Robert A. Schwartz MD
Dermatology is headed by Professor Robert A. Schwartz, an internationally renowned dermatologist. He is the founding director of dermatology, establishing the first full-time dermatology program in New Jersey. In 1978 he first described florid cutaneous papillomatosis (Schwartz-Burgess syndrome), a marker of internal cancer. In 1982 Professor Schwartz described acral acanthotic anomaly (acral acanthosis nigricans), a common disorder in healthy African-Americans. In 1981 he was published one of the three original descriptions of Kaposi's sarcoma in a patient with the disorder later known as AIDS when he on the faculty of the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Schwartz is board certified in Dermatology and in Diagnostic and Laboratory Immunology. His book, Skin Cancer: Recognition and Management, published originally by Springer-Verlag, is now in a second edition published 2008 by Wiley-Blackwell. His latest book entitles Kaposi's Sarcoma is now in preperacion, He has also written or edited 10 monographs, and is the author of over 250 book chapters, 450 articles, and 150 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 is an honorary member of the Bulgarian, Czech, Iranian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, and Yugoslavian national Dermatologic Societies. He most recently became an honorary member of the Bolivarian Dermatology Society (Colombia, South America).
He is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, spent his four undergraduate years at the University of California at Berkeley, graduating with a BA in political science in 1969. He remained at UC Berkeley to earn a Master of Public Heath 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. He advanced in academia, from the University of Arizona and the University of California at San Francisco to the 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, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the New Jersey Medical School. We was elected faculty president twice, and twice was chairman of the medical school committee on appointments and promotions, for times president of Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, 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 anually as “Castle Connolly Top Doctors: New York Metro Area”, through 2009.
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 50 th Congress of the Japanese Dermatologic Society in Nagoya (1999), at the 41 st Italian National Dermatology Congress in Capri, Italy (2003) at the 9 th International Congress of Dermatology in Beijing, China (2004), the 5 th Symposium of the Korean Dermatopathology Society at Korea Univ. Seoul (2005), the 33 rd Annual Society for Cutaneous Ultrastructural Research meeting in Warsaw (2007), the combined Czech and Slovak National Dermatology Congress in Bratislava (2007), 8 th Iranian Congress of Dermatology (2008), 8 th National Congress Bulgarian Dermatologic Society (2008), and the XXVII Colombian Congress of Dermatology (2008). He was President of the Dermatology Section of the New York Academy of Medicine (2004-2005), and is a recipient of the prestigious Academia Medica Wratislaviensis Polonia Gold Medal, Awarded by University Rector Magnificus, Medical University of Wroclaw (Breslau), 2007. He was also awarded the Memorial Medal of the Warsaw Dermatologic Society (Poland), 2001, and the Hieronymus Fracastorus Medal of the Italian Dermatologic Society, 2003. Professor Schwartz is currently Editor of the Acta Dermatovenerologica Alpina, Pannonica et Adriatica. Professor Schwartz is also deputy of Mycoses. He is an assistant editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, and an Associate Editor of Cutis and Acta Dermatovenerologica Croatica, a section editor of the Journal of Surgical Oncology. He was a contibuting editor of Arizona Medicine. Professor Schwartz is a consulting editor of Dermatologic Surgery. He is a manging editor of the online medical textbook, eMedicine Dermatology. He is a member of the editorial boards of numerous dermatology journals, including the International Journal of Dermatology, the Swiss journal Dermatology, Journal of Medicine, American Family Physician, New York Medical Quorterly (1987-1990), Chronica Dermatologica (1996-1999), Res Comm Molecul Pathol Pharmacol, Postepy Dermatologiczne, Medical Mycology, Dermatol Klinichna, Journal of the European Academy of Dermatogy and Venerology, Cesko-Slovenská Dermatologia, Dermatol Estet, Ukrainian Journal of Dermatology and Venerology, Iranian Journal of Dermatology, Serbian Journal of Dermatology, Indian Journal of Dermatology, Indian Journal Dermatology and Venereology and Leprosy and Giornale Italiano Dermatologia and Venereogica, the oldest journal of dermatology.