Schwartz said, explaining that top quality candidates of are drawn to programs that already have top quality residents. “It takes years to build a residency program,” Dr. Over the years, he and residency coordinator Jane Pometti built up the program, recruiting residents from the country’s best schools, fostering the positive relationships between faculty and residents and offering the residents a richer clinical experience. He revamped the program, bringing all residency positions into the national match and establishing criteria for filtering applications electronically. Schwartz to take over the troubled residency training program in 1997.
In 1995 the residents voted him Teacher of the Year, an honor he has received twice since. Two years later he became the director of the outpatient department where he gave high priority to training residents. Schwartz returned to Stony Brook as an attending physician, splitting his time between CPEP and the outpatient department. He set up offices in Mineola and Huntington joined the staffs of Huntington Hospital, Winthrop University Hospital and Peninsula Counseling Center and joined the staff of Nassau County’s Division of Forensic Services, where he established himself as an expert in forensic psychiatry. After a few years, he left the department to practice community psychiatry. Schwartz was assigned to the Northport VA Medical Center. In 1983 he was the lead author of an article in Science that described an elevated rate of glucose metabolism in the brains of young people with Down syndrome. Schwartz was engaged in some of the first studies of the human brain using CT and PET scanning.
Schwartz came to Stony Brook from the National Institute on Aging in 1983.
He will leave Stony Brook on August 1 and take up his new responsibilities on August 15, 2014.ĭr. Schwartz has been the department’s Director of Residency Training. JMichael Schwartz, MD is leaving the Department of Psychiatry at Stony Brook University to become the director of psychiatric services at Huntington Hospital.
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