Robert A. Schwartz

Robert A. Schwartz
FRCP Edin
Member of the Rutgers University Board of Trustees
Assumed office
July 1, 2014 1
Preceded by Asha Samant
Personal details
Born Robert Allen Schwartz
(1947-06-30) June 30, 1947
Oakland, California, U.S.
Spouse(s) Camila Krysicka Janniger
(m. 1984–present)
Children Edmund Janniger
Residence Englewood, New Jersey
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley (BA)
University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health (MPH)
New York Medical College (MD)
Profession Physician
Biomedical researcher
University professor
Website Faculty profile
1. As Faculty Representative[1]

Robert Allen Schwartz FRCP Edin (born June 30, 1947) is an American physician, biomedical researcher, and university professor. He is Professor and Head of Dermatology, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Visiting Professor and Scholar of Public Affairs and Administration at the Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration, and serves on the Rutgers University Board of Trustees. He has made seminal contributions to medicine, including the discovery of AIDS-associated Kaposi sarcoma (KS-AIDS) and the Schwartz-Burgess syndrome.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1969, a Master of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health in 1970, and a Doctor of Medicine at the New York Medical College in 1974, from which he graduated at the top of his class as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He trained in dermatology at the University of Cincinnati and at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. He advanced in academia, from the University of Arizona and the University of California, San Francisco, to the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, where in 1983 he became the first permanent head of dermatology, establishing a dermatology residency program in 1984.

In 1981 Schwartz led one of the three groups that first described AIDS-associated Kaposi sarcoma (KS-AIDS). In 1978 he first described florid cutaneous papillomatosis. Schwartz is credited with the clinical description of new subtypes of Kaposi's sarcoma: telangiectatic Kaposi's sarcoma, keloidal Kaposi's sarcoma and ecchymotic Kaposi’s sarcoma. In 1981 he first described acral acanthotic anomaly (acral acanthosis nigricans). In 1980 Edmund Klein, Schwartz and associates published in Cancer one of the first effective treatments of Kaposi’s sarcoma, a type of cancer that became more frequent as the AIDS epidemic unfolded.

Schwartz has authored several books, including Skin Cancer: Recognition and Management, a leading book on cutaneous oncology currently in its second edition. Schwartz has also written 10 monographs, and is the author of over 250 book chapters, 500 articles, and 200 other publications. He has lectured in more than 30 different countries and, for eighteen consecutive years, was on the faculty of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology. Schwartz has been elected an honorary member of more than 20 national dermatologic societies. He has received multiple honorary doctorates.

Early life and education

Robert Allen Schwartz was born on June 30, 1947 in Oakland, California. He spent his four undergraduate years at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1969. He remained there to earn a Master of Public Health degree in 1970 from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. He then matriculated into the New York Medical College in Manhattan, from which he graduated as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 1974. He trained in dermatology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. He later completed a fellowship in dermatopathology. Schwartz is board certified in dermatology and in diagnostic and laboratory immunology.

Academic career

Schwartz advanced in academia, from the University of Arizona and the University of California, San Francisco to the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 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, and professor of preventive medicine and community health at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He is a Visiting Professor and Scholar of Public Affairs and Administration at the Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration.[2] In 2014 Schwartz began serving on the Rutgers University Board of Trustees.[1]

Schwartz is also in his second term as President of the World Health Academy, serving from 2011 to 2012 and 2014 to present, and has been active on National Institutes of Health study sections since 2004.[3] Schwartz has served as Faculty President of the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in 1993 and 1995 and as Chairman of its Committee on Appointments and Promotions twice.

He has been involved in many campus activities, including as Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society chapter president and Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Society chapter councilor. He received the Faculty of the Year Award at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in 2002 and has been chosen as Top Doctor multiple times by New York Magazine, Inside Jersey, and Castle-Conolly Guide to Best Physicians. A two-time past president of the Dermatology Section of the New York Academy of Medicine, he has been elected to a second five-year term on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Dermatology.

Schwartz has authored several books, most recently Skin Cancer: Recognition and Management, a leading book on cutaneous oncology currently in its second edition. He has written or edited 10 monographs, and is the author of over 250 book chapters, 500 articles, and 200 other publications. Many of these are in the area of dermatologic oncology, where he has had a special interest in epidermal tumors, paraneoplastic syndromes, and Kaposi’s sarcoma. He has published more than 50 full articles on Kaposi’s sarcoma since 1978, including one of the first three reports of KS-AIDS in 1981.[4][5][6][7] He was the first to describe many Kaposi's sarcoma morphologic variants.[8][9][10][11] In 1978 he first described florid cutaneous papillomatosis.[12] In 1981 he discovered and described acral acanthosis nigricans.[13][14][15] In 1994 he devised the commonly-accepted classification for acanthosis nigricans.[16][17]

Editorial activity

He has served as editor of the Acta Dermatovenerologica Alpina Panonica Adriatica, assistant editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, associate editor of Cutis and Acta Dermatovenerologica Croatica, deputy editor of Mycoses, contributing editor of Dermatologic Surgery, and section editor of the Journal of Surgical Oncology. He is a member of the editorial boards of numerous journals, including American Family Physician, Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, International Journal of Dermatology, Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Indian Journal of Dermatology, Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia, Postępy Dermatologii i Alergologii, Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, and Cesko-Slovenská Dermatologie.

