2.Brian Schwartz

Brian Schwartz, MD

Co-Director
Professor of Medicine; Division of Infectious Diseases

Brian Schwartz is a physician specializing in the treatment of infectious diseases, specifically the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infections in immunocompromised patients. He serves as the Associate Chair of Education for the Department of Medicine. He previously served as the Program Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship at UCSF and the Course Director for the Pathogens and Host Defense block in the School of Medicine. He was the inaugural Chair of the Medical Education Community of Practice for the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Chair of the Microbiology/Immunology Item Writing Committee for the National Board of Medical Examiners. Between 2014-2019 he held the Gold-Headed Cane Endowed Teaching Chair for Internal Medicine. He also serves as a contributing editor to the Sanford Guide of Antimicrobial Therapy.

Interests: Mentorship, faculty development, medical education in some medical specialties, running, and fishing.

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Publications: 

Skills, Not Just Knowledge: Infectious Diseases (ID) Fellows' Recommendations Regarding Antimicrobial Stewardship Training.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Wasson MK, Luther VP, Armstrong WS, Schwartz BS, Shnekendorf R, Logan A, Bennani K, Spicer JO

It's All in the Timing.

The New England journal of medicine

Beagle AJ, Sunwoo BY, Olin RL, Schwartz BS, Block BL

In host evolution of beta lactam resistance during active treatment for Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia.

Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

Spottiswoode N, Hao S, Sanchez-Guerrero E, Detweiler AM, Mekonen H, Neff N, Macmillan H, Schwartz BS, Engel J, DeRisi JL, Miller SA, Langelier CR

Tuberculid reactions: A multi-institution cohort study from 2 academic medical centers in the United States.

JAAD international

Jacobson R, Gutierrez RA, Ghatnekar S, Virji AZ, Schwartz BS, Gensler LS, Haemel A, Frangos JE

Cutaneous tuberculosis: A multi-institution cohort study from 2 academic medical centers in the United States.

JAAD international

Gutierrez RA, Jacobson R, Ghatnekar S, Virji AZ, Schwartz BS, Gensler LS, Haemel A, Frangos JE

Response to Letter: Clinician Educator and Clinician Researcher Collaborations.

Journal of general internal medicine

Chang A, Schwartz BS, Fernandez A

Evaluation of the Infectious Diseases Society of America's Core Antimicrobial Stewardship Curriculum for Infectious Diseases Fellows.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Spicer JO, Armstrong WS, Schwartz BS, Abbo LM, Advani SD, Barsoumian AE, Beeler C, Bennani K, Holubar M, Huang M, Ince D, Justo JA, Lee MSL, Logan A, MacDougall C, Nori P, Ohl C, Patel PK, Pottinger PS, Shnekendorf R, Stack C, Van Schooneveld TC, Willis ZI, Zhou Y, Luther VP

A single center evaluation of applicant experiences in virtual interviews across eight internal medicine subspecialty fellowship programs.

Medical education online

Huppert LA, Hsu G, Elnachef N, Flint L, Frank JA, Gensler LS, Hsiao EC, Khanna RR, Qasim A, Schwartz BS, Widera E, Zapata C, Babik JM

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Training Pathways in Residency: A National Survey of Curricula and Outcomes.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Budak JZ, Sears DA, Wood BR, Spach DH, Armstrong WS, Dhanireddy S, Teherani A, Schwartz BS

Guiding Academic Clinician Educators at Research-Intensive Institutions: a Framework for Chairs, Chiefs, and Mentors.

Journal of general internal medicine

Chang A, Schwartz BS, Harleman E, Johnson M, Walter LC, Fernandez A

Virtual Interviews at Graduate Medical Education Training Programs: Determining Evidence-Based Best Practices.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Huppert LA, Hsiao EC, Cho KC, Marquez C, Chaudhry RI, Frank J, Goglin SE, Hsu G, Kathpalia P, Khanna R, Kompala T, Rao MN, Bower BA, Trafas V, Santhosh L, Schwartz BS, Babik JM

Following the Script: An Exploratory Study of the Therapeutic Reasoning Underlying Physicians' Choice of Antimicrobial Therapy.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Abdoler EA, O'Brien BC, Schwartz BS

Clinical outcomes and serologic response in solid organ transplant recipients with COVID-19: A case series from the United States.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Fung M, Chiu CY, DeVoe C, Doernberg SB, Schwartz BS, Langelier C, Henrich TJ, Yokoe D, Davis J, Hays SR, Chandran S, Kukreja J, Ng D, Prostko J, Taylor R, Reyes K, Bainbridge E, Bond A, Chin-Hong P, Babik JM

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Preterm Pregnant Patient With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Obstetrics and gynecology

Blauvelt CA, Chiu C, Donovan AL, Prahl M, Shimotake TK, George RB, Schwartz BS, Farooqi NA, Ali SS, Cassidy A, Gonzalez JM, Gaw SL

Response to: Is Burnout Infectious? Understanding Drivers of Burnout and Job Satisfaction Among Academic Infectious Diseases Physicians.

