William J. Schwartz
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William Joseph Schwartz (born March 28, 1950) is an American neurologist and scientist who serves as Professor and Associate Chair for Research and Education in the neurology department at the University of Texas Dell Medical School. His work on the neurobiology of circadian timekeeping has focused on the mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus.[1] Schwartz demonstrated that the suprachiasmatic nucleus is rhythmic in vivo using a 2-deoxyglucose radioactive marker for functional brain imaging.[2] As of 2014, he is editor of the Journal of Biological Rhythms.[3]
Schwartz was born on March 28, 1950, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1959, he moved to southern California with his family. He began his undergraduate education at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and, in 1971, finished his Bachelor of Science degree in biological sciences at the University of California, Irvine.[4] He completed his M.D. in 1974 and a medical internship from 1974 to 1975 both at the University of California, San Francisco. From 1975–1978, Schwartz did a research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health.[1] He finished his neurology residency training (1978–1981) at the University of California, San Francisco.
Career and appointments
Following his residency training, Schwartz joined the faculties of Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital between 1981 and 1986. Schwartz then moved to the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he held dual positions in the Neurology Department at the School of Medicine, and in the Neuroscience Department at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.[1]
Schwartz has held visiting fellowships at several universities including but not limited to the Leiden University Medical Center (2005) , Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, University of Auckland (2012), and Washington University in St. Louis (2016).[5]
As of 2017, Schwartz is the Associate Chair of Research and Education Neurology at the Dell Medical School.[5]
Schwartz serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biological Rhythms[6] from 2014–present, and was previously elected as the Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Chronobiology (1993) and President of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (2004–2006).