Lectureships

He has lectured in more than 30 different countries. In addition, Schwartz has been on the faculty of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology for eighteen consecutive years. He has served as a featured speaker at the 25th Jubilee 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, Japan (1999), at the 41st Italian National Dermatology Congress in Capri, Italy (2003), at the 9th International Congress of Dermatology in Beijing, China (2004), at the 5th Symposium of the Korean Dermatopathology Society at Korea University in Seoul, Korea (2005), at the 33rd Annual Society for Cutaneous Ultrastructural Research Conference in Warsaw, Poland (2006), at the combined Czech and Slovak National Dermatology Congress in Bratislava, Slovakia (2006), at the 8th Iranian Congress of Dermatology (2008) in Tehran, Iran, 8th National Congress Bulgarian Dermatologic Society in Albena, Bulgaria (2008), at the 27th Congress of Colombian Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery in Cali, Colombia (2008), at the 15th Jornada de Dermatología Clínica Alemana – Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile (2009), at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Korean Dermatological Association in Kyeongju, Korea (2010), at the 130th Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association in New York City (2010), at the Sociedad Dermatólogos de Puerto Rico in Vieques, Puerto Rico (2010), at the 1st Summer Meeting of the Brazilian Society of Dermatology in Salvador, Bahia (2010), at the Brazilian Society of Dermatology Conference held at the State University of the Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil (2010), at the 7th Asociación Dermatológica del Caribe Congreso Internacional in Cartagena, Colombia (2011), at the 2nd Munich International Summer Academy of Practical Dermatology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany (2011), at the 1st Congress of Montenegrin Dermatology in Budva, Montenegro (2011), at the 4th Russian Congress of Dermatology in St. Petersburg, Russia (2011), at the 66th Annual Congress of the Brazilian Society of Dermatology in Florianópolis, Brazil (2011), at the 47th Annual Reunión of the Sociedad Venezolana de Dermatología in Valencia, Venezuela (2011), at the 21st Annual Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology in Prague, Czech Republic (2012), at the World Health Academy 1st International Winter Consensus Conference in Kitzbühel, Austria (2012), at the 13th Pan Arab League Dermatology Congress at the Dead Sea, Jordan (2013), at the 1st Yemeni Congress of Dermatology in Sana’a, Yemen (2013), at the XXXI Reunión Annual de Dermatólogos Latinoamericanos in Punta del Este, Uruguay (2013), at the 3rd Euro-Asian Association of Dermatovenereologists Congress in Odessa, Ukraine (2013), at the 3rd Munich International Summer Academy of Practical Dermatology in Munich, Germany (2013), at the International Vilitigo Symposium in São Paulo, Brazil (2013), at the 12th International Gulf Cooperation Council Dermatology Conference in Kuwait City, Kuwait, at the 4th Annual Meeting of the National Society of Cutaneous Medicine in Las Vegas, Nevada (2014), at the Chinese Engineering, Science and Technology Symposium of the Chinese Medical Association in Hangzhou, China (2014), at the Bucharest Summer Academy of Dermatology in Bucharest, Romania (2014), at the XXII International Pigment Cell Conference in Singapore (2014), at the 10th International Conference of the Jordanian Society of Dermatology in Amman, Jordan (2014), at the 6th International Kuwait Pediatric Dermatology Symposium in Kuwait City, Kuwait (2014), at the 20th Ibero Latin American Congress of Dermatology in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2014), and at the 7th Pigment Cell Vitiligo Conference in Istanbul, Turkey (2014).

