Seymour I. Schwartz
Editor Emeritus

Dr. Schwartz, a native of New York City, received his BA from the University of Wisconsin, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his MD from New York University where he was elected to AOA. He served as a resident at Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester from 1950-1957 and has remained a member of the surgery faculty at the University of Rochester. He was awarded a John and Mary Markle Fellowship in Academic Medicine in 1960.

He is the author of more than 200 scientific articles and was the editor-in-chief of the Yearbook of Surgery for 21 years, Contemporary Surgery for 23 years, and co-editor of three editions of Abdominal Operations. He is perhaps best known as the editor-in-chief of the surgical textbook, Principles of Surgery, in its seventh edition. He is also the author of The Mapping of America and The French and Indian War. His newest publication, This Land Is Your Land, will be available October 2000. He has served as vice chair of the American Board of Surgery and on the study section of the National Institutes of Health. He is Past President of the American College of Surgeons and former Chair, Board of Regents of the American College of Surgeons. He is a past president of the Central Surgical Association, the Society for Clinical Surgery, and the American Surgical Association. He is the Distinguished Alumni, Department of Surgery, at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, in Rochester, New York.

Among Dr. Schwartz's many honors are honorary membership in the College of Surgeons of Brazil, the Ecuadorian Surgical Society, the Philippine College of Surgeons, the Mexican Association of Surgeons, the Colombian Surgical Society, the Association of Surgeons of West Africa, the Texas Surgical Society, the Illinois Surgical Society, the Portland Surgical Society, the Los Angeles Surgical Society, the Chicago Surgical Society, and the Phoenix Surgical Society. He is the recipient of many awards and medals in the US and abroad.

Dr. Schwartz is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Antiquarian Society, the Grolier Club, and the International Society of the History of Cartography, and serves on the boards of the Smithsonian Institution and the Philips Society of the Library of Congress.

Revised May 27, 2004

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