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Budak JZ, Brickman CE, Abdoler EA, Wallender EK, Mulliken JS, Kerkhoff AD, Lampiris H, Babik JM, Koss CA, Schwartz BS

A Multi-Institution Collaboration to Define Core Content and Design Flexible Curricular Components for a Foundational Medical School Course: Implications for National Curriculum Reform.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Chen SF, Deitz J, Batten JN, DeCoste-Lopez J, Adam M, Alspaugh JA, Amieva MR, Becker P, Boslett B, Carline J, Chin-Hong P, Engle DL, Hayward KN, Nevins A, Porwal A, Pottinger PS, Schwartz BS, Smith S, Sow M, Teherani A, Prober CG

Management and clinical outcomes after lung transplantation in patients with pre-transplant Mycobacterium abscessus infection: A single center experience.

Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society

Perez AA, Singer JP, Schwartz BS, Chin-Hong P, Shah RJ, Kleinhenz ME, Gao Y, Venado A, Leard LE, Golden JA, Kukreja J, Greenland JR, Hays SR

Pharmacodynamic Study of Miransertib in Individuals with Proteus Syndrome.

American journal of human genetics

Keppler-Noreuil KM, Sapp JC, Lindhurst MJ, Darling TN, Burton-Akright J, Bagheri M, Dombi E, Gruber A, Jarosinski PF, Martin S, Nathan N, Paul SM, Savage RE, Wolters PL, Schwartz B, Widemann BC, Biesecker LG

Antimicrobial Stewardship Training for Infectious Diseases Fellows: Program Directors Identify a Curriculum Need.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Luther VP, Shnekendorf R, Abbo LM, Advani S, Armstrong WS, Barsoumian AE, Beeler CB, Bystritsky R, Cherabuddi K, Cohen S, Hamilton KW, Ince D, Justo JA, Logan A, Lynch JB, Nori P, Ohl CA, Patel PK, Pottinger PS, Schwartz BS, Stack C, Zhou Y

Breakthrough Invasive Fungal Infections on Isavuconazole Prophylaxis and Treatment: What Is Happening in the Real-World Setting?

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Fung M, Schwartz BS, Doernberg SB, Langelier C, Lo M, Graff L, Tan M, Logan AC, Chin-Hong P, Babik JM

Rat Lungworm Infection Associated with Central Nervous System Disease - Eight U.S. States, January 2011-January 2017.

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report

Liu EW, Schwartz BS, Hysmith ND, DeVincenzo JP, Larson DT, Maves RC, Palazzi DL, Meyer C, Custodio HT, Braza MM, Al Hammoud R, Rao S, Qvarnstrom Y, Yabsley MJ, Bradbury RS, Montgomery SP

Rethinking the Educator Portfolio: An Innovative Criteria-Based Model.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Shinkai K, Chen CA, Schwartz BS, Loeser H, Ashe C, Irby DM

Clinical Utility of Diffusion-Weighted Imaging in Spinal Infections.

Clinical neuroradiology

Dumont RA, Keen NN, Bloomer CW, Schwartz BS, Talbott J, Clark AJ, Wilson DM, Chin CT

Visceral and Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Recommendations for Solid Organ Transplant Recipients and Donors.

Transplantation

Clemente WT, Mourão PHO, Lopez-Medrano F, Schwartz BS, García-Donoso C, Torre-Cisneros J

A Call to Action: Infectious Diseases Medical Educators Needed.

The Journal of infectious diseases

Schwartz BS, Chin-Hong PV

Candida auris: An emerging multidrug-resistant pathogen.

International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases

Sears D, Schwartz BS

Chronic Helicobacter cinaedi cellulitis diagnosed by microbial polymerase chain reaction.

