Education
Bachelor’s Degree – SUNY Binghamton
Medical Degree – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Internship – Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Bronx Municipal Hospital Center
Residency – Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Bronx Municipal Hospital Center (Chief Resident Internal Medicine)
Fellowship – Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center
Board Certifications – Gastroenterology including Maintenance of Certification; Internal Medicine
Honors & Awards
- Best Doctors (NY Metro Area)
- Top Doctors
Specialties & Main Areas of Interest
- GERD
- Liver disease
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Hospital Affiliations
- Jersey Shore University Medical Center/Meridian-Hackensack
- Monmouth Medical Center/ RWJ- Barnabas
Other Appointments
- Shore Gastroenterology Associates, Board Member Allied Digestive Health Associates
- Medical Director, Ocean Surgical Pavilion
Research
- Prior research on liver disease and hepatic fibrosis (fellowship)
Fun Facts
Dr. Schwartz enjoys traveling and spending time with his family. His older son, Brian, has completed his internal medicine residency in Boston and will return to New Jersey for training in Cardiology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center. His younger son, Jeff, has also completed his internal medicine residency in Boston and is heading to the Cleveland Clinic for fellowship training in Gastroenterology
Conditions & Diseases Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Achalasia
- Acid Reflux
- Anorectal Disease
- Bacteria and Foodborne Illness
- Barrett's Esophagus
- Celiac Disease
- Chronic Diarrhea
- Clostridioides Difficile
- Colon Cancer
- Colon Disease
- Colon Polyps
- Constipation
- Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis
- Difficulty Swallowing (Dysphagia)
- Diverticulosis/Diverticulitis
- Esophageal Cancer
- Esophagitis and Stricture
- Fatty Liver
- Fecal Incontinence
- Gallbladder Disease
- Gallstones
- Gas
- Gastric Cancer
- Gastritis
- Gastrointestinal Malignancies
- Gastroparesis
- Genetic Colon Cancer Syndromes
- GERD
- Heartburn
- Helicobacter Pylori/Peptic Ulcer
- Hemochromatosis
- Hemorrhoids
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- Hernias (Abdominal, Groin, and Hiatal)
- High-Risk Colon Cancer Screening
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Including Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
- Iron Deficiency Anemia
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Jaundice
- Lactose Intolerance
- Laryngopharyngeal Reflux
- Liver Cirrhosis
- Liver Disease
- Nausea and Vomiting
- Obesity
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Pancreatic Cysts
- Peptic Ulcer Disease (PUD)
- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
- Proctitis
- Rectal Bleeding
- Silent Reflux
- Stomach Ulcers
Procedures Performed
- Anorectal Manometry
- Bacterial Overgrowth Test
- Barrett’s Treatment
- Bravo pH Study
- Breath Testing, including Lactose, Lactulose, Fructose Testing
- Capsule Endoscopy
- Cholangioscopy
- Colonoscopy
- Complex Polypectomy
- Diagnostic & Therapeutic Colonoscopy
- Diagnostic & Therapeutic Endoscopy
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection
- Endoscopic Pseudocyst Drainage
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)
- Endoscopic Ultrasound with Fine Needle Aspiration
- Enteral Stents
- ERCP
- Esophageal Dilation/Testing
- Esophageal High Resolution Manometry and 24 Hr pH Impedance Testing
- Esophageal Manometry
- Fecal Transplant
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy and IRC
- Hemorrhoid Banding
- Hemorrhoid Treatments (IRC and Banding)
- Infusion
- Lactose Intolerance Breath Test
- Lactose Tolerance Test
- Luminal Stent
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Jejunostomy (PEJ)
- Polypectomy
- Push Enteroscopy
- Radiofrequency Ablation of Barrett's
- SpyGlass Cholangioscopy
- Upper Endoscopy
- Upper GI Endoscopy (EGD)
- Urea Breath Test (UBT)
- Variceal Banding
- Video Capsule Endoscopy
