member of more than 20 national dermatologic societies. He has received multiple honorary doctorates. Early life and education Robert Allen Schwartz was born on June 30, 1947, in Oakland, California. He spent his four undergraduate years at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1969. He remained there to earn a Master of Public Health degree in 1970 from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. He then matriculated into the New York Medical College in Manhattan, from which he graduated as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 1974. He trained in dermatology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. He later completed a fellowship in dermatopathology. Schwartz is board certified in dermatology and in diagnostic and laboratory immunology. Academic career Schwartz advanced in academia, from the University of Arizona and the University of California, San Francisco to the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, where in 1983 he became the first permanent head of dermatology, establishing a dermatology residency program in 1984. He is Professor and Dead of dermatology, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He is a Visiting Professor and Scholar of Public Affairs and Administration at the Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration. In 2014 Schwartz began serving on the Rutgers University Board of Trustees. Schwartz is also in his second term as President of the World Health Academy, serving from 2011 to 2012 and 2014 to present, and has been active on National Institutes of Health study sections since 2004. Schwartz has served as Faculty President of the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in 1993 and 1995 and as Chairman of its Committee on Appointments and Promotions twice. He has been involved in many campus activities, including as Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society chapter president and Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Society chapter councilor. He received the Faculty of the Year Award at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in 2002 and has been chosen as Top Doctor multiple times by New York Magazine, Inside Jersey, and Castle-Conolly Guide to Best Physicians. A two-time past president of the Dermatology Section of the New York Academy of Medicine, he has been elected to a third five-year term on the