Robert A. Schwartz - Academic Career

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.