Visiting professorships

In 1999 he delivered the 23rd Eleanor H. Edlovitch Memorial Lecture at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Schwartz has served as the 1987 S. Robert Narins MD Visiting Professor at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the 2008 Raul Fleischmajer Memorial Visiting Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the 2010 Albert Neisser Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Wrocław Medical University, and the 2010 Robert Arman Berger Memorial Visiting Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Schwartz has also been visiting professor at the University of South Florida (1995), at the Medical University of Kaunas (1998), at the Medical University of Gdansk (1998), at the Lviv State Medical University (1999), at the Medical University of Bialystok (1999), at the University of Vilnius (1999), at the City University of Nagoya (1999), at the Otto von Guerke University (2000), at the Humboldt University (2001), at the University of Barcelona (2001), at the Charles University (2001), at the University of Malta (2002), at the University of Vienna (2002), at the University of Catania (2002, 2003), at the University of Ljubljana (2003), at the University of Maribor (2003), at the Ludwig Rydygier Medical University (2003), at the Pomeranian Medical University (2003), at Tulane University (2004), at the University of Palermo (2004), at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (2004), at the Jagiellonian University (2004), at the University of Mumbai (2004), at the King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College (2004), at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, (2004), at the Medical University of Łódź (1999, 2005, 2008), at the Chonbuk National University (2005), at Chonnam University (2005), at the University of Sassari (2005), at the Medical University of Lublin (2000, 2006), at the Cleveland Clinic (2006), at the University of California, Irvine (2006), at the United States Uniform Health Services University (2006), at the Wrocław Medical University (1998, 2003, 2007), at the University of Crete (2007), at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (2007), at the Shiraz University (2008), at the Isfahan University (2008), at the Archbishop Makarios III Medical Center (2008), at the Medical University of Poznan (2002, 2009), at the University of Naples 2nd Faculty (2009), at the University of Kuwait (2009), at the Medical College of Georgia (2010), at the Pusan National University (2010), at the Inje University (2010), at the University of Bari (2010), at the University of Florence (2011), at the University of Pisa (2011), at the Goa Medical College (2011), at the Tbilisi State Medical University (2012), at the Odessa National Medical University (2013), and at the Medical University of Warsaw (1992, 2000, 2006, 2008-2014).

Honors and awards

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A partial list of Schwartz's honors and awards.

Decorations

Orders and awards

Award or decoration Country Date Place Note Ref
Hieronymus Fracastorus Medal  Italy 2003 Capri Awarded at the 31st Italian National Congress. [2]
Academia Medica Wratislaviensis Polonia Medal  Poland 2007 Wrocław The highest award bestowed by Wrocław Medical University. [2]
Stefan G. Nicolau Medal  Romania 2008 Bucharest The highest award given by the Romanian Society of Dermatology. [2]
International Corresponding Membership in the Amazonian Academy of Medicine  Brazil 2010 Manaus [18]
Amazonian Academy of Medicine Medal  Brazil 2010 Manaus The highest award given by the Amazonian Academy of Medicine. [18]

Honorary

Honorary doctorates

Institution Degree Location Date Note Ref
Tbilisi Medical Academy Doctor of Science Georgia (country) Tbilisi, Georgia 2013 "for his important contributions to the field of medicine, including original work in the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and Kaposi's sarcoma." [19]
China Medical University hon. prof. China Shenyang, China 2012 Conferred by the CMU president in an official ceremony. [20]

Honorary memberships

Award or decoration Country Date Place Note Ref
Honorary membership in the Polish Dermatologic Society  Poland 1993
Honorary membership in the Lithuanian Society of Dermatovenereology  Lithuania 1998
Honorary membership in the Yugoslavian Association of Dermatology and Venereology  Yugoslavia 2001
Honorary membership in the Ukrainian Association of Dermatology and Venereology  Ukraine 2002
Honorary membership in the Latvian Association of Dermatology and Venereology  Latvia 2002
Honorary membership in the Slovenian Association of Dermatology and Venereology  Latvia 2003
Honorary membership in the Italian Society of Medical and Surgical Dermatology  Italy 2005
Honorary membership in the Association of Italian Hospital Dermatologists  Italy 2005
Honorary membership in the Czech Dermatologic Society  Czech Republic 2005
Honorary membership in the Slovak Dermatovenereologic Society  Slovakia 2006
Honorary membership in the Korean Dermatological Association  South Korea 2007
Honorary membership in the Romanian Society of Dermatology  Romania 2008
Honorary membership in the Bulgarian Society of Dermatology  Bulgaria 2008
Honorary membership in the Bolivarense Association of Dermatology  Colombia 2008
Honorary membership in the Slovak Dermatovenereologic Society  Slovakia 2006
Honorary membership in the Macedonian Dermatovenerologic Society  Macedonia 2009
Honorary membership in the Cosmetic Dermatology Society of India  India 2011
Honorary membership in the Montenegrin Dermatologic Society  Montenegro 2011
Honorary membership in the Society of Dermato-venereologists of Georgia  Georgia 2011
Honorary membership in the Tbilisi Dermato-venereologists Association  Georgia 2012
Honorary membership in the Georgian Association of Photodermatology and Skin Cancer  Georgia 2012
Honorary membership in the Kuwait Society of Dermatology  Kuwait 2012
Honorary membership in the German Dermatology Society  Germany 2013
Honorary membership in the Jordanian Society of Dematology, Venereology, and Dermatosurgery  Jordan 2013