JAAD case reports

Matsumoto A, Yeh I, Schwartz B, Rosenblum M, Schmidt TH

An Interprofessional Curriculum on Antimicrobial Stewardship Improves Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Appropriate Antimicrobial Use and Collaboration.

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

MacDougall C, Schwartz BS, Kim L, Nanamori M, Shekarchian S, Chin-Hong PV

Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes Among Individuals With Spinal Implant Infections: A Descriptive Study.

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Baxi SM, Robinson ML, Grill MF, Schwartz BS, Doernberg SB, Liu C

Is It Time for a Coordinated and Longitudinal Approach to Antibiotic Stewardship Education?

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Shekarchian S, Schwartz BS, Teherani A, Irby D, Chin-Hong PV

A Comprehensive Survey of Preclinical Microbiology Curricula Among US Medical Schools.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Melber DJ, Teherani A, Schwartz BS

Immunocompromised Travelers: Demographic Characteristics, Travel Destinations, and Pretravel Health Care from the U.S. Global TravEpiNet Consortium.

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene

Schwartz BS, Rosen J, Han PV, Hynes NA, Hagmann SH, Rao SR, Jentes ES, Ryan ET, LaRocque RC

Create Allies, IDSA Stewardship Commitments Should Prioritize Health Professions Learners.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Schwartz BS, Armstrong WS, Ohl CA, Luther VP

Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections following cosmetic laser procedures: a case report and review of the literature.

Journal of drugs in dermatology : JDD

Berliner JG, Aldabagh B, Mully T, Yu SS, Schwartz BS, Berger TG

Sweet heart: A case of pregnancy-associated acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis with myopericarditis.

JAAD case reports

Yu WY, Manrriquez E, Bhutani T, Chaganti RK, Ruben BS, Schwartz BS, Fox LP

Visceral leishmaniasis-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in a traveler returning from a pilgrimage to the Camino de Santiago.

Journal of travel medicine

Watkins ER, Shamasunder S, Cascino T, White KL, Katrak S, Bern C, Schwartz BS

Management of deep postoperative shoulder infections: is there a role for open biopsy during staged treatment?

Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery

Zhang AL, Feeley BT, Schwartz BS, Chung TT, Ma CB

Considerations for screening live kidney donors for endemic infections: a viewpoint on the UNOS policy.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Levi ME, Kumar D, Green M, Ison MG, Kaul D, Michaels MG, Morris MI, Schwartz BS, Echenique IA, Blumberg EA, AST ID Community of Practice

A therapeutic trial of antituberculous therapy for suspected lupus vulgaris: How long does it take to see clinical improvement?

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Kanada KN, Schwartz BS, Pincus LB, Berger TG, Jacobs RA, Shinkai K

Fatal transplant-associated west nile virus encephalitis and public health investigation-california, 2010.

Transplantation

Rabe IB, Schwartz BS, Farnon EC, Josephson SA, Webber AB, Roberts JP, de Mattos AM, Gallay BJ, van Slyck S, Messenger SL, Yen CJ, Bloch EM, Drew CP, Fischer M, Glaser CA, WNV Transplant Investigation Team

Parasitic infections in solid organ transplantation.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Schwartz BS, Mawhorter SD, AST Infectious Diseases Community of Practice

Scedosporium prolificans pericarditis and mycotic aortic aneurysm in a lung transplant recipient receiving voriconazole prophylaxis.

Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society

Sayah DM, Schwartz BS, Kukreja J, Singer JP, Golden JA, Leard LE

Rasamsonia argillacea pulmonary and aortic graft infection in an immune-competent patient.

Journal of clinical microbiology

Doyon JB, Sutton DA, Theodore P, Dhillon G, Jones KD, Thompson EH, Fu J, Wickes BL, Koehler JE, Schwartz BS

Assessment of cytomegalovirus-specific cell-mediated immunity for the prediction of cytomegalovirus disease in high-risk solid-organ transplant recipients: a multicenter cohort study.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Manuel O, Husain S, Kumar D, Zayas C, Mawhorter S, Levi ME, Kalpoe J, Lisboa L, Ely L, Kaul DR, Schwartz BS, Morris MI, Ison MG, Yen-Lieberman B, Sebastian A, Assi M, Humar A

Diagnosis and management of tuberculosis in transplant donors: a donor-derived infections consensus conference report.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Morris MI, Daly JS, Blumberg E, Kumar D, Sester M, Schluger N, Kim SH, Schwartz BS, Ison MG, Humar A, Singh N, Michaels M, Orlowski JP, Delmonico F, Pruett T, John GT, Kotton CN

Concurrent epidemics of skin and soft tissue infection and bloodstream infection due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Tattevin P, Schwartz BS, Graber CJ, Volinski J, Bhukhen A, Bhukhen A, Mai TT, Vo NH, Dang DN, Phan TH, Basuino L, Perdreau-Remington F, Chambers HF, Diep BA

In the clinic. Travel medicine.

