Dr. Schwartz, a 1994 graduate of the Wayne State University School of Medicine, joined St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital’s Cardiology and Cardiovascular team in September. He specializes in minimally invasive valve repair and replacement, coronary artery surgery and the surgical correction of thoracic aneurysms. He joins the staff at the hospital’s Elliott M. Estes Heart Institute in Pontiac.
Dr. Schwartz spent 12 years at New York University Medical Center, where he served as assistant professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery in NYU’s School of Medicine.
He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. He received his medical degree from WSU with honors in Surgery, completed an internship and residency in General Surgery at William Beaumont Hospital, and served as a research fellow in the thoracic surgery myocellular biology research laboratory at the U-M Medical Center. He completed a two-year fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the NYU School of Medicine and is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.