Keynote Address: Donald Schwaz, MD, MPH
Start Date
5-11-2010 1:00 PM
End Date
5-11-2010 1:15 PM
Description
Dr. Donald Schwarz is Deputy Mayor for Health and Opportunity and Health Commissioner for the City of Philadelphia. Before entering government service, he was Vice Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Deputy Physician-in-Chief and Craig-Dalsimer Division Chief for Adolescent medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatrics in the University of Pennsylvania Schools of Medicine and Nursing at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He was also a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at Penn.
Dr. Schwarz was an active researcher in the area of adolescent risk behaviors for over 22 years, and received both public and private funding for work that has examined the issues of injury and its prevention in urban, minority communities, public policy approaches to adolescent violence, and physician- and nurse-practice-based interventions to improve outcomes for high-risk infants. Dr. Schwarz served for four years as President of the Board of Directors of Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth, has been a member of the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association, and is a Board member of numerous local and regional community agencies.
Dr. Schwarz is a graduate of Brown University where is received an AB in Biology. He received an MD and MPH in Health Care Organization, and an MBA in Health Care Administration at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Audio: Keynote address (13 minutes and 40 seconds)
Keynote Address: Donald Schwaz, MD, MPH
Dr. Donald Schwarz is Deputy Mayor for Health and Opportunity and Health Commissioner for the City of Philadelphia. Before entering government service, he was Vice Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Deputy Physician-in-Chief and Craig-Dalsimer Division Chief for Adolescent medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatrics in the University of Pennsylvania Schools of Medicine and Nursing at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He was also a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at Penn.
Dr. Schwarz was an active researcher in the area of adolescent risk behaviors for over 22 years, and received both public and private funding for work that has examined the issues of injury and its prevention in urban, minority communities, public policy approaches to adolescent violence, and physician- and nurse-practice-based interventions to improve outcomes for high-risk infants. Dr. Schwarz served for four years as President of the Board of Directors of Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth, has been a member of the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association, and is a Board member of numerous local and regional community agencies.
Dr. Schwarz is a graduate of Brown University where is received an AB in Biology. He received an MD and MPH in Health Care Organization, and an MBA in Health Care Administration at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