Annals of internal medicine

Schwartz BS, Larocque RC, Ryan ET

Global TravEpiNet: a national consortium of clinics providing care to international travelers--analysis of demographic characteristics, travel destinations, and pretravel healthcare of high-risk US international travelers, 2009-2011.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

LaRocque RC, Rao SR, Lee J, Ansdell V, Yates JA, Schwartz BS, Knouse M, Cahill J, Hagmann S, Vinetz J, Connor BA, Goad JA, Oladele A, Alvarez S, Stauffer W, Walker P, Kozarsky P, Franco-Paredes C, Dismukes R, Rosen J, Hynes NA, Jacquerioz F, McLellan S, Hale D, Sofarelli T, Schoenfeld D, Marano N, Brunette G, Jentes ES, Yanni E, Sotir MJ, Ryan ET, Global TravEpiNet Consortium

Expansion of a unique CD57⁺NKG2Chi natural killer cell subset during acute human cytomegalovirus infection.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Lopez-Vergès S, Milush JM, Schwartz BS, Pando MJ, Jarjoura J, York VA, Houchins JP, Miller S, Kang SM, Norris PJ, Nixon DF, Lanier LL

Coccidioidomycosis during pregnancy: a review and recommendations for management.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Bercovitch RS, Catanzaro A, Schwartz BS, Pappagianis D, Watts DH, Ampel NM

Organ donor screening practices for Trypanosoma cruzi infection among US Organ Procurement Organizations.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Schwartz BS, Paster M, Ison MG, Chin-Hong PV

Screening and treatment of chagas disease in organ transplant recipients in the United States: recommendations from the chagas in transplant working group.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Chin-Hong PV, Schwartz BS, Bern C, Montgomery SP, Kontak S, Kubak B, Morris MI, Nowicki M, Wright C, Ison MG

Interleukin-12 receptor β1 deficiency predisposing to disseminated Coccidioidomycosis.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Vinh DC, Schwartz B, Hsu AP, Miranda DJ, Valdez PA, Fink D, Lau KP, Long-Priel D, Kuhns DB, Uzel G, Pittaluga S, Hoover S, Galgiani JN, Holland SM

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 infection in patients with hematologic malignancy.

Emerging infectious diseases

Liu C, Schwartz BS, Vallabhaneni S, Nixon M, Chin-Hong PV, Miller SA, Chiu C, Damon L, Drew WL

Possible neuropsychiatric reaction to high-dose oseltamivir during acute 2009 H1N1 influenza A infection.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Nakamura K, Schwartz BS, Lindegårdh N, Keh C, Guglielmo BJ

Thoracic CT findings of novel influenza A (H1N1) infection in immunocompromised patients.

Emergency radiology

Elicker BM, Schwartz BS, Liu C, Chen EC, Miller SA, Chiu CY, Webb WR

Development of daptomycin-susceptible, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia during high-dose daptomycin therapy.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Koplowicz YB, Schwartz BS, Guglielmo BJ

Cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by Cladophialophora bantiana in a scar after treatment with intralesional corticosteroid injections.

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Pincus LB, Schwartz BS, Cunningham G, Saeed S, Berger TG

Doxycycline, not minocycline, induces its own resistance in multidrug-resistant, community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone USA300.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Schwartz BS, Graber CJ, Diep BA, Basuino L, Perdreau-Remington F, Chambers HF

A population-based study of the incidence and molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease in San Francisco, 2004-2005.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Liu C, Graber CJ, Karr M, Diep BA, Basuino L, Schwartz BS, Enright MC, O'Hanlon SJ, Thomas JC, Perdreau-Remington F, Gordon S, Gunthorpe H, Jacobs R, Jensen P, Leoung G, Rumack JS, Chambers HF

Diarrheal epidemics in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during three consecutive floods: 1988, 1998, and 2004.

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene

Schwartz BS, Harris JB, Khan AI, Larocque RC, Sack DA, Malek MA, Faruque AS, Qadri F, Calderwood SB, Luby SP, Ryan ET