Personal life

In 1984, Schwartz married Camila Krysicka, a noted dermatologist and academic. Their son Edmund Janniger is a student at the Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration and a Rutgers University Senator, and has been nominated as an advisor to Polish Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz.[21]

References

  1. 1 2 "Board of Trustees Membership Photos & Bios". Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Robert A. Schwartz". Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Our Leadership". World Health Academy. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  4. ↑ Borkovic, SP.; Schwartz, RA. (Dec 1981). "Kaposi's sarcoma presenting in the homosexual man -- a new and striking phenomenon!". Ariz Med 38 (12): 902–4. PMID 7332494.
  5. ↑ Hausen, Harald Zur (2006). "Rhadinoviruses". Infections Causing Human Cancer. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH.
  6. ↑ Frederick G. Drabell (1 January 2006). New Topics in Cancer Research. Nova Publishers. p. 136. ISBN 978-1-60021-155-3.
  7. ↑ Christine Curry (2008). Notch Signaling and Mitotic Catastrophe in Kaposi's Sarcoma Tumor Cells. ProQuest. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-109-90113-9.
  8. ↑ Snyder, RA.; Schwartz, RA. (Dec 1982). "Telangiectatic Kaposi's sarcoma. Occurrence in a patient with thymoma and myasthenia gravis receiving long-term immunosuppressive therapy.". Arch Dermatol 118 (12): 1020–1. doi:10.1001/archderm.118.12.1020. PMID 7149746.
  9. ↑ Schwartz, RA.; Kardashian, JF.; McNutt, NS.; Crain, WR.; Welch, KL.; Choy, SH. (Feb 1983). "Cutaneous angiosarcoma resembling anaplastic Kaposi's sarcoma in a homosexual man.". Cancer 51 (4): 721–6. doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19830215)51:4<721::aid-cncr2820510428>3.0.co;2-2. PMID 6681594.
  10. ↑ Schwartz, RA.; Spicer, MS.; Thomas, I.; Janniger, CK.; Lambert, WC. (Aug 1995). "Ecchymotic Kaposi's sarcoma.". Cutis 56 (2): 104–6. PMID 8536490.
  11. ↑ Schwartz, RA.; Spicer, MS.; Janniger, CK.; Cohen, PJ.; Melczer, MM.; Lambert, WC. (1994). "Keloidal Kaposi's sarcoma: report of three patients.". Dermatology 189 (3): 271–4. doi:10.1159/000246858. PMID 7949482.
  12. ↑ Chou, Che-Yi; Yeh, Shih-Wei (2012). "Multiple brownish warty papulonodules on left dorsal hand". Dermatologica Sinica 30 (2): 81–82. doi:10.1016/j.dsi.2011.10.004. ISSN 1027-8117.
  13. ↑ Walter H.C. Burgdorf; Otto Braun-Falco; Gerd Plewig; H. H. Wolff; Michael Landthaler (12 December 2008). Braun-Falco ́s Dermatology. Springer. pp. 1340–1347. ISBN 978-3-540-29312-5.
  14. ↑ Schwartz, RA. (Feb 2007). "Acral acanthosis nigricans (acral acanthotic anomaly).". J Am Acad Dermatol 56 (2): 349–50. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2006.09.027. PMID 17224380.
  15. ↑ Schwartz, RA. (Sep 1981). "Acral acanthotic anomaly (AAA)". J Am Acad Dermatol 5 (3): 345–6. doi:10.1016/S0190-9622(81)80155-7. PMID 7263979.
  16. ↑ Ophelia E. Dadzie; Antoine Petit; Andrew F. Alexis (2 January 2013). Ethnic Dermatology: Principles and Practice. John Wiley & Sons. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-118-49784-5.
  17. ↑ S. Sacchidanand; Shilpa K. (30 June 2013). Snapshots in Dermatology. JP Medical Ltd. p. 1. ISBN 978-93-5090-459-6.
  18. 1 2 Pecher, Simão (2011). "Médico estrangeiro é homenageado em Manaus". Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 15 (1).
  19. ↑ "Rutgers Professor Robert A. Schwartz Receives Honorary Doctorate from TMA". Tbilisi Medical Academy. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  20. ↑ Gao, Xing-Hua; Chen, Hong-Duo (2013). "Professor Robert A. Schwartz Awarded Title of Honorary Professor, China Medical University, Shenyang, November 20, 2012". International Journal of Dermatology 52 (2): 262–262. doi:10.1111/ijd.12131_2. ISSN 0011-9059.
  21. ↑ http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/20-letni-edmund-janniger-doradca-macierewicza-w-mon-kim-jest/p556es

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Preceded by
Asha Samant		 Member of the Rutgers University Board of Trustees
2014–present 		Incumbent
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