edit] Media Appearances

He was most recently interviewed international on the BBC Channel Five^[18], RAI and Telewizja Polska, TVN (Poland)^[19] as well as on local news stations.

[edit] References