Mark Schwartz, MD

Mark Schwartz, MD, has been selected by the Association for Clinical Research Training (ACRT) to receive its prestigious Distinguished Educator Award. The award is given to individuals with distinguished careers as clinical investigators who are innovators in clinical research training, outstanding mentors, and national leaders in clinical research education programs, issues, and funding.

Dr. Schwartz has a long track record of success leading research training programs. Since 1995 he has led NYU’s HRSA-funded General Internal Medicine (GIM) Fellowship Program, which has trained over twenty fellows with a focus on Medical Education research. 

He developed and leads NYU School of Medicine’s Masters of Science in Medical Education program. One of relatively few such programs nationally, its year long curriculum in teaching theory, curriculum design, academic leadership, and research methods serves as the core curriculum for the GIM Fellowship Program. 

Dr. Schwartz also directs the CDC-funded Fellowship in Medicine and Public Health Research, aiming to prepare clinician-researchers to address problems at the interface of medicine and population health. Dr. Schwartz is also Co-Director of NYU’s NIH (K30) Clinical Research Training Program which, like the Fellowship in Medicine and Public Health Research, awards a Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation. The K30 program, currently with 16 trainees from 8 disciplines at NYU, is now in its 3rd year. 

With core leadership roles in each of these three research training programs (GIM Fellowship, K30, and Fellowship in Medicine and Public Health Research), Dr. Schwartz has great depth in post-graduate training programs that combine rigorous training in research methods, biostatistics, epidemiology, and related disciplines with mentored research.

The award was presented at the ACRT's Annual Meeting, held in Washington, DC, on March 25-26th.