Mark D. Schwartz, M.D.
Fellowship Year(s): 2009-2010
Profession: Physician
Specialty: Health Services Research, Internal Medicine, Primary Care
Fellowship Details:
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
House Committee on Ways and Means (Majority)
New York
At time of Fellowship
Mark D. Schwartz, MD, FACP is Associate Professor of Medicine at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. After studying medicine at Cornell University and training in internal medicine at NYU, Dr. Schwartz was awarded a Bowen-Brooks Fellowship by the New York Academy of Medicine to study medical education innovation in Israel and Holland, and then completed a General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Duke University. At NYU he was selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar. He has been a primary care physician in urban underserved settings for 20 years.
Dr. Schwartz has studied primary care workforce issues since the 1980’s and recently completed a national study of influences on student interest in internal medicine. His health services research focuses on how primary care workplace characteristics impact physician stress and burnout and, subsequently, quality of care and medical errors. He also leads a Veterans Administration study of how educational interventions for health professionals improve patient outcomes.
Since 1995, Dr. Schwartz has led NYU’s General Internal Medicine Fellowship Program and established its Master’s of Science in Medical Education program. He directs NYU’s NIH Clinical Research Training Program and leads its Master’s of Science in Clinical Investigation program. He also directs the Fellowship in Medicine and Public Health Research. NYU recently named him Director of Translational Research Education and Careers in its Clinical Translational Science Institute. The Association of Clinical Research Training awarded him its Distinguished Research Educator award in 2008. In his practice, educational leadership, research, and scholarship, Dr. Schwartz has focused on the need to improve health and health care of vulnerable, urban poor populations.
Current Info:
Professor, and Vice Chair for Education and Faculty Affairs
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Health Reform;Population Health;Social Determinants of Health
Since Fellowship:
My research focuses at the interface of health services research, primary care practice transformation, and health policy. I led a VA research team conducting epidemiologic studies of novel predictors of Type 2 diabetes among veterans. I recently led a NIDDK-funded R18 randomized trial of a community health worker intervention to prevent diabetes among those with prediabetes at VA NY Harbor and Bellevue Hospitals. I am Co-PI of an HRSA-funded project to transform primary care practice at Bellevue Hospital with a team training intervention. I recently led a VA-funded project; PROVE (Program of Research on Outcomes of VA Education), a controlled trial of panel management support and clinical microsystem education to improve outcomes among veterans with hypertension and smoking. And I was recently Co-PI of an AMA-funded project to integrate health system science education into the medical school curriculum at NYU School of Medicine.
I have 30+ years of educational leadership, having led NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s General Internal Medicine Fellowship Program since 1995. I directed NYU’s NIH Clinical Research Training Program and founded its Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation Program. I directed the CDC-funded Fellowship in Medicine and Public Health Research. I was founding Director of the Translational Research Education and Careers core in NYU’s Clinical Translational Science Institute. I have been PI of three HRSA-funded Faculty Development Programs in Primary Care grants. I am Co-PI of an AHRQ-funded T32 fellowship in Population Health Science and am Program Director of a HRSA-funded T32 in Primary Care Research. I have successfully mentored numerous faculty, fellows, residents and students. And I direct a course in health policy for senior medical students at NYU.
I was a HPF 2009-10 and worked on the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee the year we passed the ACA. I also worked on GME and other Medicare hospital financing policies. I Direct the Leadership in Health Policy (LEAHP) Program at the Society of General Internal Medicine, a national, year-long career development program in health policy and advocacy for GIM fellows and early career faculty.
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