Robert A. Schwartz

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Robert A. Schwartz
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Member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Incumbent
Assumed office
March 14, 2019

A partial list of Schwartz's honors and awards.

Decorations

Orders and awards

Award or decorationCountryDatePlaceNoteRef
Hieronymus Fracastorus MedalFlag of Italy.svg  Italy Capri Awarded at the 31st Italian National Congress. [2]
Academia Medica Wratislaviensis Polonia MedalFlag of Poland.svg  Poland Wrocław The highest award bestowed by Wrocław Medical University. [2]
Stefan G. Nicolau MedalFlag of Romania.svg  Romania Bucharest The highest award given by the Romanian Society of Dermatology. [2]
International Corresponding Membership in the Amazonian Academy of MedicineFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil Manaus [19]
Amazonian Academy of Medicine MedalFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil Manaus The highest award given by the Amazonian Academy of Medicine. [19]

Honorary

Honorary doctorates

InstitutionDegreeLocationDateNoteRef
Tbilisi Medical Academy Doctor of Science Flag of Georgia.svg Tbilisi, Georgia "for his important contributions to the field of medicine, including original work in the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and Kaposi's sarcoma." [20]
China Medical University hon. prof. Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Shenyang, ChinaConferred by the CMU president in an official ceremony. [21]

Personal life

In 1984, Schwartz married Camila Krysicka, a dermatologist and academic. Their son Edmund Janniger was an advisor to Polish Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz for a short period of time in 2015. [22]

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<i>Skin Cancer: Recognition and Management</i> Skin cancer

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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. Archived from the original on 2015-09-30. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Leadership & Staff". World Health Academy. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
  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. 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. S2CID   35324084.
  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. ↑ "Members & Staff". HIV.gov. United States Department of Health and Human Services. 14 March 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  19. 1 2 Pecher, Simão (2011). "Médico estrangeiro é homenageado em Manaus". Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia. 15 (1).
  20. ↑ "Rutgers Professor Robert A. Schwartz Receives Honorary Doctorate from TMA". Tbilisi Medical Academy. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  21. ↑ 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. doi:10.1111/ijd.12131_2. ISSN   0011-9059. S2CID   73381269.
  22. ↑ 20-letni Edmund Janniger doradcą Macierewicza w MON. Kim jest? - Wiadomości

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Asha Samant
 Member of the Rutgers University Board of Trustees
2014–present		Incumbent
Government offices
Preceded by
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 Member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
2019–present		Incumbent
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