Michael W. Schwartz

Dr. Schwartz received his MD from Rush Medical College in 1983 and completed his residency in Medicine at UW in 1986. His fellowship training in Endocrinology and Metabolism, undertaken in the lab of Dr. Daniel Porte, Jr., at UW, was completed in 1990. In addition to clinical teaching and patient care responsibilities at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Dr. Schwartz currently holds two R01 grants and has been continuously funded by the NIH and other sources to study body weight regulatory systems, obesity and diabetes for over 20 years with >185 publications in this area. He serves as Director of the UW Medicine Diabetes and Obesity Center of Excellence, is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, and serves on numerous editorial boards. He is the Director of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) at UW, and is Principle Investigator on an NIH T32 Fellowship Training grant and two NIH R01 awards.