Biography

J. Sanford Schwartz, M.D. is Professor of Medicine and Health Management and Economics at the School of Medicine and The Wharton School, and Co-Director of Penn's Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. Former Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (Penn's University-wide center for health services and policy research), Dr. Schwartz is a clinically oriented health services researcher focusing on assessment of medical interventions and practices, medical decision making, and the adoption and diffusion of medical innovation, with an emphasis on cost-quality tradeoffs and disparities in care. He directs three courses in clinical evaluative sciences and health care systems, co-directs four institutional NIH health services research and clinical epidemiology training grants, and is a frequent mentor of Health Services Research fellows and junior faculty. Dr. Schwartz has served as an advisor and consultant to a wide range of public and private sector groups, including federal and international agencies (NIH, CDC, IOM, NAS, DOD, FDA, WHO), non profit groups (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, John A. Hartford Foundation, AAMC, and NCQA), and pharmaceutical, insurance, and managed care organizations.